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Fardoulys Constructions
Since 1976

Three generations, one office.

Fardoulys Constructions has built from Coorparoo since 1976. Fifty years, one office, more than 2,250 projects.

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Fifty yearsFive chapters

Fifty years, one office

Year counter, 1976 to 2026

Chapter 1

The jam factory

1976 to 1983

  1. 1976

    A converted jam factory

    Peter Fardoulys AM opens the company in an old jam factory in Coorparoo. From the start the work is high in volume and small in size: whatever the builders, oil companies and government departments of the day need.

  2. 1976

    Mobil, Bowen Hills

    The first service station job. Work for Mobil, Ampol, BP, Shell and Caltex carries on for four decades, from Bowen Hills to Cairns, Mount Isa and Brunswick Heads. Building on sites that stay open becomes the company's habit.

  3. 1978

    Barracks and runways

    By 1978 the company is working at the Enoggera and Gaythorne barracks, with Greenbank and Canungra to follow, and building a new fuel tank at Brisbane Airport.

  4. 1981

    Robin joins

    Robin Fardoulys joins his father in the business and has led it since.

  5. 1982

    The Commonwealth Games

    Brisbane hosts the Commonwealth Games, and the company builds for the broadcast: commentary booths and studio floors for the ABC, and camera platforms at QEII Stadium, Chandler, Festival Hall and Moorooka, put up for the Games and taken down after.

Chapter 2

The length of the state

1984 to 1989

  1. 1986

    North of the Tropic

    The work runs the length of Queensland, all of it run out of Coorparoo: Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Mackay, Mount Isa, Normanton and Mossman. Police stations, post offices, a prison, schools and a railway freight terminal at Ayr.

  2. 1987

    Airports

    Works at Cairns Airport, with Bundaberg Airport to follow.

  3. 1988

    Expo 88

    Media House and the Aboriginal maze, built for the World Expo that reshaped Brisbane and put the South Bank riverfront into public hands.

Chapter 3

A permanent home

1990 to 1999

  1. 1990

    36 Harries Road

    The company builds its own head office in Coorparoo. It is still the address on every contract.

  2. 1991

    Laguna Quays

    Hillside terraces at the Laguna Quays resort in the Whitsundays.

  3. 1999

    Kooroomba Vineyard

    Building in the Scenic Rim, on a working vineyard and lavender farm at the foot of Mount Kooroomba.

Chapter 4

Fewer jobs, bigger jobs

2000 to 2012

  1. 2005

    Brisbane Powerhouse

    Fitout of the Turbine Building, turning a derelict riverside power station into one of the city's arts venues.

  2. 2005

    Shopping centres and head offices

    Gumdale Shopping Centre and the Endeavour Foundation head office. Small work falls away, and contracts get larger and programmes longer.

  3. 2006

    A club in stages

    Greenbank RSL, a club redevelopment delivered in stages around a trading club.

  4. 2008

    Care

    A dementia building at Canossa, Oxley, and the Sevenoaks redevelopment at Fig Tree Pocket.

  5. 2009

    Schools take the lead

    Mount St Michael's College at Ashgrove and the Marymount science and resource centre at Burleigh Waters. By contract value, education becomes the largest sector the company builds in, and has stayed there.

Chapter 5

Trusted with the keys

2013 to 2026

  1. 2013

    The third generation

    Will Fardoulys joins as a cadet while studying, and comes up through contracts and site into project delivery. The family's third generation learns the trade on the same jobs as the site leaders who have run them for decades.

  2. 2014

    Building around the boarders

    Boarding houses, learning centres and laboratories are built on campuses where students live, study and sleep through the works. Schools hand over the grounds because the staging plan is agreed before anyone moves.

  3. 2019

    Asked back

    Clients who first engaged the company in the 1980s return for their next generation of buildings. One stage is won on the last, and each handover is the pitch for the next brief.

  4. 2022

    In the room before the drawings

    Owners start bringing the company in before the design is settled, under early contractor involvement. Price, staging and buildability are worked through with the consultants, and the owner comes back on the same model.

  5. 2026

    Fifty years

    Clubs keep trading, schools keep teaching and aged care homes stay open while the company builds around them. Fifty years on from the jam factory, the same office in Coorparoo is delivering work up to $30M.

Forecourts, barracks, airports, boarding houses, clubhouses. The work has changed with every decade and the address has not. Site leaders with decades on the tools run jobs alongside a younger generation of project managers, and the clients who trusted the company with their buildings keep handing over the keys.

How we workFour principles

How we work

  1. 01

    Senior-led

    Every project is led by senior people who price it, plan it and see it through to handover, backed by an experienced Coorparoo team of project managers, contract administrators, estimators and finance staff. Clients deal directly with the people making the decisions.

  2. 02

    Planned from the start

    Staging, sequencing and procurement are resolved before work begins, so the programme is built on a plan the client has seen and agreed. Where a building has to stay in use, the plan is designed around its operation.

  3. 03

    Commercial control

    Our contract administrators, quantity surveyors and financial managers control cost, programme and risk from tender to final account. Risk is identified and mitigated early, reporting is clear, and owners have full visibility of their project at every stage.

  4. 04

    Long-term relationships

    Much of our work comes from owners, operators and consultants we have built for before. Fifty years in Coorparoo, three generations of the family and a network of more than 7,000 industry contacts give every client continuity and a builder who will be here for the life of the building.

LeadershipTwo entries

Leadership

  • Robin Fardoulys

    Managing Director

    Robin has led Fardoulys Constructions for more than four decades, taking the company his father founded through every kind of market. He sets its commercial direction, holds its builder's licence and stays close to every major job. Outside the company he has spent his career working on the industry itself, through building standards, construction education and the Australian Institute of Building, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to building and construction.

  • Will Fardoulys

    Project Manager

    Will is the third generation of the family in the business and leads its project delivery and new work. Trained in construction management at QUT and brought up on Fardoulys sites, he pairs a builder's grounding with commercial discipline. He runs tendering and early contractor involvement, steers the estimating, contracts and site teams, and is the client's point of contact from the first conversation to handover. His focus is clients who come back, won with straight answers, tight cost control and programmes that hold.

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