Cute comp to back charity

Contractors build houses for luncheon

WILL Aulsebrook is enjoying a competition-winning cubby house while he can, because it’s about to be auctioned off for a worthy cause.

Designs from three of Toowoomba’s biggest construction companies, McNab Construction, Hutchinson Builders and FKG Group, have been revealed to the public as part of a friendly competition on Friday morning.

The cubby houses, which were designed and built with sustainability in mind and had to be able to fit on a ute trailer, will be auctioned off at the It’s A Bloke Thing Foundation luncheon to support prostate cancer research.

FKG Group executive chairman and head of the foundation Gary Gardner said it was a good chance for some friendly competition between rivals.

“It’s great to have friendly competition among three

companies across town,” he said.

“Normally we’re competitors during the week, but we’ve come together for something like this to raise some money and it’s a bit of fun too,” Hutchinson area director Rob Weymouth added.

No prizes were handed out, but McNab earned the bragging rights when judge Linda Rosengreen from Master Builders chose its

multi-levelled design with a slide.

CEO Michael McNab said the designers, cadets Riley Mellor and Terry Heslin, could breathe a sigh of relief.

“The two guys who did it, if they lose today, they don’t have a job on Monday. They’ve been told that a few times,” he joked.

The It’s a Bloke Thing Foundation last year raised $1.3 million for prostate cancer research.

PHOTOS: TOM GILLESPIE SLIDE AND SMILE: Toowoomba boy Will Aulsebrook tries out the winning cubby house by McNab Construction, which beat designs by Hutchinson Builders and FKG Group. All buildings will be auctioned off in August.

Hutchinson Builders area manager Rob Weymouth and FKG Group executive chairman Gary Gardner discuss their companies' respective designs for cubby houses.