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50th Anniversary 2020s A great team and a bright future – 2020s and beyond! Over 60% of businesses don’t survive their first 4 years so for Tomkinson Group to be reaching a 50-year milestone is a remarkable achievement. It’s a testament to our dedication, resilience, and the ability to adapt and thrive in ever-changing landscapes. […]

50th Anniversary 2010s A true legacy – 2010s​ Entering our fifth decade, technological change continued creating a faster, safer and more precise foundation for urban planning and infrastructure development, allowing Tomkinson to deliver higher levels of quality and service to our clients. Out with the fax and the CRT monitor and in with QA accreditation,

50th Anniversary 2000s Exciting new technologies – 2000s​ The land development industry took a giant leap forward in the 2000s with the advent of cutting-edge technologies, creating a transformative shift in the work of surveyors in civil design, analysing landscapes, and the precision of measurements. Sophisticated CAD, GPS, sketch up and robotic total stations started entering

50th Anniversary 1980s The developer’s complete consultant – 1980s​ At the beginning of the decade, PT Tomkinson and Associates, now having expanded services with the addition of engineering became “the developer’s complete consultant”. Retaining its Bendigo base, the business also established a wider presence across the development industry including the Melbourne office which now employed

50th Anniversary 1990s Back to basics – 1990s​ Australia entered the 1990’s with the recession we had to have. With Paul’s tenacity, his wife Kathy’s support, and making some very difficult decisions along the way, Tomkinson survived this period of economic downturn and uncertainty. The Melbourne operation was sold to the local management team (it

50th Anniversary 1970s In the beginning – 1973​ Our story began with humble beginnings in Bendigo, just as the city was experiencing an exciting period of change in the early 1970s. A town rich in history, it was a time for out with the old and in with the new and a period that saw

NEWS Community Involvement With the first shoots of Spring in the air this week, many of our clients and staff will be involved in finals of junior sporting competitions. We wish you all good luck and remind everyone of the Code of Behaviour that applies – this is kids’ sport and not the AFL, so

NEWS Sustainability and Progress Innovation, particularly information technology innovation has been accelerating rapidly. Consider for a moment that 40 years ago the first personal computer was invented and just 10 years ago smartphones entered the marketplace. Today, roughly 50% of the world own a smartphone of some capacity. The rapid innovation in computer technology becomes

NEWS Searching for the Perfect Bus Stop In today’s world we are surrounded by products and items that have been designed to make our lives easier. From cars to phones and computers, we are surrounded by things that have been created for a purpose and that are supposed to embody the tenets of design (hopefully