| Hickory Group “We’ve definitely found our niche in building more tower and high-rise projects,” Nadia explains.”There have certainly been a lot of approvals inMelbourne and other capital cities for taller buildings, and that’s because there has been a shift in terms of more people moving into urban areas and living in apartments, which wasn’t really happening in Australia 10 or 20years ago. So, we see an opportunity for Hickory to keep building these very high quality apartment and highrise developments in not only Melbourne, but in other Australian capital cities as well.” “We’re also looking to refine and develop our prefabricated systems,” she continues.”Our manufactured building products are patented and we have licensed our technology overseas. We have a joint venture with a company in China and we’re setting up a facility for manufacturing to deliver our systems for local markets there.” “We’ve got some really exciting projects that we’re going to be rolling out where we’ll be using new technology to deliver highrise projects that will really be world-first. In terms of the speed of construction, we’re talking about completing a 40-storey building in 12 months rather than over two years, which it would usually take.”
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