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Prestige home at Bridgeman Downs features a frame made from TRUECORE® steel guaranteeing a light weight framing option without comprising on strength and durability.
10 March 2010 Advanced Framing Gives New Found Freedom To Prestige Home Owners
Local Queensland businesses are turning to house framing made from TRUECORE® steel due to its excellent spanning capabilities for large scale homes. [Read more]
Bush Retreat on NSW south coast features roofing and walling made from ZINCALUME® steel and a steel framing which was chosen as they are bushfire and termite proof and touch the earth lightly.
10 March 2010 Bush Retreat Uses Steel To Overcome Site Challenges
Architect Michael Marshman has designed a striking bush retreat for a challenging isolated site on the NSW far south coast. [Read more]
Shakespeare Centre for Scouting at Camp Cottermouth, ACT features modular buildings with roofing made from COLORBOND® steel in colour Dune® and walling in the colours Bushland® and Woodland Grey®.
10 March 2010 Steel Saves The Day For Scouts
Following a devastating bushfire, the Shakespeare Centre for Scouting at Camp Cottermouth, ACT, has turned to steel covered modular buildings to rebuild their centre. The scout's original cabins were burnt down during the 2003 bushfires and had to be redesigned to incorporate steel only finishes and exteriors to remove the danger of another fire taking out the centre. [Read more]
Eastern View of Zero Energy house made from straw bales and COLORBOND® steel. Photo by Bridget Puszka of BP Architects.
16 February 2010 Zero Energy House
The brief was to design a contemporary, sustainable house made from straw bales using an existing post and beam structure and to design a home that required minimal heating or cooling. [Read more]
A stunning example of sustainable best practise building, this Esperance home features roof and cladding made from COLORBOND® steel.
12 February 2010 Fly Into The Ford Residence
The Ford residence, set on a 400 acre farmlet in Esperance, Western Australia, is a stunning example of sustainable best practise building. [Read more]
Western elevation of Ecobode home which features roofing, guttering and walling made from both ZINCALUME® steel and COLORBOND® steel.
12 February 2010 Breaking The Mould With Ecobodes
The Ecobode, designed by Dick Clarke of Envirotecture, is an award winning design concept for a sustainable home which broke the stereotypical project home mould. [Read more]
LYSAGHT CUSTOM BLUE ORB® and COLORBOND® steel were used in this low maintenance, low cost, environmentally conscious Snowy Mountains Home. Note: photograph by Patrick Bingham-Hall
13 January 2010 Snowy Mountains House Scoops COLORBOND® Award At This Year’s AIA Awards
The Snowy Mountains House, located in a lakeside village around 20kms from Jindabyne in NSW, is an unusual and striking holiday home designed by James Stockwell of James Stockwell Architects. [Read more]
This Japanese inspired family home in Noosa, Queensland has roofing and guttering made from COLORBOND® steel.
22 October 2009 A Family Effort Creates The Perfect Waterside Residence
Situated on the calm waters of sunny Noosa, Queensland, is the beautiful Japanese inspired Saltwater House designed by this year's BDAA Design Excellence winner, Chris Clout. [Read more]
This house at Yallingup, Western Australia, uses roofing and walling made from COLORBOND® steel.
16 October 2009 House Treads Lightly Leaving Minimal Footprint
Modest yet strikingly sculptural, Yallingup house in Western Australia has been designed as an energy efficient and lightweight home that sits perfectly on the sloping land on which it is built. [Read more]
These units at Tarragindi, South East Queensland comprise roofing and guttering both made from COLORBOND® steel in Bushland®, Windspray® and Woodland Grey® with supplementary wall finishes made from LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® and ZINCALUME® steel.
29 July 2009 Retreating To The Treetops At Tarragindi
In beautiful Tarragindi in South East Queensland, building designer Peter Woods from Concept 2 Completion Designs and his family have designed and constructed the Treetops at Tarragindi. [Read more]