Awards

Village builder wins two national HIA awards

Jun 01 2015 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Youthful regional building company, Strongbuild, has been has won two national awards of 2015 HIA-CSR Australian Housing awards.

Based in Nowra (South Coast NSW) they run the Australian special-purpose housing project award for construction of the Arbour retirement village at Berry - which also won the Property Councils top retirement village development last year.
http://www.strongbuild.com.au/

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