1. Our New And Improved Website
2. Research Into The Performance Of Residential Fencing in Bushfires
3. Fitting In
4. LYSAGHT® Adds Practical Experience To Mobile Roll Forming Service
5. Shopping Centre Project Includes A Long Line Of Roofs
6. Sweet Sucess For The Refinery
7. Fast Facts

BlueScope Steel has relaunched its award winning Australian Products website - www.bluescopesteel.com.au - with a new look and easier to access features. The new website takes advantage of more sophisticated back-end technology to deliver a new site structure that provides for a faster, more logical route to information, tools and features. View the new site at

http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=54NewWebsite

A recent testing project carried out by the Co-operative Research Centre for Bushfire and the CSIRO, has revealed that different types of fencing can play an important part in defending homes against the threat of bushfire. The research investigated the effects of typical Australian bushfire exposures on residential boundary fences made from steel, hardwood and treated pine. Read the results at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=54Bushfires

A designer being applauded for succeeding in the difficult task of making a project stand out to the client, whilst simultaneously blending into its environment is David Walker. His Building Designers Association award winning home in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, is a great example of how this can be done. See it at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=54FittingIn

BlueScope Lysaght's first mobile roll forming project in Queensland has helped leading roofing contractor, Fultoncote Pty Ltd, complete a major job in minimum time with maximum productivity. The project to roof the new Virgin Blue maintenance hangar at Brisbane airport required sheet lengths of 56.5 metres, which could not have been achieved without on-site roll forming. Read how BlueScope Lysaght were able to assist at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=54Mobile

One of Sydney's major shopping centres is in the midst of a A$350 million redevelopment that will double its retail area to almost 100,000 square metres and create a new landmark retail destination in Sydney's Greater West. The redevelopment of Westpoint Blacktown uses LYSAGHT LONGLINE 305® profile for prominent sections of the new centre's roof. Read on at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=54LongLine

The heritage listed Colonial Sugar Refinery Building at Cutter's Landing on the fringe of Brisbane's CBD has won two Queensland architecture awards for developer Mirvac. The exterior of The Refinery, erected in 1893, has been totally restored as the centrepiece of the A$250 million Cutters Landing project, with the roof and tower areas completely reclad with LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® sheeting made from COLORBOND® steel. Find out more at:
http://www.bluescopesteel.com.au/redirect.cfm?to=54Refinery

• The wettest place in the world is Mawsynram, India, which receives an average of 11,870 mm per year
• In Australia, the wettest town is Tully in North QLD, which has an annual average rainfall of 4,204 mm
• In contrast - the driest place in the world is Wadi Halfa in Sudan, with an annual average rainfall of less than 2.5 mm
• In Australia, Mulka Bore, west of Lake Eyre in South Australia is the driest area with an average annual rainfall of only 100 mm
• The record for the most rainy days in a year in Australia is held by Waratah PO, Tasmania with 314 rainy days in 1955

Thanks for reading,

Matt Lynch
BlueScope Steel - Internet Manager

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