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Profile on Tim Marshall

AS Operations Director at Perth luxury home builder RiverStone, Tim Marshall heads up the construction, estimating, scheduling, drafting and accounts teams. But this switched-on new dad always welcomes the chance to get out of the office and onto a building site. The company’s registered builder, Tim is well aware of the day-to-day demands of crafting ...

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Building houses of stone in the information age…

Recently, technology website BIT (www.bit.com.au) published an article about the growing use of technology here at RiverStone. Our Operations Manager, Tim, describes the use of iPads, iPhones, 3D design software, and even social media to create a “virtual office” – keeping RiverStone staff and clients well informed at their desk, out in the field, or even ...

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Architect v Design & Build luxury builders

AFTER putting their building plans in the “too hard basket” for almost eight months, Katherine and Stephen Gooderson turned to RiverStone to finally get their project up and running. The couple had already paid to have plans drawn up for a new family home on their 900sq m block in East Fremantle. But drawn-out negotiations ...

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Building houses, past and future

Did you know that the way we build homes in WA today is based on the same techniques the Romans used more than 2,000 years ago? The only thing the Roman builder wouldn’t understand is electricity.  Everything else would be perfectly the same.  Is this a good thing?  Well, in a simple low-cost world it ...

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