{"id":11454,"date":"2021-05-18T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:47:10","slug":"apprentices-reach-new-heights-at-sydney-football-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/apprentices-reach-new-heights-at-sydney-football-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"APPRENTICES REACH NEW HEIGHTS AT SYDNEY FOOTBALL STADIUM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apprentices working on the Sydney Football Stadium have contributed to its history, taking part in the official topping out ceremony of the world-class venue.
\nMinister for Skills, Tertiary Education and Sport Geoff Lee said the NSW Government, along with delivery partner John Holland, is proud to have completed the highest point
\nof the stadium\u2019s structure.
\nA long-held tradition in the construction sector, the milestone is marked by lowering a tree to the highest point of the stadium.
\n\u201cTopping out is a major milestone for the Sydney Football Stadium and I am pleased this project is supporting around 800 employees and apprentices in its construction
\nand even more jobs when it is complete,\u201d Mr Lee said.
\nThe NSW Government is funding an Aboriginal pre-employment program at the construction site of the Sydney Football Stadium to encourage unemployed locals to
\ntake up jobs in the construction industry.
\n\u201cAll students involved in the pre-employment program have progressed to a full-time job with three graduates from the group employed right here at the Sydney Football
\nStadium.\u201d
\n\u201cThere is no better training ground for an apprentice than to learn the tools of the trade on the site of a world-class stadium.\u201d
\n\u201cTo further boost local jobs, local businesses have been awarded almost $300 million worth of contracts to NSW-based suppliers and contractors.\u201d
\nJohn Holland General Manager Matthew Bourne said it was a highlight for graduates to be a part of one of the biggest milestones in the building of the stadium.
\n\u201cNow we have topped out the stadium, we are well and truly on the home stretch, with the stadium on track to be completed by the NRL finals next year, Mr Bourne said.
\n\u201cIn partnership with the NSW Government, we\u2019re providing unemployed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with entry level industry skills to open up career pathways they may not have considered in the construction industry.\u201d
\nThe next construction milestone is to build the stadium\u2019s roof, which will involve 4,000 individual pieces of steel, most of which is manufactured in Western Sydney by the same company who built the roof of the original stadium in 1988.
\nFor more information on pre-apprenticeship programs, visit
\nhttps:\/\/education.nsw.gov.au\/skills-nsw<\/a>
\nFor more information on the construction of Sydney Football Stadium, visit:
\nhttps:\/\/www.infrastructure.nsw.gov.au\/projects-nsw\/sydney-football-stadium-redevelopment\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apprentices working on the Sydney Football Stadium have contributed to its history, taking part in the official topping out ceremony of the world-class venue. Minister for Skills, Tertiary Education and Sport Geoff Lee said the NSW Government, along with delivery partner John Holland, is proud to have completed the highest point of the stadium\u2019s structure. … Continue reading “APPRENTICES REACH NEW HEIGHTS AT SYDNEY FOOTBALL STADIUM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}