Grocon and Canadian construction giant PCL have formed a Joint Venture as part of the Plenary Health team bidding for the Parkville Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

With many similarities between the two companies, Grocon's Victorian General Manager Michael Loterzo said they believed their skills would complement each other to further strengthen the team.

"This partnership will increase our capacity to successfully deliver the PCCC for the people of Victoria," he said.

"PCL and Grocon have similar values but bring different qualities to the table in terms of this bid."

PCL has delivered 16 Public Private Partnership projects in Canada and North America, including six hospital/research centres and two cancer treatment centres.

It has worked extensively with Plenary Health in Canada and President and Chief Operating Officer Brad Nelson said the company was also looking forward to working with Grocon.

"Both of our companies are originally family owned, with PCL now being entirely owned by its employees," he said.

"Grocon's values of safety, sustainability, community and innovation closely match our values and we both believe in excellence achieved through hard work and a can do attitude.

"And the local knowledge and expertise of Grocon is essential in delivering a complex inner city building on such a large site."

Mr Loterzo and Mr Nelson said the two companies may also look to work together on other large scale projects in the future.

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Grocon is a privately owned Australian construction, development and funds management company, started by Luigi Grollo in Melbourne in the 1950s. The current CEO is his grandson, Daniel Grollo, and the company has expanded during the past 50 years to Sydney and Brisbane, and also has an office in Dubai in the Middle East. It has built many iconic structures throughout Australia, such as the 300 metre tall Eureka Tower in Melbourne. Grocon has recently completed a carbon neutral building called Pixel, believed to be the first of its kind in the world. It is also constructing facilities for the chronically homeless in Australia's eastern states, in partnership with the not for profit sector, based on the Common Ground model which originated in New York.

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