On Tuesday the 14^th of October 14 students were lucky enough to go on an excursion to the Novus Precast Solutions Warehouse and the John Holland Construction Site where the new Toowoomba Hospital is being built.

The students experienced firsthand what Novus is and what they do. Novus builds precast concrete slabs and have designed a unique connection system that is a global success. Novus joins 4 precast panels together to make a concrete box that will be the staircase walls, this box weighing 90 tonne and costing over 250k each (51 in total to be made). Students explored this facility and gained valuable insight into another avenue for employment in the construction industry.

We then went to the construction site of the new hospital which is run by John Holland. Here students witnessed cranes operating, concrete pumps pumping, scaffolders working and also walked through and saw the organisation and planning that goes into a billion-dollar project. This was an amazing opportunity for our students that would not have been possible without the help from one of our school partnerships CSQ (Construction Skills Queensland) who organised everything to give our students this awesome experience. So thankyou CSQ, Novus, and John Holland.