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The following is a news article from INDAILY ADELAIDE’S INDEPENDENT NEWS. Holden has confirmed the sale of its former vehicle assembly site in Elizabeth to a Melbourne-based developer for an undisclosed sum. The company says the Pelligra Group plans to turn the site into a business park with a range of industrial, manufacturing, construction,...

Holiday Inn Werribee, the newest hotel in Western Melbourne, to open in 2020. Sydney, Australia, 30 November 2017 – Continuing the Australian momentum for the world’s largest brand family, Holiday Inn®, IHG® today announces the signing of Holiday Inn Melbourne Werribee, in partnership with partner Pelligra Group and Citinova. Opening in 2020,...

An iconic family business with a prestige reputation in the property development and construction industry – explore how Pelligra was constructed....

Steelforce is one of Australia’s leading manufacturing structural steel companies with a well-established track record of successful operations....

For long, humans have been stuck in the mud using nothing but man power and the help of noisy b-grade, high-emission equipment that are today considered obsolete....

Pelligra is proud to announce that the Pascoe Business Centre will soon open its doors for residents living in or around neighbouring suburbs of the City of Moreland such as Coolaroo, Roxburgh Park, Campbellfield and Meadow Heights. The Pascoe Business Centre, located on 1500 Pascoe Vale Road, Coolaroo is the North’s newest business destinati...

In 2011, Pelligra was granted the right to redevelop the ETA factory. The building and grounds had been substantially altered by vandalism and progressive degradation and remained vacant since 2001. Pelligra received a heritage permit which allowed the demolition of the saw toothed roof factory buildings and reconstruction of the office building in...

According to Building with Waste, a book about building with waste materials, it is presumed that human settlements produce 1.3bn tonnes worth of solid waste products....

There are several stages involved in the construction process. Understanding all of these steps is vital to anyone within the construction industry and to the every day individual....

Pelligra are pleased to be part of another project in 2 Jessica Way, Truganina. The latest landmark is drainage business Casabene Group where Pelligra has worked closely with the business family tree to achieve a fully functional warehouse. The size of the site covers 11,608 m² and the warehouse will house office facilities, a workshop …

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House-hunting can be daunting, especially a time-consuming process for many. After attending countless open for inspections, you soon realise that half of the homes didn’t live up to your expectations, or just weren’t your forte....

Houses are now literally shipped to your front door as practically a portal living lifestyle: from dock to door....

A world within 719 High Street, Epping. Empire Epping lies at the heart of one of Melbourne’s fastest growing cultural and professional hubs....

Pelligra would like to reveal its latest development: 37-43 Cherry Street. Pelligra will soon transform the existing car park on Cherry Street....

Pelligra are proud to announce its latest project with Astro Apartments. The plan to construct an innovative development will see a high-end breakthrough in the escalating residential boom, particularly in that of the Sydenham location....

Be ready, be part of Pelligra’s development: The Alpine....

They don’t make them like that anymore. Usually there’s a very good reason – or several. Advances in techniques and materials, without doubt, but also the need to get more things done more quickly and efficiently to be commercially viable....

Housing affordability in Australia is one of the hot topics of recent times, and one that has been discussed occasionally during the federal election campaign – albeit without any firm policies to address it coming from either major party....

If you were to ask many business owners to list the most important aspects to consider when building a new facility, ergonomics and aesthetics might not be toward the top of the list – but they should be....

When you walk into someone’s home for the first time, it’s pretty easy to get a good feel for what they’re like by looking around....

Anyone who has worked in a facility that wasn’t designed specifically for either their job or the business as a whole knows all about compromises....

The current community protest over the proposal to build elevated sections of railway as part of the Victorian government’s plan to remove level crossings raises an important question: when does the greater good of the community take precedence over the preferences of a smaller number of citizens? There are numerous examples in Melbourne a...

We Melburnians are more than happy to puff out our chests a bit when we hear that Melbourne has been named the World’s Most Liveable City (again) by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), but do we really know what that means? Do we care whether it’s more by good fortune than good management? Do we wonder whether …

There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to grow up … a bit … sort of. It comes later in life for some, but a pivotal point for many is when we graduate from toy cars to real ones. Can we make it look nicer, go faster, sound more powerful, or …

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As the AFL and NRL seasons drew to a close, we got to thinking: is there any similarity between sport and construction? Our friends who support Carlton and Brisbane in the AFL and the Newcastle Knights and Wests Tigers in the NRL will certainly be hoping that their respective ‘rebuilds’ are well-planned, fully resourced, built …

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Last week’s episode of the satirical ABC TV series Utopia (series 2, episode 3) gave us some food for thought. The storyline had the Nation Building Authority team faced with the challenge of justifying why what had been proposed as a new foreshore park had somehow become an exclusive apartment development, with practically zero public space. O...

We love commercial construction, but the buildings themselves are devalued if they aren’t ‘user friendly’, so we never forget that we are creating facilities to make the day-to-day lives of the people who work in them better. At Pelligra, we recognise that our people are our most valuable assets, and we simply assume that all …

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The concept of the suburban shopping strip, with a number of shops and cafes side by side along either side of a prominent road, may not be unique to Australia, but it is completely unknown in some parts of the world. Population density, transport access and climate are amongst the factors that have made massive, …

My previous blog post listed 11 urban renewal projects from around the world which have either been completed or which are well underway....

  When we started looking at the most prominent and successful urban renewal projects around the world, it became clear that they come in many shapes and sizes....

When the Victorian Government announced changes to the plans for the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area (FBURA) in April, there were a few raised eyebrows....