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History of COLORBOND® steel

History of COLORBOND® steel

Long before COLORBOND® steel there was corrugated iron. Way back in 1843 in England, it was discovered how corrugating a thin sheet of iron could produce a very strong, lightweight building material.
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Working with steel framing made from TRUECORE® steel

Tools You'll Need

Tools that will help make your steel frame fixing job even easier.
TRUECORE® Tradies
Dunc Grey Velodrome Under Construction with LYSAGHT® C purlins made from GALVASPAN® steel

Purlins made from GALVASPAN® steel

Cold formed, galvanised purlins made from GALVASPAN® steel have minimum yield strengths around 60 per cent greater than hot rolled steel purlins.
GALVASPAN® steel
Fencing made from COLORBOND® steel

Design Advantages and Benefits for Fencing made from COLORBOND® steel

Fencing made from COLORBOND® steel
The Hangar at Cessnock Airport

The Hangar - Cessnock

This uniquely curvaceous building looks immensely at home in its airport setting, because its form is entirely derived from its function.
NSW
Project  |  Sheds
Apart from the remarkable facade, what gives the building character is the surging, undulating roofscape of split, curved roofs in three colours.

Trades North - WA

Trades North in Western Australia is a building that explores the potential of the steel to build character and express purpose.
WA
Project  |  Community Buildings
A series of slender, tree-like concrete columns rise from the station’s southern end at platform level to support the upper-level concourse, risers and canopies. This feathering of form and structure is critical to the achievement of design and operational clarity.

North Melbourne Station

Cox Architects’ Melbourne Railway Station – an embodiment of transportation modernity – revealing a lucid interplay of forms to create a memorable new face for Victorian public transport.
VIC
Project  |  Transportables
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS), western façade conjures up multiple references: the students have nicknamed it ‘Starship Enterprise’ because of the sci-fi appearance of the striped steel roof, which diagonally slices the extruded form.

Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School

The PEGS Junior building offers a whimsical take on a federation house, among other inspiring ideas.
Completed January 2011, VIC
Project  |  Education
The Mt Franklin Visitors Shelter, with its environment-engaging exploded form, is anything but a typical bush hut.

Mt Franklin Visitors Shelter

The Mt Franklin Visitors Shelter, with its environment-engaging exploded form, is anything but a typical bush hut.
Completed November 2007, VIC
Project  |  Community Buildings
“Steel allowed us to achieve the cantilevered roof, which appears disconnected from the facilities below, as well as the random scatter of columns,” Kosloff says. “There is a dexterity of material and its ability to defy gravity.”

Calder Woodburn Rest Area

BKK Architects has paid joyous homage to the great Australian corrugated dunny with this transformation of a drab, roadside amenities block.
VIC
Project  |  Community Buildings
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Industry news

Congratulations to Laurie A from VIC on being the winner of the Steel Profile Promotion. We received many entries and thank you to all that participated, we look forward to sharing Steel Profile with you in the future.
https://steelprofile.steel.com.au/
Steel Profile Magazine
Victoria's first eight-star energy rated InsulLiving home nears completion.
http://www.insulliving.com.au/insulliving/news/victorias-first-insulliving-home-nears-completion
Bondor
Connection Magazine's Summer edition have a ‘Smart Roof Australia’ feature addressing common roofing challenges and tips and tricks for installing a steel roof. Check out some of the advice in the News section.
http://steel.com.au/news
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