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Late last year the Pichelmann team welcomed Ben Leeson on board as a foreman for Pichelmann Maintenance & Minor works.

The rapid success and growth of the PM&MW venture put us in the position to find someone with Ben’s expertise and experience to work with Steve and the rest of the crew to continue to deliver the level of service synonymous with Pichelmann on an ever-growing range of projects, in a market that we greatly underestimated.

Ben, a Queanbeyan local, grew up in the Canberra region and did his carpentry trade for a local high end builder, before venturing out on his own as Leeson Carpentry Service. Here he gained valuable experience in running a business, dealing with customers and being solely responsible for delivering quality outcomes. This also gave him a good foundation in smaller projects such as kitchen and bathroom renovations, outdoor spaces, water leak remediation work and he worked along side some of our favourite suppliers such Thors Hammer. Welcome to the Team Ben!

The HIA held the industry awards for the ACT and surrounding region at parliament house on the 5th November, the Pichelmann team was fortunate enough to attend with 2 of our projects nominated for awards in a number of categories.

With such high standards on show from all the entrants, we went with measured optimism, hoping that the high standards we hold for ourselves would be recognised by the judging team.

We found ourselves very privileged to have been awarded a number of awards for our Tennyson Crs project; New Kitchen of the Year, Kitchen of the Year, and Bathroom of the Year – a wonderful result!

We also received a commendation for our Tennyson crs project in the Custom Built Home $3mil+ category, and a commendation for our Dugan St Project in the Custom Built Home $1.5mil to $3mil category.

Thanks must go to all involved in the project including our amazing client, and of cause to the HIA for a wonderful night, and for all they do for our industry

The team at Pichelmann would like to congratulate A&P Leemhuis Builders for hosting an amazing charity night to raise funds for Hands Across Canberra.

Your hard work and vision made for an impressively successful event.

Eugene and I had a wonderful evening thanks to the invite from Wayne ( All type electrical ) to join his table.

We appreciated the opportunity to join in the fund raising for such an amazing organisation.

 A quick photo opportunity with Shane Jacobson was one of the many delights of the evening.

At the end of a year no one will ever forget, it was nice to finish on a high at Pichelmann Custom Building. Our team took out two of the most prestigious awards offered by the Master Builders Association for the ACT and surrounding region.

The first award went to Eugene for Emerging Residential Builder of the Year, largely for his work on the Vasey Crs Project. This unique award isn’t guaranteed to be part of the awards system each year, but rather it is only awarded in years when the judging committee feel there is an appropriate candidate. It’s with this in mind that it is also worth looking back to 2008 when Parry won the same award – surely a good omen.

The second award went to the team that worked on the Vasey Crs project, which won Custom Built/Project Home over $2million, also known as the Open Category. The level of detail and precision that the team and surrounding trades demonstrated on this project is what ensured it was delivered to the incredibly standard that it was. Everyone at Pichelmann felt like they had contributed to this project – a true team effort.

After a challenging year it was a great way to bring things to a close and the entire team is looking forward to the challenges and hopefully the successes that 2021 will bring as well as delivering more projects of this calibre.