Our Purpose

CSTC Pty Ltd (CSTC) is an independent, not-for-profit, privately registered training organisation. CSTC began in 1994 and since day one, CSTC’s purpose has been to provide training for all workers in the building and construction industry. Since then CSTC has grown into horticulture, business, and health industries to assist individuals in upskilling into their professions. CSTC has no beneficiaries and returns any annual financial profit toward enhancing and/or improving CSTC’s training facilities – in turn, broadening the training offered to workers in industry to gain new skills and/or refresh and upgrade existing ones.

CSTC’s singular focus has always been about improving your skills base and that of the industry and that is why CSTC lives by its motto: “We are here to improve your future”.

Vision

CSTC strives to be recognised as a learning centre of excellence for vocational education and training. CSTC is an organisation that continually seeks to achieve the highest possible standards of education, training and consultancy services specific to the construction, horticulture, business, and health industries.

Our History

CSTC was co-founded in 1994 by Gregory Simcoe (former State Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation) and John Christian (former Health and Safety Manager of the Builders Labourers Federation) out of a need to establish a specialist training centre for all building and construction industry workers. CSTC today is an independent not-for-profit nationally registered training company.

The very first CSTC Training Centre was set up across four classrooms in Amelia Street in Fortitude Valley. The practical training area was in the car park under the building. Since that time, CSTC has grown from a ‘one man band’ into one of the largest private vocational education and training (VET) providers in Queensland. CSTC’s head office and primary training centre is equipped with modern technology and equipment to ensure that our staff and students receive the very best of CSTC’s services.

CSTC is a premier training provider in four core industries in Queensland and is expanding training and consulting services into other related industries. CSTC’s success can also be attributed to the ongoing support received from its proactive Board of Directors, our funding support agencies, and the industries in which we successfully operate.

Training

CSTC is committed to being equipped with authentic, real-world industry technology, tools and equipment that fosters continuous improvement. Our facilities provide learning and practical spaces that will enable us to impart knowledge to students who can then enter the workforce equipped to succeed. Further, we endeavour to nurture improved practices within the workforce to enable construction workers to function for a longer more sustainable career.

For three decades CSTC has serviced Queensland and has become a leader in training. We work in close collaboration with state and federal governments, industry professionals, and industrial governing bodies to demonstrate, boost innovation, productivity, and economic growth.