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. 

A global full-spectrum carbon management company, Carbon Planet offers organisations the opportunity to remove their contribution to climate change through comprehensive carbon emissions assessments and targeted energy and emissions reduction strategies.  Carbon Planet's team of PhD engineers, senior scientists and business analysts expertly combine scientific rigour, industry experience and business insights to deliver an integrated suite of carbon management services including:

• Education & Awareness: providing awareness and understanding of legislative requirements and the broader impacts of the carbon economy
• Measurement:  carbon footprinting services including NGER compliance and full scope assessments
• Management: insight into the commercial impacts an organization faces due to their footprint, risk and opportunity analysis
• Minimisation:  identification of measures to reduce your footprint
• Carbon Commerce & Offsetting: scientific assessment of potential carbon credit generating projects and tailored carbon offset purchasing management, including GreenPower™.

• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Technical Guidelines 2008 v1.1 
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development's GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards
• ISO14064-1 Greenhouse Gases
• Australian Energy Audits Standard AS/NZ 3598:2000

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? 

Currie & Brown provides a diverse range of Quantity Surveying and Strategic Asset Management consultancy services specifically tailored to the requirements of the Facilities Manager. Our expertise covers the total asset life-cycle and includes capital works, operations and maintenance (including contracting) and technical advice and analysis of PPP/PFI opportunities.

Our Australian operations include offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. We have also established alliances with firms in Canberra, Darwin, Townsville, and New Zealand.

Internationally, Currie & Brown currently operates in 50 countries employing approximately 1,500 technical staff.

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.

URS is a team of engineers, environmental scientists, planners, project managers, risk management and sustainability specialists operating in New Zealand and Australia.

We provide professional consulting services to public and private sector clients as part of the URS global network of 300 offices in 20 countries.

We have been working with tertiary organisations in Australasia over several decades, offering a broad range of services including building and facilities management engineering, planning, environmental and sustainability services.

Our team has a proven track record of delivering smart, cost-effective and sustainable solutions, tailored to particular client needs, across a wide range of challenges in the built and natural environment. Integrity, professional excellence and environmental and social responsibility are our core values.

URS has offices in:
New Zealand – Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch.
Australia – Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Broken Hill, NSW; Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT; Melbourne, VIC; Newcastle, NSW; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW; Tatura, VIC
Asia - Shanghai, China; Jakarta, Indonesia; Singapore.

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.

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. 

Leishman Associates are a project management company, specialising in conferences and events. When delivering conferences for their clients, around Australia and in New Zealand, Leishman Associates ensure that professional standards are met at all times. Having delivered the Tertiary Education Management Conference for TEFMA and ATEM in 2004; 2006; 2007, Leishman Associates are also managing the 2008 conference in Christchurch and 2009 in Darwin; and are currently working with TEFMA on the annual workshop program.

If you have an involvement in any event, conference or seminar, and would like some guidance or advice, please phone

Lyons is one of Australia's leading architectural and planning firms specialising in the design of major educational facilities and campuses. Lyons is also one of Australia's most innovative practices, and in 2002 received the Victorian Architecture Medal for a new project at Victoria University's St Albans Campus.

Lyons offers comprehensive and integrated professional services in all aspects of educational design and planning, from initial needs assessments, managing stakeholder input, concept planning and masterplanning through to detailed design, documentation, construction services and commissioning.

Lyons was established in 1995 and has grown to a firm of over 40 in-house professional staff. The Company has 3 Directors, Corbett Lyon, Cameron Lyon and Carey Lyon and they all play a leading hands-on role in all of our projects. Our specialist educational planning team includes Practice Principals Neil Appleton and Adrian Stanic.

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.

Pacom's seamless integration between access control, alarm and video enables you to effectively manage your business & commercial security system network from one central location. The scalability of the system makes it suitable for smaller sites, while still allowing you to grow into global integrated enterprise solutions with a network of thousands of locations.

Paul Morgan Architects has emerged as one of Australia's most innovative architectural practices. The practice specialises in educational design for universities and technical colleges and has also completed residential and urban design, master planning, commercial, government and library projects in Melbourne, regional Victoria and Asia.

PMA has been published extensively in Australia and abroad. In 2007 The Cape Schanck House was one of twenty projects nominated globally for the biennial Zumtobel Award, for outstanding sustainable contributions to architecture and humanity and was also the recipient of the RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture, Australia's highest residential design accolade. The practice has exhibited widely and was recently included in the Australian Pavilion at the prestigious 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

The business of Programmed Management Services Limited was founded in 1951 and is Australia's leading property maintenance group. We provide a growing range of property maintenance services and partnerships with commercial, industrial, institutional and government property owners in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Programmed Maintenance Services, with our 2,000 employees, maintain over 60,000 buildings and structures for more than 5,500 customers across a network of over 50 branches. The company operates;

The largest contract painting and signage business in Australia and New Zealand;

A rapidly-growing contract painting business in the UK;

An integrated building services business which maintains a range of property assets in Australia;

One of Australia's top three grounds management businesses;
An infrastructure services business providing infrastructure management, assurance and total estate management services, trading as Infraserv;

An integrated facilities management business that provides a comprehensive range of strategic and tactical consulting and operations management services, trading as Tungsten Group;

An industrial services business, which provides a range of industrial and underground asset maintenance services in Australia.

Rider Levett Bucknall’s long history can be traced back to a small firm of quantity surveyors established in 1785 in Reading, England. Following two centuries of consolidation and growth, three major companies with common strengths and ambitions – Rider Hunt, Levett and Bailey and Bucknall Austin – pooled resources and expertise to form the Rider Levett Bucknall global practice in July 2007.

Russell & Yelland Architects is a SA-based architectural practice, active in the design of learning environments at all levels - primary, secondary and tertiary.
The practice employs significant skills in translating education theories to the built form. This includes the areas of

• master-planning
• space planning
• functional analysis
• architecture
• urban design
• post-occupancy evaluation

The practice employs a collaborative approach in solving design and construction problems, drawing together expertise in space utilisation analysis, teaching activity timetabling and the use of computer-aided facilities management software to optimise space.
Recent awards, working in conjunction with GMB Architects, Canberra, include the 2004 National RAIA award for Sustainable Architecture for Mawson Lakes School, and RAIA SA chapter recognition for the Mawson Centre and the University of SA Garth Boomer Building at Mawson Lakes.
The practice is certified to ISO 9001:2000 and is committed to the principles of Environmentally Sustainable Design, being a member of the national 'Emerald Alliance' of like-minded professional design consultants.

S2F is an organisation dedicated to the delivery of project services to controlled environment industries, focussing on high technology manufacturing, research and development laboratories, and the educational, commercial and healthcare sectors. Our multi-disciplinary team of architects, mechanical and electrical engineers, process engineers, validation specialists and project managers can deliver any required combination of services design from individual disciplines to a fully integrated project solution. We are experienced in managing all aspects of project delivery from initial feasibility studies through master planning, budget estimates, design and documentation to construction management, acceptance, validation and post construction services. We are able to deliver a complete project with a focus on the integration of the facility and the process, ensuring a high quality outcome based on the needs of the project and client.

 Established in 1923, SNP Security is Australia's largest integrated security company and proudly privately owned.  SNP Security develops integrated security solutions for many major universities and educational facilities throughout Australia, with seamless delivery of guards and patrols, Grade A1 monitoring and electronic security.

By focussing on long term, cost reduction partnerships, SNP Security will customise a solution to suit your institutions situation and budget. Our guards provide a flexible workforce, extending beyond traditional guarding and patrol duties to mailroom, postal delivery, shuttle bus and more.

Quality certified since 1997, SNP Security consistently surpasses the industry- average service levels. Security Guards are highly trained and equipped with the latest security technology, backed with a high site supervisor ratio to ensure consistent service levels.

The Electronic Security team is experienced in a range of education projects, including CCTV, intercom, access control and alarm systems. SNP Security utilises a range of innovative products, including Cardax.

• Cost-effective facility management provider
• Demonstrated education sector expertise
• Flexible models: from single service delivery to full strategic asset management

• Maintenance and essential services
• Refurbishment and painting services
• Procurement of education fixtures and fittings
• Car park management
• Fleet management
• Real Estate including acquisition, disposal and property management
• Food services (retail and residential)
• Open Space Management (grounds, gardens and sporting fields)
• Cleaning services
• Laundry and linen services
• University staff recruitment services

• Spotless benchmarked reactive works across its portfolio and offered one client a fixed price, risk free solution for all breakdowns on this basis, assisting the client with reduced administrative effort and a known budget spread evenly throughout the year
• Spotless waste management helped one institute re-stream 98 per cent of their waste to re-use and recycling programs.
• An education facility saved $5 million over three years on their utility bills thanks to our expert consultancy
• Our centralised purchasing and bulk purchasing of equipment, fixtures and fittings saved one university 15 per cent off their total fixture budget.

• University of New South Wales
• University of Tasmania
• University of Canberra
• University of Adelaide
• University of Wollongong

Southbank Educational and Training Precinct in Queensland

Suters Architects is a multi-disciplinary architecture practice with 150 staff across five offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, Brisbane and Cairns. Projects with values of up to AUD$170m have been successfully completed by various procurement methods and our buildings have been praised for their innovation, sustainability, aesthetics and functionality. 

TAC provides innovative Building IT solutions using advanced open system technology to make buildings more valuable, efficient and secure for owners and occupants. This is achieved through energy management, access control and building management systems.

TAC Pacific believes in working closely with our clients to achieve the best possible solutions for their needs. There may not always be an easy solution, so good communication and our commitment to “keeping our promises” ensures that the final result satisfies if not exceeds our client expectations.

TAC Pacific has offices in all states of Australia. This enables us to quickly respond to all queries and needs of our clients.

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.