Home > Tools & Resources > Case Studies

Sustainable Steel

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]
National award winning Eco Castle is an eco-friendly contemporary family home that sets the trend for environmentally integrated residencies and utilises COLORBOND® steel throughout.
17 September 2008 The King Of The Eco Castle
Situated on the fringe of Tasmania’s famous southern forests just south of Hobart, Mike Cleaver’s national award winning Eco Castle is an eco-friendly contemporary family home that sets the trend for environmentally integrated residencies and utilises COLORBOND® steel throughout. [Read more]
Innovation House at the Ecovillage in Currumbin uses COLORBOND® steel and has a 17,000 litre WATERPOINT CLASSIC® water tank.
10 April 2008 Sustainable Innovation
Billed as the Gold Coast's most sustainable house, Innovation House 3 at the Ecovillage in Currumbin will be among the first homes in Australia to carry a five star building and energy rating. [Read more]
COLORBOND® steel was used for the entire external surface area, both for its looks and low maintenance qualities in this inner city Melbourne building.
15 November 2007 Steeling A Weekend Away
When owning a property in inner city Melbourne seemed out of reach for three long term friends, they came up with an alternative plan which would give them the lifestyle they wanted at a fraction of the cost. [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]
Roofing made from COLORBOND® steel is mandatory at the Coomera Waters development in Queensland.
20 November 2006 Eco Living Coomera Waters Style
Queensland’s property development community has taken another leap forward with Austcorp’s largest eco friendly development, Coomera Waters, which successfully combines environmental sustainability with all the benefits of a unique living environment. [Read more]