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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
10 April 2012 Alpine Sensation
Insistent visits from a beetle ultimately provided the insight James Stockwell was seeking for this award-winning house. [Read more]
ZINALCUME® steel and LYSAGHT BONDEK® were used to build Tunba House, which is the epitome of flexible and beautiful design teamed with practical living.
11 June 2010 Sunshine Coast Luxury Home Dazzles
When it comes to designing a house built for luxury and sophistication, Tunba House just off of Queensland's Sunshine Coast is the epitome of flexible and beautiful design teamed with practical living. [Read more]
Award winning Yarrabee Homestead contributes to good environmental design and construction by using COLORBOND® steel as a building product.
11 June 2010 Advanced Design In A Mine Subsidence Affected Area
Set in the rolling hills of the NSW hinterland, the awarding winning Yarrabee Homestead is an advanced design for a mine subsidence affected area. [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]
Prefabricated steel building system uses steel framing and cladding made from LYSAGHT MINI ORB®
28 March 2007 Producing Sustainable Housing En Masse
As a growing number of Australian architects expand the use of corrugated steel from residential roofs to external and internal walls, some believe the time is right to bring the techniques of mass production to bear on sustainable steel building products. [Read more]
Oyster Cove home south of Hobart with roofing, guttering and partial wall cladding in ZINCALUME® steel.
06 February 2004 Award Winning Home Causes Minimal Disturbance
An innovative Tasmanian builder has created a striking bush home which showcases environmentally sensitive construction. Builder David Leake's Oyster Cove home south of Hobart is an innovative step in environmental awareness and fire resistance. [Read more]
Steve Edmund, Managing Director of Haywards Engineering, manufacturing 60 metre high wind towers for a wind farm near Woolnorth, Tasmania. The towers are constructed of XLERPLATE® steel.
17 January 2004 Towers Harness The Wind
It's the cleanest air on earth. And it's now helping Hydro Tasmania produce clean electricity. According to the air monitoring station at Cape Grim, the purity of the air that blows in from the Southern Ocean across the north-east tip of Tasmania is the cleanest that has ever been measured on the planet. [Read more]