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Graham Mannix

Graham started work in 1958 as an apprentice draftsman and started his own drafting business in 1972. He commenced his present Engineering and Construction Services business in 1983. His 50 year career has been dominated by a diversity of engineering and building disciplines which have included all facets of Structural Steel, Reinforced Concrete, Prestressed Concrete, Precast Concrete, Materials Handling, Petrochemical Piping, Civil Engineering and Architecture. This diversity makes him a unique practitioner of construction and engineering skills. He obtained his QBSA Builders Licence in 1991.

His 16 years of experience based in Far North Queensland has equipped him to deal with remote area construction and engineering logistics in addition at this time he spent 5 years managing his own remote Structural - Mechanical Fabrication and Mine Maintenance business where the issues of remoteness presented challenges to "normal" thinking and solutions and gave birth to a passion for problem solving and a "can do - shall do" attitude. During this period he also developed a long held desire for good tropical housing design and won a 2008 Queensland Building Designers State Award for an Aboriginal Duplex House design.

His empathy with and understanding of Aboriginal Australians and issues effecting them has seen him performing advisory roles to Aboriginal traditional owners and State Government. He also performs similar functions for Indigenous Fijian Traditional owners in the RakiRaki Ra area of Fiji.

So whether it is bedding down in a swag on a Cape York construction site or Planning and Managing a major Process / Mining Plant Shutdown or constructing a subdivision in Fiji or Aboriginal Housing he is in his element.