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It’s Volunteer Week across Victoria, and we’re tipping our hats to the unsung champions among us who roll up their sleeves and give back to their communities without any fuss or fanfare. At GreenCon, we’re proud to have a number from our team who volunteer away from work. They put in the hard yards during […]

For many years GreenCon has provided sponsorship to the Cobden Cricket Club. And like any club, they’ve had their share of ups and downs: some low points, but also tonnes of highlights. This year, we think they can rightly add one more item to their highlight’s reel. Because, for the first time, the club fielded […]

Victoria is one of the most fire-prone areas in the world. Understanding fire risks and preparing suitable processes that recognise those risks forms a critical component of how GreenCon operates during the Fire Season, because lives may quite literally depend on it.

When milking stretched out to 10 hours every day, Alex and Robert Robertson knew something had to change at their Simpson farm. That change arrived in the form of an 80-bail rotary dairy, cutting the milking period down to two hours in morning and again in the evening. More than halving the milking time has […]

It’s a rare week that passes by without someone asking whether we’ve got any job opportunities. While the answer is (almost) always yes, anyone new to the industry needs to know about the handful of things they need, before we can take them on. To learn about what those things are, a few months back […]

We were recently asked about what other sort of work GreenCon does, outside the agricultural sector (and the dairy industry, in particular). Good question! In addition to designing and building hundreds of dairies, GreenCon has built a huge stockpile of experience with construction on gas plants and with other commercial businesses like Fonterra, Saputo and […]

Earlier this decade we were commissioned to design and construct a dairy to accommodate a 50-cow rotary platform, plus a yard capable of holding 400 cows. The outcome was – as we hope you would expect! – successful… to the point where the project was featured on Action Steel’s website. Action Steel – like GreenCon – is a […]

We have had an exciting role come about, for a Civil Construction Project Manager. While the ideal candidate will bring a background of delivering civil work, this role could also be undertaken by a suitably capable individual seeking to advance into a management function. We are a family owned and operated civil construction company, who’ve […]

60 years ago a 23 y.o. bloke called Lawrie and his wife, Thelma, started a construction company in Cobden, called L.H. and T.O. Green. In the company’s early years they focussed on projects for the Soldier Settlement Commission and the Rural Finance Commission in southwest Victoria’s Heytesbury area, building most of the dairies in the […]

In Victoria, the principal contractor (PC) is the person or entity deemed to be in control of a construction project. But there are nuances to understanding how a PC ‘is’ the PC, particularly in any case where no PC has been formally appointed by the owner of the construction site.