| Carfax been meticulously restored to its former glory, and its future has now been assured. The Graythwaite Estate Stage 1 Project was awarded two Master Builders’ Excellence in Construction Awards in 2014. First, the project received the 2014 NSW MBA Award for Restoration of a Historic Building. Later, at the National Awards, the project won the Commercial Historical / Renovation Award. Paul says he values that kind of recognition from a marketing perspective, but in this particular case, it also “meant a lot to the whole team.” “To win that award was brilliant,” he says. “It was a difficult project with significant time constraints, given that SHORE had booked in dignitaries to open the building for their 125th year anniversary. We had to work very hard to get there, and we did, and the client was over the moon with the result.” According to Paul, Carfax was able to overcome that challenging timetable with some “pretty intense programming” – programming which accounted for even the smallest details. For example, they had to match 150-year-old tiles, which were made overseas in England. It required a lot of time to get samples sent back, get the architect to sign off, and get the work commissioned− and that time needed to be programmed in from the start. “There were a lot of things we had to be doing well in advance of when we actually could start carrying the works out,” Paul says. “It was a big team effort to make that happen. We had a number of people working very hard and very long hours to achieve that OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
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