Background leading to the fabric structures

David's background leading to the fabric structures is a long and winding road

This article gives you a few of the twists and turns that contributed David's background leading to the fabric structures at Taurus Fabric Build. His passion centres around supplying quality fabric structures with a long life, that can help to make you business more flexible and efficient. 

We are the first to point out when there are other types of buildings that could be a better option, and are comfortable to have this conversation. Your business profitability is important to us.

To give you our background leading to the fabric structures in a quick race callers version

Fabric Structures

  • David started marketing and installing Fabric Structures late in 2004
  • He has sold over 1,000 and installed over 200 in Australia and overseas
  • The focus is to find the best whole-of-life solution to give long term profitability
  • We endeavour to create a light environmental footprint
  • End-of-life value and ease of selling the structure at the end of a project is important
  • Taurus together with Allshelter have experience team of riggers for installations
  • 50%+ of Taurus's installs have been in remote locations in Australia or overseas
  • David has a Diploma of Building, and a depth of hands-on building skills
  • In July 2022 David was employed by Allshelter as an Account Manager and to create a Northern Australia branch of the company
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Some of David Burston's Background that has influenced his thinking

  • Farm Management 800ha NE Victoria until the body gave out after 25 years
    • Sheep, cattle, cropping  pasture improvement, hay and irrigation
    • Built a 20ha irrigation lake for 50ha of irrigation, own earthmoving equipment
    • Lifted production four fold over this period
    • Modified or rebuilt much of the farming equipment to improve outcomes
    • During 82 drought built high efficiency shearing sheds
    • Developed a new system to graft walnut trees lifting graft rates from 20% to 90%
    • Pilot with Cessna 172D
    • General skills, trained sheep dogs and horses, built beach buggies and was a ski instructor (Mt Buller was an hour away.)
  • Aquaculture
    • Used the irrigation lake to produce Yabbies (fresh water crayfish)
    • Formed Australian Yabby Farms and exported to Europe and Asia
    • Designed and built an automated hatchery producing a million yabby juveniles/month
    • Developed a system for synchronising native fish breeding with the full moon and improved juvenile survival rates by over 500%
    • Over six years designed a $150m co-operative aquaculture vertically integrated project for four Pacific Nations, with common desk selling in the US, Asia and Europe. Funding evaporated with GFC
  • Peppermint and vegetables
    • Managed NE Victorian Peppermint industry from R&D to commercial production
    • Installed 300hp still, modified group farming equipment to suit peppermint production
    • Grew 100,000 cauliflowers and broccoli while promoting the local vegetable industry
    • Worked as a QA officer for a fabric manufacture company and packed porridge at Uncle Tobys to fund vegetable enterprise
  • Environment rehabilitation
    • Business Manager in Cairns for company specialising in environmental restoration
  • Cairns Businesses (with partner)
    • Provided training and coaching for Quality, Environmental and Safety auditing
    • Had businesses for website building, tele-marketing and promotions.
  • Communication Training
    • Trained over 1,000 community, corporate and indigenous participants to build their communication skills in PNG, QLD and NT.
    • Coached and mentored 70 TEDx speakers with TEDxJCU Cairns
    • Trained and mentored Papua New Guinea Toastmaster clubs for their first 2 years
    • David has been a Toastmaster since 2008 and also works with Improv comedy.
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Coaching
    • Pitch Master at the local innovation centre theSPACE for 4 years until it closed in 2020
    • Started the new Taurus office, "The Bunker coworking Space" in May 2021 in Cairns
    • Provide business coaching and support for entrepreneurs and growing businesses
    • The focus is now on Developing Allshelter's business in Northern Australia and PNG

From the above background leading to the fabric structures you can see the long term interest David has in business management and problem solving. This is what he brings to the Fabric Structure business. At Taurus together with Allshelter they will provide quality fabric structure options to suit your particular needs.

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