Current Business Partners

Camatic seating specialise in the manufacture, supply, and installation of lecture theatre, ergonomic, executive, and versatile seating. We have a vast experience in dealing with higher educational institutions throughout Australia.

Our showrooms are located in Balmain in Sydney, and Carlton in Melbourne. We have agents representing our products in W.A., ACT., SA., and QLD. All our products hold a 5 year warranty, and are Australian made, our manufacturing facility is located at Wantirna (outside Melbourne).

Recently we released the "Quantum" seating system with optional retractable tablet, or pedestal mounted tablet called "Lectra". This has been very well received in the market place, and a large volume of seating has already been installed in all states of Australia.

Campus Living Villages (CLV) specialises in delivering tailored accommodation solutions for tertiary institutions in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and United Kingdom, working with over 50 university campuses worldwide. 

Capital Insight is an independent service provider and leader in the planning and delivery of high profile, small to large scale, complex projects and programs of work. These usually have significant community, environmental and urban benefits, and are predominantly in the education, research and health sectors. 

Cardax FT is a comprehensive Microsoft® Windows® based security system enabling you to control who goes where and when onsite. Cardax FT integrates access control and alarms management, intruder alarm monitoring, remote digital imaging, intercom, and PhotoID badging. The system collects real time data and can be integrated with other systems, for both security requirements (e.g. DVR / CCTV and building and facilities management (including HR and ERP systems).

Residing on an organisation’s IT network, Cardax FT holds extensive information about cardholders and the site. The fact that it has been designed to share this data with other organisational management systems, including resource scheduling systems, makes it particularly attractive to end-users in the tertiary sector. Cardax FT is flexible and scalable and backwardly compatible, meaning it won't become obsolete. Cardax systems are well proven in the education environment, having been installed in approximately 90% of Australia and New Zealand's universities.

A unique high level integration between Cardax FT and Salto off-line readers, known as CommCard, delivers cost effective, electronic access control. It is particularly suited to student accommodation access management and for doors that do not require real time monitoring.

 

Changing Directions is a management consulting firm providing Business and Government with cost effective services and advice on how to implement sustainable work practices. We have been assisting client’s measure and monitor their productivity and contract performance for over 10 years and in this time the consistent questions we encounter are:

• How do we ensure the contractor we choose is capable of delivering a sustainable service solution that meets our commitment to reducing our Carbon Footprint?
• How do we build performance management into our contracts/tender documents?
• With tight economic times ahead how can we re-engineer our contracts without sacrificing service standards? 

DEGW is an international consulting business focused on the changing nature of work and its impact on people, process and place. Our approach integrates research, strategy and design.

Executive Essentials serves clients to transform their business results by improving their performance in 3 key areas:

 * Planning, Strategy and Organisational Change

* Customer and Service Focus

* Leveraging their Information Technology assets

 Our services range from workshop facilitation, coaching and training through to consulting and program management, enabling our clients to progressively develop an understanding of how we can serve them best.

Gray Puksand is a national design practice with a focus on producing excellent outcomes for our clients. Our commitment to research through our in-house Innovation Programme, ensures our projects are developed within a knowledge database of world’s best practice.

John Wardle Architects is a Melbourne based architectural practice working across a wide range of project types and scales. It fosters a collaborative studio environment to excite and develop these ideas and is noted for the degree of intensity applied to design detail regardless of project scale.

Current projects include single houses, apartment towers, university buildings and commercial office towers. They are in a range of locations from the remote coastal edge to suburban campuses and significant inner city sites across Australia.

The Practice has been the recipients of 35 Professional and Industry Awards of which 25 are RAIA Awards including two prestigious Sir Zelman Cowen Awards for Public Architecture and the Victorian Architecture Medal.

Most recently, John Wardle Architects was awarded the 2006 RAIA Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for the Kaurna Building at the University of South Australia.

Latitude Architects is a mid size practice with extensive experience in the development of quality education and research environments. Our experience is informed by a strong background in higher education planning, design and facilities management.

Leighton Contractors provides a comprehensive range of facilities management services developed to optimise the performance of property and infrastructure assets critical to business success. 

MATRIX is a respected and experienced Queensland-owned builder, delivering quality projects on time and budget.  With offices in Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville, we have been operating throughout Queensland for two decades, providing high-quality project management, design and construction services to clients across a range of industry sectors including public works and infrastructure, education, student accommodation, health and aged care, affordable housing, residential and resort, commercial and retail and refurbishment and renovation.

Our 130-strong team offers superior service beyond final completion. More than just a construction company, Matrix has extensive experience in project management, planning, feasibilities, site selection and needs analysis, as well as the delivery of finished built products. Matrix also has strong capability, local knowledge and desire to deliver projects in regional areas and islands off the Australian coast.

Matrix has always contributed a percentage of our annual profits to charitable organisations, for research and other worthwhile purposes. In addition to financial contributions, we have developed outstanding relationships with organisations such as the Cancer Council Queensland, Hear & Say Centre, Operation Smile and Make a Wish Foundation. Our 2008 Gala Ball raised over $100,000 for Cancer Council Queensland which has been provided to the Mater Medical Research Institute for cancer research.

Mosaic was formed in South Australia in 1998 to address problems of optimisation, data analysis and reporting. Its primary market comprises organisations that are currently collecting or have collected significant amounts of data, and wish to use this data:

• to aid in business planning,
• to make more efficient use of existing resources, and
• to better realise organisational goals.

The company has begun to operate on an international basis, and is committed to creating solutions not only for the domestic Australian market but also for markets overseas.

Mosaic applies high technical skills together with expertise in educational and corporate administration to develop innovative and cost effective solutions for entrenched or emerging business problems. Technologies we have developed assist the automation of administrative tasks to enhance the quality of service delivery. These include the development of expert system structures, and reporting and analysis software tools. Development work has been undertaken in conjunction with products by Microsoft and Oracle as well as MySQL, and includes work on a range of platforms including Unix/Linux, Windows and MacOS.

The company's software development plans are focused on a commitment to the delivery of cost effective solutions for the educational sector which, in most countries, is less well resourced than the corporate sector.

   During the 1950s, Programmed pioneered the concept of long term property maintenance. Today, this concept is utilised by over 6,000 customers throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Our customer base extends across a diverse range of industries, from commercial and educational institutions to health and manufacturing. 

We have developed a wide range of services, skills and an experienced workforce, who are the key to our success. Today, Programmed Group is a widely respected public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Thinc Project’s is an international management consultancy that specialises in projects. We advise facilitate and delivery property projects. We have offices throughout Australia and in the Middle East and UK. 

 Woodhead Education Portfolio Capability

Xact Project Consultants is a Canberra based consulting business, which specialises in providing independent “client side” project and management consulting service.. Our core business is to assist government and private sector clients with every aspect of delivering capital works projects, from providing strategic advice during the earliest conceptual stages, through the delivery phases, to commercial closure and resolution of all outstanding issues. We also provide comprehensive services in relation to property acquisition and property management.