1. Bush Retreat Overcomes Many Challenges
2. New COLORBOND® steel Television Commercials
3. Jobs Pile High For Morson
4. Xstrata Uses SURELINE® At Mount Isa Mines
5. Fast Facts

Designing a bush retreat for an isolated site on the New South Wales Far South Coast created challenges at every turn for architect Michael Marshman. Here was the familiar restriction of budget limitations, then the twin hazards of bushfires and termites and finally the logistical nightmares of tracks not designed for heavy loads of building materials. [Read More]

COLORBOND® steel has been inspiring Australian building and design, from family homes to grand public buildings, for over 40 years. Beautiful, durable and versatile, it is a material that allows you the design flexibility to build the home you want, where you want. View our latest television advertisements. [View here]

Morson Engineering will help traffic flow in Newcastle after winning a local contract in September to supply piling for the new Tourle Street Bridge project. The bridge will be built east of the existing bridge and have two 3.5 metre wide lanes, two 2 metre wide shoulders and a 1.8 metre wide footway. [Read more]

The challenge of building an 11kV power line through rugged, hilly terrain with limited access has been overcome on a Mount Isa mine site through the use of lightweight, high strength SURELINE® steel sub transmission power poles supplied by BlueScope Steel. [Read more]

Beware the Ides of March ...

• In the Roman calendar, the term ides (middle day of the month) was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other 8 months.
• The term Ides of March (Latin Idus Martiae) is well known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BC.
• The term has come to be used as a metaphor for impending doom.

Thanks for reading,

Simon Grimes
Manager, Steel Direct

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