Structural concrete contractor
Concrete pumped, placed and finished across Canberra and Newcastle.
Established in 1990, CPS delivers structural concrete packages for head contractors and developers from its Canberra head office and its Newcastle depot — to specification, to programme, and to the contract sum.
- Years in operation
- 35+
- Stationary line pumps
- 5
- Mobile pumps
- 8
- Placing booms
- 12
Concrete
One trade, done properly, since 1990.
CPS Concrete Group is a family-owned business that pumps, places and finishes structural concrete. It has done that, and only that, for thirty-five years — from Canberra, and now from a depot in Newcastle servicing the Hunter.
The company works as a specialist concrete contractor to head contractors and developers. Pumping, placement and finishing come from one business under one contract, so the work has a single point of responsibility. Pumping is also supplied on its own.
01
Concrete Place & Finish
Structural concrete placed and finished to level, on programme, from footings to the top floor.
02
Mobile Concrete Pumping
Truck-mounted boom pumps from 35m to 52m, operated by directly employed, ticketed CPS operators.
03
Placing Boom Hire
Tower placing booms from 32m to 38m, hired for the life of a multi-level structure.
Projects
Five of Canberra's tallest towers. An operating airport terminal.
Delivered packages include the largest residential precinct in Canberra to date, multi-level carparks, commercial structures and a regional aquatic centre, on projects valued up to $1 billion.
Lendlease
New Anzac Hall & Glazed Link, Australian War Memorial
Gallery Expansion, Campbell
Bloc
DKSN
Mixed-Use Urban Renewal Precinct
ADCO
Batemans Bay Aquatic Centre
Regional Aquatic, Arts and Leisure Centre
Construction Control
Civic Quarter — Stage 2
Landmark Commercial Tower, Northbourne Avenue
Geocon
High Society
Canberra's Tallest Residential Tower, Republic Precinct
Construction Control
Canberra Airport Terminal
Multi-User Terminal Redevelopment, Majura
Success
Quality, on programme, within budget.
The three constraints a concrete package is judged on. Each is controlled during the pour rather than reconciled after it.
Quality
Levels, set-out, cover and penetrations are checked before the first truck and monitored through placement, while there is still time to correct them. Finishes are delivered to the specified surface class and tolerance, and joint layout follows the structural drawings rather than the crew’s convenience.
- Pre-pour verification against the structural drawings
- Level and tolerance monitoring through placement
- Specified finishes: steel trowel, burnished, broom, exposed aggregate
- Curing and weather protection planned into the pour
Programme
A concrete package is judged over months, not on one deck. CPS carries the crews and the fleet to run several structures at the same time and to absorb the days that move — weather, a late design change, a deck brought forward. Because the labour is directly employed and the plant is owned, capacity can be committed to a programme and held there, so one slipped pour does not compound into a lost cycle.
- Directly employed crews, scaled to run concurrent structures
- Owned fleet — pumping capacity is never queued behind another contractor
- Deck cycles held across multi-stage and multi-tower programmes
- Capacity to recover time when weather or design moves a pour
Budget
Quotations are built from the drawings and the site’s real constraints, not from a rate per square metre. Where a design or sequence change affects cost, it is identified and quantified when it arises, so the final account reflects the tender.
- Scope priced from structural drawings and site constraints
- Buildability issues identified during tender review
- Variations quantified as they arise, not at final account
- Pumping, placement and finishing under one contract
Sectors
Where CPS works.
- Residential
- Multi-level apartment buildings and high-rise residential towers, placed floor on floor to a repeating deck cycle.
- Mixed-use
- Precincts combining commercial floor plates with residential levels above, including transfer structures and changing column grids.
- Commercial
- Office structures, multi-level carparks and terminal buildings, including work inside live, operating facilities.
- Civil & infrastructure
- Ground slabs, capping beams, pile caps, retaining and civil structures for infrastructure contractors.
- Community
- Aquatic centres, public facilities and water-retaining structures where durability governs the pour.
Delivered for
Clients include Geocon, Construction Control, Bloc, Core Developments, ADCO, Hindmarsh, Icon, JW Land, Kane Constructions, Barpa, Bonmen, Complex Co, Elevated Constructions, FDC, GWH, Joss, Knowles Group, Lendlease, Manteena, Monarch Building Solutions, Multiplex, Richard Crookes.
Tender enquiries
Structural drawings, programme, pour dates and site access constraints are enough to price a package. Send them to tenders@cpscg.com.au, or use the enquiry form.