Fusco Constructions' modular innovation to be boosted at South Australia's Tonsley Innovation District
South Australia's Fusco Constructions, founded by Ben Fusco with son John as managing director (inset), had taken on projects such as 28 Everard Apartments (at left) on Anzac Highway but also attracted state government contracts with its modular construction approach for work in the far north such as the Pukatja youth centre and community pool complex (bottom right).
Fusco Constructions’ move to new headquarters at Tonsley Innovation District was another significant step for the South Australian company that started in the 1960s as a plumbing business.
The company had its origins with Ben Fusco, born in Italy during World War II and arriving in Australia as a 21-year-old overcoming language and cultural barriers. He met his wife Janet and, in 1968, on the day his second child was born, started his own Fusco Plumbing Services. He gained more building qualifications to start Fusco Homes in 1989. In 2001, Ben Fusco partnered with youngest son John as Fusco Constructions.
The company’s new headquarters at Tonsely Innovation District would consolidate operations into one central hub, combining the offices in southern Adelaide and the manufacturing plant at Burton in the north.
Fusco Constructions had taken on projects such as the 28 Everard Apartments on Anzac Highway but opened up a new stream of work for the South Australian government through its innovative modular approach that involved off-site building of transportable buildings that ccould be dropped in place, reducing time spent onsite. The company used this method to deliver the Pukatja youth centre and community pool complex on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in far northwest South Australia and three transportable police stations for South Australian Police on the Indulkana, Pipalyatjara and Kaltjiti Aboriginal communities, also on the APY Lands. The company also was awarded several government education department modular projects at the Elliston Area School, Berri Regional Secondary College and Edwardstown Primary School.
The company’s 4,000 square metres manufacturing plant at the Tonsley Innovation District would allow it to construct more modular transportable buildings.
