About CSTC Pty Ltd (Registration Code: 0699)
“We are here to improve your future”
About CSTC Pty Ltd
CSTC Pty Ltd is a not-for-profit, privately Registered Training Organisation (RTO#0699), which was established in 1994. CSTC Pty Ltd operates as:
- Construction Skills Training Centre
- Embark College
- Succession Training and Assessment
- Kia Ora Training and Assessment
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”.
Our 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.
We have since expanded our branding to encompass:
- Construction Skills Training Centre – Our construction training brand, which has a Brisbane and Gold Coast campus
- Embark College – Our non-construction brand, which encompasses clients such as schools
- Succession Training and Assessment – Our civil construction brand, which extends into Central Queensland
- Kia Ora Training and Assessment – Our Caboolture campus, which has a focus on Landscape construction and Civil construction.
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.
Our 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.
Our Commitment To Sustainability
CSTC is committed to reduce its environmental impact and carbon footprint by incporpirating principles of environment sustainability throughout all relevant areas of operations through:
- Maximising sustainable resource use
- Protecting the environment through the prevention of pollution and waste
- Optimising our renewable energy sources
- Purchasing energy efficient plant and equipment
- Actively focussing on email and web based communication