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Giovenco
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Table of Contents
A Perfect Provenance ...................................................................................................... 3
The Business of GioScaff ................................................................................................ 6
Our Services .................................................................................................................... 7
The Capability of Gioscaff ............................................................................................... 9
GioScaff Does It This Way ............................................................................................. 10
Our Experience .............................................................................................................. 11
Contact details for senior management:
Warren Wells, CEO and Chairman of GioScaff
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0418 498 124
Leon Kelly, State Manager (NSW & ACT)
Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0487 411 888
Richard Bilsland, State Manager (QLD & NT)
Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0499 111 606
Carlo Giovenco, Business Development Director
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0408 203 554
Don MacKinnon, Project Management
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0407 919 236
Janece Wells, Administrator
Email:[email protected]
Telephone: 0419 212 596
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GioScaff - A Perfect Provenance
Our history
The patron of Giovenco Scaffolding Pty Ltd
(“GioScaff”) is Claudio Giovenco.
Claudio’s oldest brother, Bonaventura (“Bon”) was
captured by the Australian Army in Egypt while serving
in the Italian Army in World War II and brought to
Australia as a prisoner of war.
After being repatriated, Bon, his wife, Maria, and their
daughter, returned to Australia as Italian immigrants. A
short time later, Arturo (“Arthur”), Gaitano (“Guy”),
Vittorio (“Vic:”) and the youngest brother, Claudio,
joined him with their parents in Australia.
The brothers sought work and took (at that time) the
worst of jobs, blasting and painting, at a time when
OH&S regulations protecting employees were “light on
the ground”. This took them to a job at the then being constructed Caltex Oil Refinery at
Kurnell in or around 1955.
There, Guy formed a friendship with the American chief engineer in charge of construction.
The engineer induced the brothers to incorporate a company with a view to taking on work
at the Refinery during its construction. The brothers painted the new tanks being constructed
at the Refinery. This started a 60 year business relationship between Caltex and the brothers.
In Gary Lester’s history of the Kurnell Refinery “Refining at Kurnell: The Caltex Story”, pages
120 and 121are dedicated to the Giovenco brothers.
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The rest is history, the brothers created a very successful business in painting and blasting
and complementary works, including scaffolding and insulation. Giovenco industries was
known for its honesty, integrity and its very loyal workforce.
Claudio has outlived his brothers and is the patron of GioScaff, bringing 60 years of on-the-
job experience in undertaking the most complex of scaffolding projects worldwide.
The safety of employees has been a passion for Claudio and his brothers. It was not unusual
for three generations of one family to work for the brothers. That passion for safety is imbued
within the corporate philosophy of GioScaff.
Leadership
Warren Wells is a forty plus year business and commercial
lawyer, CEO, director and chairman of the board of GioScaff.
Warren was a director of the original Giovenco companies so
he has had a very long relationship with the business
including scaffolding.
Warren brings to the business of GioScaff his wealth of
expertise in business and the law.
Having worked within the Giovenco family for some many
years, he also brings to GioScaff an intense passion for the
safety of GioScaff employees, and the honesty and integrity
that comes with the name “Giovenco”.
Contact details: [email protected], 0418 498 124
Business development
Carlo, Claudio’s son, worked on the job with his father for
some 30 years and brings to GioScaff that experience. Most
importantly, Carlo brings the protection and safety of
employees, honesty and integrity in business to the business
of Gioscaff.
Carlo is the director responsible for new business in
GioScaff, and works day to day in business development.
Contact details: [email protected], 0408 203 554
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Management
Leon Kelly is the New South Wales manager for GioScaff and
has been involved in the specialised access industry for
20 years, bringing a wealth of experience and management
expertise to GioScaff. He brings to GioScaff skills in HSE,
project management, technical knowledge, stakeholder
engagement, relationship management, logistics and finances.
Leon has experience in all sectors of the construction industry
including commercial, infrastructure, industrial, marine,
defence, government and residential. He is specialised in all
aspects of the industry including cantilevered scaffolds, swing
stages, engineered access, suspended scaffolds and other
difficult access solutions. Leon has also specialised in the
remedial building sector especially managing the projects with
‘live’ sites involving tenants & owners.
Contact details: [email protected], 0487 411 888
Richard Bilsland is the Queensland and Northern
Territories manager for GioScaff and brings to GioScaff
over 22 years of experience within the industry, 15 of
those years by way of the UK market. He has expertise
in varying sectors from energy and renewables,
government and defence through to commercial
construction and has progressed from an operational
foundation through to managerial positions in varying
disciplines.
Richard’s ethos towards safety, culture and customer
satisfaction strengthens the GioScaff team positioning
the business to deliver on client expectations.
Contact details: [email protected], 0499 111 606
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Production
Don MacKinnon worked for Giovenco as a project manager in
scaffolding.
When Claudio and Warren decided to establish GioScaff, the
joining of the experience of Claudio and Warren with the on-
the-job experience of Don was the obvious choice for both.
Don has been a scaffolding project manager for many years
and has worked within a regime of honesty and integrity in
business and reflects that in his business dealings. Don has a
long experience in work safety and is the work safety officer for
the GioScaff group in all States.
Don as the safety officer for GioScaff instils in all of its
employees the “Think Safety – Work Safely” regime that
underpins the workplace protocol on every GioScaff work site.
Contact details: [email protected], 0407 919 236
The importance of administration
The back office is critical to good business and this is managed
by Janece Wells. She brings to GioScaff a wealth of accounting
and administrative experience so that clients of GioScaff can be
assured that their financial and administrative interaction with
GioScaff will be highly professional
Contact details: [email protected], 0419 212 596
Client communication and public relations
Margaret Sharp brings to the
GioScaff team a history of client communication and public
relations experience.
Margaret undertakes the role of client communication and public
relations and will interact with clients and their employees as and
when necessary in order to make certain that GioScaff delivers
on time, on cost and in excess of the client’s expectations.
Margaret is the eldest daughter of our patron.
Contact details: [email protected], 1300 576 744
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In house legal
Jane Truong provides the in house legal support for the contract
administration and interaction legally between GioScaff, its
clients and the world generally.
Jane has had a long experience in business and commercial
law, having graduated from Macquarie University and worked
as a paralegal in a business and commercial law firm during her
study period.
Jane brings to the business of GioScaff a great experience in
business and commercial law.
The GioScaff management team and support
The GioScaff family
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The Business of GioScaff
Where GioScaff works
GioScaff supplies scaffolding to construction, remedial companies and those requiring
access by way of scaffolding, swing stages and the like for the residential, commercial and
industrial sector throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
GioScaff flexibility
Having regard to the range of equipment that GioScaff has available to it GioScaff can supply
an access solution for any and all jobs.
Every job size, the most complicated, those requiring sophisticated design are all the ‘bag’
for GioScaff
The GioScaff advice line
Getting the right access solution is an art form, requiring the blending of civil engineering,
imaginative design, on site experience and hard labour.
GioScaff provides a free service to its clients providing advice as to the access alternatives
available to the client.
Scaffolding Labour Hire
GioScaff’s sister company, Scaffolding Labour Hire, supplies highly qualified scaffolders, so
if you have your own gear GioScaff can provide its design service, and arrange for your
scaffolding to be erected and dismantled by highly trained and qualified scaffolders.
GioScaff’s lift and crane sister company
GioScaff’s sister company, Easy Lift Hire, provides alternative access opportunities to
Gioscaff clients by way of its range of lifts and cranes that can get into the tightest job site
and make the introduction of materials and job site access a ‘breeze’.
Specialised workplaces
GioScaff project managers and staff have been inducted such that they are able to
accommodate the most stringent of client needs for example; in working at heights, within
dangerous workplaces such as with high voltage electricity and in confined spaces.
GioScaff has itself and its clients covered
GioScaff has in place all insurances including workers compensation, product and public risk.
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ISO accreditation and sophisticated paperwork
GioScaff has the experience and the systems to provide the most complex of supporting
documentation to its clients for example management and work health and safety plans
SWMS and the like.
GioScaff committed to safety
GioScaff has a commitment to safety, in that we require GioScaff people to make sound
choices about their own safety and the safety of others by requiring them to apply the
GioScaff safety program “Think Safety - Work Safely” at all times.
GioScaff knows its obligations at law
All of our operations are compliant with:
Fair Work Act 2009
Corporations Act 2001
Work, Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
Work, Health and Safety Regulations 2011
Information and Privacy Act 2000
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Our Services
GioScaff provides the following services:
Training induction and qualification of prospective employees and contractors on
projects in the scaffolding industry
Site inspections of potential scaffolding work areas to identify the elements necessary
to estimate and provide customers with a cost effective access solution and
subsequently, to perform efficiently, safely and to budget.
Ingenuitive advice and counsel as to the safest and most cost effective method of
creating access to even the most access-difficult work sites
Where scaffolding is the access solution, design even the most complicated of
scaffolding structures for all project types using specialised software and applying the
huge depth of experience and expertise of its senior management
Where scaffolding is the access solution, prepare a detailed presentation as to the
scope of works for the erection, continued support for and dismantling of a scaffolding
project including detailed costing of same.
The design and implementation of a work safe strategy in protection of the principal’s
employees and contractors and the public generally in the creation of a protected
work site to provide the best, most efficient and cost effective access solution, to
protect the public and other workers during the use of the scaffold, and its dismantling
Where necessary design the best, most efficient and cost effective method to
introduce the materials necessary to provide the best and most cost effective site
access including the implementation of the range of equipment available to GioScaff
from its sister companies including Easy Lift Hire
The hire and sales of all scaffolding equipment
The provision of modulate scaffold
The provision of tubing and fitting scaffolds
The provision of hung scaffold
The provision of specialised scaffolding for industrial purposes, for example, Ken-
Kage
The design, scope of works and methodology to be applied for the erection of
specialised scaffold for confined spaces
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The provision of stair towers
The design, scope of works and methodology to be applied for the provision of
propping and supporting systems
The preparation, provision and implementation of Safe Work Method Statements
(“SWMS”) creating the maximum protection for GioScaff employees, the principal’s
employees and contractors and any persons entering, using, working upon or around
the scaffold
The provision of internal bird cages
The implementation of the scaffold tag protocol as set out in the GioScaff’s Health
and Safety Management Plan, “Think Safety – Work Safely”
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The Capability of GioScaff
Provide safe, efficient and cost effective access by the design, erection, maintenance,
support and dismantling of scaffold
Providing and managing certified, well-trained and inducted scaffolding teams for
projects large and small, including large mining, oil and gas construction projects
Providing and managing certified, well-trained and inducted scaffolding teams for
major maintenance projects
Providing and managing certified, well-trained and inducted scaffolding teams for
residential, commercial and industrial sites
Resources of over 6,000 tonnes of scaffold
Induction training and certification for scaffolders on major project sites
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GioScaff Does It This Way
The erection support and dismantling of scaffolding demands tough and potentially
dangerous work.
GioScaff serves its clients with a highly motivated and safety conscious work force.
GioScaff’s core conviction is to respect, manage and develop the skills of GioScaff
employees. The result allows GioScaff to provide the best possible service to its clients.
Our service is based on two philosophies, “do it right the first time and every time”, and
“Think Safety - Work Safely”.
Clients will find the GioScaff level of communication with them second to none which ensures
that GioScaff management understands and responds to the needs of clients and that they
are satisfied beyond expectations.
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Our Experience
Senior staff and GioScaff contractors have worked on the following major projects:
BHP Yandi RGP5, Pilbara, Western Australia
BHP Newman Hub, Pilbara, Western Australia
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Caltex Refinery, Kurnell, New South Wales
Vaucluse Anglican Church, New South Wales
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Sammut Developments, Breeze apartments, Cronulla
MacDonald contracting, Cronulla/Blue Mountains
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Ambient Constructions
Bronx Constructions, Bronte
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Project Lockhardt Chambers, 233 Macquarie Street, Sydney