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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]
Keppel Prince Engineering General Manager Steve Garner, inside a wind tower made from XLERPLATE® steel. The wind towers will be located at Challicum Hills wind farm near Ararat, Vic.
12 December 2003 Tower Power
XLERPLATE® steel from BlueScope Steel is at the heart of Australia's newest power generation industry. Victorian firm Keppel Prince Engineering has used its expertise in steel tower construction to win a key role in the rapidly growing wind power generation industry. [Read more]
Air Ride Technology, SA, are fabricating 34 wind towers for a new wind farm located at Millicent in south east South Australia. The towers are constructed of XLERPLATE® steel.
16 October 2003 Wind Towers a Breeze For Air Ride Technology
South Australian company, Air Ride Technology, are powering ahead in the fabrication of 34 wind towers for a new wind farm located at Millicent in south east South Australia. [Read more]
Multi Award Winning Home at Lake Bennet 80kms south of Darwin is clad with ZINCALUME® steel, which is also used on the roofs.
05 February 2003 Darwin Verandah House Scoops Architecture Awards
A striking house in steel and glass perched midway up a steep ridge in virgin bushland near Darwin has captured two major prizes in the National Architecture Awards of 2002. The Rozak House was designed by Troppo Architects in Darwin on bushland surrounding Lake Bennet 80kms south of Darwin. [Read more]
Wind turbines located at the wind farm at Crookwell, near Goulburn in the New South Wales Southern Highlands
02 August 2000 Wind Turbines of Crookwell - Clean, Green, International Partnership Machines
Australia's first grid connected wind farm represents the way of the future in more than just electricity generation, it shows the way for successful international partnerships in emerging industries. The wind farm at Crookwell, near Goulburn in the NSW Southern Highlands, contributes five megawatts to the national electricity grid, generated by eight of the largest wind turbines yet installed in Australia. [Read more]