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Why study Construction?
UTS student Austin Fraser-Hillls chose to study Construction Project Management at UTS. This is his story.
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Austin Fraser-Hills: Construction Project Management Student
Austin: I’ve always been interested in the building side of things, whether designing or actually building it. From that then I decided the management side was the better option, you still get to be with the architects, you get to learn all the design stuff but every other trade as well, whether its trades, consultants, engineers, everything like that, and just sounded far more interesting to me, and more challenging as well.
There’s heaps of different jobs that students can get into when you do the degree. There’s the biggest range you can possibly think of. The highlight of uni so far would probably have to be we pretty much got to go and build a house in Cambodia as a subject, and that was pretty cool for us.
I’ve sorta been thrown straight into the deep end with my job and at the moment I’ve only been there for eight months now, but I’m actually site managing four different projects at once. So its pretty busy, pretty stressful but its really good, its probably the best way to learn.
It is, its a little bit tough to be honest, it sort of shocked me when I first started doing it, but all it takes is very simple time management. You’ve got to really separate you work and your uni work, and you’ve just got to make sure that when you say you’re going to do something that you actually do it.
The toughest challenge would probably be the group work. The course is, there’s not very many individual assignments but I think they obviously do it for a reason, because when you’re out in the workforce, if you’re a project manager you need to manage people and you’re managing the whole process.
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Stereotypes abound when it comes to women in construction, but UTS Construction Project Management student Maddison King is ready to challenge them head first.
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Women in Construction at UTS
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- A lot of people ask me why I chose construction. They expected me to say, "Oh, I have family in construction," or "I've had some sort of role model that was in construction." But that's not really the case for me. It was more just me wanting to challenge myself.
I've always been very interested in design and architecture, except that wasn't hands on enough for me. So just sitting in an office every day doesn't really appeal to me. I want to be out on-site and I want to be learning.
I study a Bachelor of Construction Project Management at UTS. It's a very practical subject, which is something that I absolutely love. It's very hands on. We get to go out onto site for some of our assignments.
So far, I've travelled to Cambodia to build a house. I've travelled to Nepal to build a new farming product, and I've got to go to China to learn a little bit of Chinese.
In 2017, I co-founded the UTS Women in Construction Society, and one of the main reasons why I decided to start the group was to encourage more females to enter the construction industry.
When I was in year 12, I had absolutely no idea what construction project management was or that it even existed. We have networking events that happen twice a year where industry panellist come in and speak to students.
We also have a lot of socialising events just so all the females get to know each other in different year groups and really set up their network within the university.
- I've been working in construction now for well over 20 years. I actually graduated from UTS about 32 years ago. And so I gradually, I built up my career. I didn't know that I was gonna move into construction straight away.
I guess you get success in projects that then gives you the confidence to move on to another project. The industry of construction to me is very exciting 'cause no two projects are the same.
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I think there's definitely a misconception that construction is more geared towards males. The techniques and skills you need for construction, females aren't at any disadvantage.
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The era that we're in at the moment, there's so many opportunities for women in what I guess is seen as being fairly male dominated fields in the past. Diversity in the workplace is getting stronger and greater. If you work hard and you're passionate, that will just get you so far in the working world. If you show those attributes and do that while you're at uni studying, you go into the workforce a much stronger person.
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UTS has many industry connections with construction companies, and it was through these connections that I was able to secure a position at Mirvac where I am currently a cadet. I thought that I was going to face a lot of challenges and obstacles because I was a female and especially a young female just entering the construction industry with no experience. My expectations have been completely flipped around.
Everyone that I work at here with Mirvac is so encouraging and so supportive, and they're giving me really, really good tasks to help me develop all my skills. I get to go out on-site. I get to manage subcontractors. I get to manage deliveries and orders, and it's really allowing me to grow and learn so many new things.
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Theory will only take you so far. Practical puts all of that into practice and it makes all that theory relevant. You learn quicker when you actually get on-site and see and figure out how construction works.
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I definitely think that there's a stereotype of the construction industry where if you're entering the industry, you're pretty much going to be laying bricks or doing something with a hammer, and that's what I thought of when I was in year 12 when I thought of construction except that is completely not true.
There are so many management positions available. There's residential houses, you can start your own business and you can work on really large infrastructure projects such as skyscrapers. You can work on bridges. You can work on rail networks. There's so many different options. Without construction, society would pretty much halt because we're obviously a growing community and a growing population, so construction will always be needed.
UTS would like to thank the team at Mirvac for supporting our students and allowing us the opportunity to visit their construction site.
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