Hickory Group has a vision for the construction industry: to do things differently and to challenge the status quo. After 28 years in the industry, it is still well and truly part of the Group’s DNA. Today, it is one of Australia’s largest multi-unit builders, and one of the most innovative building firms in the industry.
Inventive, adventurous, and quality driven, Sync bathroom pod solutions were born out of the need to develop an efficient cost-effective construction solution for bathrooms. Sync creates superior quality bathrooms that reduce the number of trades required on site and simplifies the installation and construction process.
The bathroom is one of the most complex rooms to build, requiring the coordination of multiple trades, a goodly amount of hourly labour spread across a number of different subcontractors, and lots of opportunities for cost overruns.
Until Sync, avoiding these complexities was impossible. Take it from Eddie Pallotta, Director of Operations for Sync Building Systems, who worked with the Argyrou brothers to bring the Sync concept to life.
“A bathroom is a very complicated, small space with a lot of activity going on inside of it. There are tilers, waterproofers, joiners, electricians, plumbers, and other tradespeople, and there are lot of waterproofing issues in the conventional construction processes and systems of these rooms,” he told VENTURE.
“We’ve taken away all of those risks from construction sites with our patented technology. We wanted the opportunity to decouple the bathroom build from the rest of the structure so we could start prebuilding bathrooms while the building is still a just a hole in the ground. When the structure is built, we bring the bathrooms in through a loading deck or a window opening. We take all those bathrooms off the critical path of construction.”
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