Commercial carpentry and joinery for government and heritage buildings
DICE Contracting employs licensed commercial carpenters delivering structural carpentry, fitout carpentry, custom joinery, heritage timber repair and security joinery for government and commercial buildings across Australia.
- Structural carpentry
- Fitout carpentry
- Custom & security joinery
- Heritage timber repair
- Doors & hardware
- Remediation carpentry
Our carpenters are on our payroll. That is what lets us hold tight programmes on refurbishment and remediation work inside operating facilities.
It is also where the apprentice pipeline sits, and where our contracts produce the most direct Indigenous employment outcomes.
Carpentry and joinery services
- Structural carpentry: framing, roof structures, floor systems, timber repairs
- Fitout carpentry: partitions, linings, ceilings, doors and hardware, skirtings and architraves
- Custom joinery: reception counters, bench seating, storage, cabinetry, shelving
- Timber flooring: supply, installation, repair and refinishing
- Timber decking, pergolas, shade structures and external timber works
- Door and window installation, including purpose-built security doors and windows
- Heritage timber restoration and profile matching
- Make-good and defect rectification carpentry
Heritage timber and restoration carpentry
Regional courthouses and other heritage government buildings need carpentry that matches the existing fabric down to the profiles, species, fixings and finishes. We have delivered heritage works across the NSW Justice portfolio, including roof restoration at Murwillumbah Courthouse, backed by a network of specialist heritage subcontractors built up through that work.
Security and custom joinery
In justice, corrections and immigration facilities, joinery has to survive deliberate attack as well as ordinary wear. We have installed purpose-built security windows and doors at Youth Justice Centre Riverina, and built anti-climb walls and a non-contact room at Adelaide Immigration Transit Accommodation.
Remediation carpentry
Fire, flood and vermin remediation is largely a carpentry problem. Strip out damaged linings, repair or replace structure, then reinstate linings, doors, joinery and finishes. At Wellington Correctional Centre, removing and reinstating every damaged and contaminated interior lining across a whole jail wing was what held the three-month programme together.
Apprenticeships and the trade pipeline
A local apprentice carpenter taken on for the Tyalgum General Store rectification has since worked on the Murwillumbah Courthouse roof restoration and the Youth Justice Centre Acmena refurbishment. An additional apprentice was employed at DICE’s North Coast location through the BGIS courthouses contract.
Projects that prove it
Tyalgum General Store
The general store at Tyalgum in the NSW Northern Rivers had been closed on compliance grounds, leaving a flood-affected community without a shop. DICE Contracting rectified the compliance issues and the store reopened after six weeks.
Wellington Correctional Centre
DICE Contracting delivered a $4.5 million remediation and future-proofing programme at Wellington Correctional Centre in central-western NSW for BGIS, completing it in three months after the 2021 mouse plague rendered a wing uninhabitable.
Carpentry & Joinery: questions we get asked
Does DICE Contracting employ its own carpenters?
Yes. Carpentry is a directly employed, self-performed trade at DICE Contracting, supported by licensed builders and specialist subcontractors where a job calls for them.
Can DICE Contracting do heritage timber restoration?
Yes, including works across heritage NSW courthouses and roof restoration at Murwillumbah Courthouse, supported by a network of specialist heritage subcontractors.
Can DICE Contracting install security-rated doors, windows and joinery?
Yes. DICE Contracting has installed purpose-built security windows and doors at Youth Justice Centre Riverina and constructed anti-climb walls and a non-contact room at Adelaide Immigration Transit Accommodation.
Does DICE Contracting take carpentry apprentices?
Yes. Apprentice carpenters have been employed through projects at Tyalgum and on the NSW North Coast, and have gone on to work on further government projects.
Where does DICE Contracting provide carpentry services?
Sydney, Newcastle, Murwillumbah and the NSW North Coast, Brewarrina and western NSW, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Nowra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Darwin.
Our other service lines
Building & Construction
Capital works, extensions, fitouts and security upgrades for government and community clients. Most of it happens on occupied, operational and secure sites.
02Building Remediation & Refurbishment
Rectification of fire, flood, contamination and compliance failures in occupied public buildings. This is our strongest evidenced capability, and the programme is almost always urgent.
03Project Management
Head contractor delivery, design and construct, and multi-site programme management, including heritage works and staging around live operations.
04Facilities Maintenance
Statutory, preventative and reactive maintenance across dispersed government property portfolios, including communities that have no specialist contractor market of their own.
05Civil Works
Site civil packages supporting building programmes, plus standalone community infrastructure. We own the plant, so a remote site never waits on a hire market that barely exists.
Building a tender? Start with our capability statement.
Send us the scope, the site and the closing date. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right contractor for it. If we are, you get a compliant response with referees, insurances and Supply Nation certification attached.