JA Crockett

24/12/2022

22/04/2022

It was with great sadness we learned of the passing of Dave Borthwick, a long term employee and top bloke, whose time at Crockett’s spanned six decades.

Starting in March of 1952 as a 15 year old, Dave learned his trade the traditional way – on the job – and retired over 48 years later in October of 2000, by which time he was a Supervisor and greatly respected member of the Crockett team.

Dave was an integral part of forming the JA Crockett culture; and an untold number of tradesmen who applied their trade here can attest to his influence on them. Not just professionally but personally.

Dave was always there to help his fellow mate and was always very considerate of others, even in his last days opting not to take a heart from a donor so that someone younger could have it.

Dave and Phil Crockett remained mates through all of those years and right up to today and Phil – like all of us – will miss him greatly.

Our condolences to Barbra and his family and all that knew him.

09/04/2022

Snowy Hydro Office Fitout Kurri Kurri

Congratulations to Sef, Dan and the crew who knocked this over end of last year to early this year! With the client worried about project delivery and multiple engineering issues to resolve to make this happen, Crockett’s stepped in to execute it to the highest of standards.

The project began with standing a couple dozen SHS columns, RHS beams and purlins to create a low enough structure to suspend all ceilings and services from. Not a bad solution when you have a warehouse roof that is 16m high.. the fitout consisted of metal stud framing, acoustic insulation, acoustic plasterboard linings, pinboards, Armstrong exposed grid ceiling tiles, Autex frontier acoustic blades and Horizon cloud panels. The combination of Autex feature ceiling panels, pinboard wall linings and mineral fibre ceiling tiles all contributed toward making the perfect acoustic environment for an office space.

| Fast Stud | Rondo | NHS | Knauf USG Boral | James Hardie | Premier Insulation | Armstrong Ceilings | Autex | Himmel |

Builder: Collaborative

01/04/2022

Greater Bank Head Office Refurb Hamilton

The boys (and girl) have produced the highest level of quality and professional finish, delivering it on time to what was a tight timeframe.

The refurbishment included office space to Level 4 & on the Ground Floor a New Branch, Cafeteria, Entry Foyer & Meeting rooms has just been completed. As well as the replacement of non-compliant soffit linings to Beaumont, Tudor & Williams Streets.

We enjoyed the collaboration of the selected products and how they all came together so well to produce the Greater Bank feel. Armstrong Ultima Ceilings, Knauf Echostop perforated plasterboard, curved bulkheads, large Himmel sliding glazed doors, large timber pivot doors, powdercoated glazed suites & doors with matching coloured hardware including 6 different powdercoated colours, wavebar acoustic sound barrier and Vitracore G2 soffits feature in this refit. Some challenging details all very well executed by the JA Crockett team!

| Rondo | Fast Stud | NHS | Knauf USG Boral | Himmel | AJ Edden | Assa Abloy | Insulation Industries | Fairview | Viridian |

Builder: Graphite Projects

25/03/2022

Nihon (Japanese) University

AWCI Award Winner Alert!

Recently our AWCI association held an awards night and JA Crockett’s were acknowledged for the quality work we produce! This project brought many challenges, completed through the middle of Covid we faced all the regular building industry challenges and now the new ones we didn’t even know about yet. We are very proud of the team that delivered this project and congratulations to Mark, Shane, Wil and the team, good to see your hard work acknowledged!

This job was really 3 four storey buildings. One accommodation, one a refurb of a heritage Courthouse, and one an education classrooms building. This job had many prefinished components including Armstrong VP500 acoustic perforated baffles, USG Boral Asona cloud acoustic panels, Barrisol backlit ceilings, NC Alpolic feature cladding, Equitone Cladding, and Armstrong Ultima exposed grid ceilings. It brought other challenges such as matching 4 different types of heritage plaster cornices and completing it all on a tight timeframe. This job took great co-ordination, negotiation and organisation and the team to deliver it! Well done guys!

| Fast Stud | NHS | Insulation Industries | Kingspan | Armstrong Ceilings | USG Boral | Alpolic | Equitone | Siniat | AllPlasta |

Builder: Built

11/09/2021

Parry St Commercial - Cutcher & Neale Fitout

We were pleased to be apart of this build. This 4 storey building was handed over mid year and features 2 round cone skylights with an LED light pelmet and and huge skylight over the entry reception and green wall to the Cutcher & Neale fitout. It also features upturn plasterboard pelmets to the perimeter of the ceiling, 2000m2 of Armstrong Ultima ceiling tiles, recessed tv niches, ezyjamb door frames, & Mondoclad soffits to the ground floor and Level 3 balcony.

We also provided acoustic and fire rated solutions including a 2hr fire rated floor.

Congratulations to all the guys that contributed toward the quality finish!

| Rondo | Fast Stud | Nhs | USG Boral | Armstrong Ceilings | Studco ezyjambs | Himmel | HVG |

Builder: North Construction & Building

29/04/2021

24/10/2020

Always love to see the finished product, so often we labour for months over the ceilings and partitions part of the job, hand over our part never to see it furnished and finalised for our client.

Enjoyed seeing these professional photos curtesy of Built. This is another of our AWCI NSW entries - Newcastle Family Law Courts.

| NHS | Fast Stud | Knauf Armstrong Ceiling Solutions | Premier Insulation | Sapphire Aluminium | Himmel | Supawood |

Builder: Built

16/10/2020

Port of Newcastle Office Fitout

Completed a year ago, we finally got in to get some photos today for our AWCI NSW awards.

We are very proud to be associated with the Port of Newcastle and Core Projects in delivering this fitout which needed to be completed in a tight timeframe. Featuring acoustic partitions, acoustic ceilings and high acoustic glazing required for these professional office, boardroom and meeting spaces. The feature black 400x1200mm metal perforated ceiling tiles from SAS & the feature sculptform timber ceiling battens lifted the fitout to a high quality unique finish.

| NHS Newcastle | FastStud | Premier Insulation | Sculptform | SAS International | CSR Himmel Interior Systems | Viridian | Knauf Armstrong Ceiling Solutions |

Builder: Core Project Group Pty Ltd
Client: Port of Newcastle
AWCI NSW & ACT

16/10/2020

Keep an eye out over the next week for our entries for 2020.

Our 2020 Award of Excellence are coming up in only 18 days! Have you got your nominations in yet? 👀👀

Take a Look at JA Crockett 2019 Winning Facade work at St Philip’s Christian College 🙌🙌

Facades are the external commercial or domestic installations.

Your Industry, Your Association, Your Awards of Excellence.

21/06/2020

Hunter Valley Grammar School Cafe
This growing school has just added a delux cafe to the end of one of their buildings with a couple of classrooms below. This project features a timber veneer perforated raking ceiling which line up with solid timber soffits. Clad in a raw finished concrete look CFC panels & featuring diagonally cut 25mm Autex pinboards which double as sound absorption to quieten down the noisy classroom.

| Studco | Fast Stud | NHS | USG Boral | Insulation Industries | CSR | Supawood | FA Mitchell’s | Kingspan | Himmel | Autex Industries |

Builder: North Construction

30/05/2020

New Innercity Fleet Maintenance Facilty - Kangy Angy

This $300 million governement initiative is coming close to completion. Working on the Main Warehouse Building, Security Building, Wheel Lathe, Traction Sub Station, & Train Wash Building. Shane, Mark, Mark & many more who have been apart of this project have done an exceptional job! Bringing together a wide range of office fitout products achieving fire rating requirements, sound rating needs, sound deadening of noise reverberation in meeting rooms (3D Autex Tiles), plant rooms (CSR Acoustic Martini Panels), outdoor plant rooms (Reapor Tiles) and the Warehouse (Stratocell Panels), and forming air plenums to name a few. We even went the extra mile on this one and painted the place as well as installing 800m of train walkway warning treads.

JA Crockett became the one stop shop on this one as we have on many other large projects.

| Fast Stud | Studco | NHS | USG Boral | Insulation Industries | Himmel | Autex | Woodform | Armstrong Ceilings | Dulux | James Hardie | CSR Bradford | Pyrotek | Laminex | Soundblock | Treadwell | InBlinds |

| Builder: John Holland Group |