INDUSTRY PARTNERS n Auswide Plumbing and Civil www.auswideplumbing.com.au Auswide Plumbing & Civil, established in 2007, delivers high-performing civil and utilitiy infrastructure projects across Victoria. Trusted for safety, quality, and technical expertise, Auswide completes projects with a team of superstars for water authorities, road & rail major projects, private developers and government projects. n CMP Consulting Group Pty Ltd www.cmpgroup.com.au CMP Consulting Group is an Australian-owned engineering consultancy specialising in water infrastructure. CMP partners with public and private clients, delivering innovative, sustainable solutions in design, construction, and asset management, with a commitment to quality and creating a better water future for communities across Australia. anchored in three priorities. The first is service excellence, ensuring that whether the client is Barwon Water or an external organisation, the experience is consistently professional, customerfocused, and values-driven. The second is safety, with particular attention to reducing musculoskeletal injuries. While BAS is not necessarily operating in high-risk environments dayto-day, repetitive physical demands are impacting well-being. Leadership is focused on redesigning tasks and improving work methods to reduce strain and prevent injury. The third is external growth, expanding revenuegenerating work that supports the parent authority’s affordability objectives. In practical terms, that means continuing to develop new capabilities, selecting external projects aligned with BAS’s quality and governance standards, and delivering margins that help keep regional customer bills low. A REGIONAL MODEL WITH BROADER RELEVANCE Barwon Asset Solutions is not simply a maintenance unit. It is a deliberately designed structure that delivers essential services, builds local capability, creates pathways into trades, and generates external revenue to support customer affordability. It is, in effect, a regional prosperity model expressed through operational strategy. From civil response crews and complex brownfield projects to WSUD maintenance, land rehabilitation, and emerging wastewater heat recovery, BAS reflects what happens when a utility aligns infrastructure delivery with community outcomes, then builds the business architecture to sustain it. As BAScapabilities continue to expand, its impact may prove to extend well beyond the Geelong region, offering a blueprint for how water authorities can strengthen service delivery, workforce development, and financial resilience at the same time. 32 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 08, ISSUE 02
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