SBC won the tender to upgrade the Soils and Propagation Research Facilities at DPI/CSIRO Australian Cotton Research Institute in Narrabri. The project totalling $5.1 million.

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Works included:

• Administration building upgrade

  • New male and female toilets 

  • New first aid and access toilet

  • Refurbishment to the kitchenette and conference room

  • Reception area was also refurbished

  • New lighting, mechanical and hydraulic works

• Propagation building – demolished the old insectory building making way for the new propagation building

  • Screw piers

  • Concrete slab 

  • Structural and light steel framing

  • Colourbond cladding and roofing 

  • Laboratory Equipment 

    • RO units

    • Growth chambers

    • Lab gas’

    • Stainless steel benches

    • Ovens

  • Power upgrades

• Soils building

  • Re-purposing the structural portal frame and brought it up to new structural standards

  • Re-cladding of the building

  • Installation of multiple cool rooms

  • Specialised lab equipment

  • Lab gas’

  • State of the art dust extraction systems

  • Internal linings are all insulated cladding – cool room panels. 

  • New services