An exciting new prefabrication building company based in Central West NSW is helping to address the state\u2019s current housing crisis, while also sourcing local timber and creating local jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green Timber Technology, which has recently been established in partnership with The Pentarch Group, will start operating in December from the former Electrolux factory site in Orange, which has been vacant since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green Timber Technology will fabricate timber walls, roofs and floors in the factory and then deliver them to site for assembly, mostly within NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Housing affordability and availability is the single biggest pressure facing the people of NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of taking around nine months to build a new home, this process can produce around ten homes per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once fully operational, the company will build a new home roughly every four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company also aims to achieve zero waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The houses that will soon be fabricated at the Orange site will not only be affordable, but also high-end architecturally designed homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 10,000m2 <\/sup>facility is also adding a robotic element to its production line while still creating local jobs, with plans to employ 70 people by 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the prefabrication element helps dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to build a new home, the operation still involves essential building trade elements including plumbers, builders and electricians as part of the final construction phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Agriculture and Regional NSW, Tara Moriarty said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis exciting new approach will help deliver on the Government\u2019s priorities by producing affordable housing, which is the single biggest pressure facing the people of NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt will significantly increase the speed of construction through automation and avoiding weather impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI congratulate the company for also working to achieve zero net waste and providing improved worker safety, because construction will occur in a controlled environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis prefabrication building company is also vertically integrated with Pentarch Forestry\u2019s softwood plantations and mills which are based at Oberon, which is ensuring local timber and timber products are sourced in the region, reducing transport costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNSW sourced timber has an important role to play in addressing our housing crisis, and it\u2019s companies like this that are demonstrating well timed critical problem solving to address this challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe benefits for the local economy, industry and the community have come at a very welcome time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Executive Director, The Pentarch Group Stephen Dadd said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSourcing local products is an integral part of this new venture for our company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn addition to the timber aspect, we hope in the future to see some other companies follow our lead and look at what other housing products could be produced locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are not using the entire Electrolux site, so there is potential for further growth into a prefabrication housing hub.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n CEO of Green Timber Technology\u2019s Orange site Pete Morrison said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are excited to be part of the Orange community through this new initiative and to bring this new approach to housing to the Central West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ll employ around 20-25 people in the early stages of production on the floor to oversee the panel, flooring and roofing components, and additional staff in the design and structural engineering aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An exciting new prefabrication building company based in Central West NSW is helping to address the state\u2019s current housing crisis, while also sourcing local timber and creating local jobs. Green Timber Technology, which has recently been established in partnership with The Pentarch Group, will start operating in December from the former Electrolux factory site in … Continue reading “New Orange building company to utilise technology and local timber to ease housing crisis”<\/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-30993","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\/30993","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=30993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30994,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions\/30994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}