Since 1985, QIC has been providing a quality service in commercial, industrial and mining roof and wall cladding. In February 2004, Drew Carruthers and Lachlan Pegler purchased the company and embarked on a program of expansion, whilst maintaining QIC’s reputation for quality workmanship and superior project management. QIC regularly employs around 20-25 roof plumbers and additional managerial and administrative staff. Projects are undertaken in numerous locations throughout the Australia-Asian-Pacific region.

Major QIC projects

2009

• 55,000 m² acoustic cladding Darling Downs Power Station(Dalby)
• Boggo Road Busway project with Thiess
• Jilalan Rail Maintenance (Sarina) with Sommer & Staff

2008

• 50,000 m² Coles Distribution Centre with Australand
• Neerabup Power Station (Western Australia) acoustic cladding for Bilfinger Berger
• Braemar Power Station (Dalby) acoustic cladding for Bilfinger Berger
• Glennie School Pool re-roof
• Sunstate Cement Project for Sun Engineering
• Dawson Administration Complex with Sommer & Staff
• Polaris Data Centre
• Lake Vermont Coal wash plant and workshop with Thiess

2007

• Amberley Air Base redevelopment for Leighton
• Dawson Coal Mine Wash Plant with Thiess Sedgeman
• Stage 1A & 1B for Thiess Black Veatch on the Bundamba Water recycling project near Ipswich.
• Cannington Port Townsville Mineral store project with John Holland
• Conveyor cladding for TSJV at Lake Lindsay
• QIC was the inaugural winner of the MPAQ/Stramit Building Products "Roofing Installation of the Year", for the Orion Springfield Shopping Centre Project.

2006

• Hail Creek Coal Mine Expansion with Thiess Sedgeman,
• Zinc Filter and Storage Buildings in Mt Isa with Ahrens Construction
• Springfield Orion Shopping Centre for Mirvac
• Dreamworld Water Park Project with Watpac
• Work commenced on the MRTT Airbus Hangars, LMU and HQ at Amberley Air Base with Leighton. This included considerable areas of CFC Cladding.
• Stage II of the Oakey Abattoir with McNab Constructions
• Two teams in the Innisfail district completed insurance repair work following Cyclone Larry

2005

• The 112,000m² Woolworth’s Distribution Centre in Brisbane
• CBA Browns Plains with Watpac Construction
• University of Southern Qld Fibre Composites Lab with McNab Construction
• Marist College Ashgrove Arts Precinct with Baulderstone Hornibrook
• Geham School Multi-purpose centre with QIC as the builder

2004

• Oakey Army Aviation Centre
• Workshop for Anglo Coal at Moura, with Cordukes
• Redevelopment at QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus
• Oakey Abattoir expansion
• Reroofing a major water reservoir for Brisbane Water
• Griffith University Gold Coast Hospital expansion

Pre 2004

• RAAF base in Townsville with Leighton Contractors
• Catholic University at Banyo, Brisbane
• 63,000m² of roof and wall cladding with Thiess at the Lavarack Army Barracks, Townsville
• MIM Copper Refineries, Townsville
• Century Mine Storage facility at Karumba, N. Qld
• Bengalla Coal project in the Hunter Valley,
• Mt Isa Mines lead concentrators re-roof.
• Sun Metals Korea Zinc Refinery in Townsville.
• In 1998, QIC exported fasteners and Roof Trolley systems to the Aluar Smelter Expansion Project in Argentina. Fastening systems as well as supervision were supplied to the Inco Nickel Mine Expansion, in Indonesia.
• The largest contract undertaken to date has been an $A11.5 million project of 150,000m², with 100,000+ man hours of accident free work time at the Comalco Aluminium Smelter Boyne Island - Gladstone Qld from 1995 -1997