Coated Steel

Dismal Swamp Tourist Facility at Dismal Swamp, NW Tasmania. Featuring curves made from COLORBOND® steel in profile LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® in colour Night Sky®

The Recreation Centre

Located in the picturesque Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, Milson Island was once a hospital and a jail but is now a playground for primary school children.

The Recreation Centre

All of the construction materials had to be barged to the island prior to building, making steel a natural choice.

The Recreation Centre

"We modelled some different materials but nothing could match steel’s contributive strength and lightness, so it was an ideal choice given our building constraints". Michael Heenan

The Recreation Centre

The structural steel bracing is integrated with the upturned hull-like roof, which is clad with LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB® profile made from COLORBOND® Ultra Steel in the colour Dune®.

The Recreation Centre

Sport and Recreation NSW hosts groups of up to 180 kids who ‘camp’ there for a week and enjoy activities like canoeing, fencing, climbing and high ropes.

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Roofing made from COLORBOND® steel

Roof sheeting manufactured from COLORBOND® steel is the product of choice for Australian commercial and industrial buildings. That's because it's proven its value time and time again, a strong, durable and cost effective material that suits a wide range of building designs and roofing applications.

It is available in both single sheet form and insulated panel form. It comes in a wide range of colour choices to give building designers and owners creative freedom while meeting building code requirements. It delivers not only construction advantages but thermal efficiency benefits. It meets all relevant Australian Standards (AS1397 and AS2728) and is backed by BlueScope Steel warranties to support your reputation.

COLORBOND® steel standard colour range

Commercial Colours

The roof cleverly folds in on itself to create multiple facets of light within, and overhangs on the outside where it forms two large awnings that address both the plaza and adjacent historic Huyghue House

Benefits of Commercial Roofing made from COLORBOND® steel

Port Kembla Pool

Choosing the right grade of Pre-painted and COLORBOND® steel

COLORBOND® steel and thermal comfort

COLORBOND® steel and Thermal Comfort

For more than 50 years, COLORBOND® steel has revolutionised Australian building design, transforming our homes and our workspaces along the way.

The sheeting made from COLORBOND® steel provided flexibility for creating curves and for doing them in a single piece, resulting in less maintenance and less leakage in the roof system.

Thermal efficiency of COLORBOND steel roofing

A roof made from COLORBOND® steel can make a valuable contribution to the overall thermal efficiency of your home, which is good news for your hip pocket and the environment.

Roofing made from COLORBOND® steel

Roofing made from COLORBOND® steel and ZINCALUME® steel

For COLORBOND® steel and ZINCALUME® steel, BlueScope offers a warranty against corrosion to perforation by weathering in the natural elements for a period of up to 36 years* from the date of installation.

Western Sydney Paint Line

What is AS2728?

AS2728 specifies requirements for the physical properties and long-term durability of prepainted & organic film/metal laminate products in sheet & strip form.

Coated products

What is AS1397?

AS1397 specifies requirements for continuously hot-dip metallic coated sheet steel & strip.

BlueScope’s COLORBOND® Metallic steel’s colour appears to change throughout the day... it has a dynamic effect as the sun passes over it.

School sports facility transcends the ordinary

Used to excelling at sports and games, the students of Mazenod College have a new sports facility that surpasses its utilitarian brief to become a triumphant centrepiece for the entire school, by harnessing wall cladding made from BlueScope's COLORBOND® Metallic steel.

The COLORBOND® Metallic steel colour Aries® – a rich, deep red with a touch of theatrical brilliance – plays a starring role in Newman College's Marist Auditorium.

COLORBOND® Metallic steel plays starring role

The COLORBOND® Metallic steel colour Aries® - a rich, deep red with a touch of theatrical brilliance- plays a starring role in this new performing arts venue.

BlueScope COLORBOND® steel has played a prominent role as cladding for Kirwan State High School’s new building, which provides a new visual identity and strong street presence for the school.

Queensland school goes from old to bold

BlueScope's new COLORBOND® Metallic steel has played a pivotal role as cladding for a new triple-storey school building that makes a grand statement amongst predominantly older single-storey classrooms.

A purposefully fragmented steel shell is the hallmark of an idiosyncratic house in the heart of Melbourne's western suburbs.

Cut Paw-Paw House

A series of varyingly clad exposed steel portal frames by Andrew Maynard Architects create a quirky ‘inside-out’ addition to an original timber cottage.

Broadcasting studios have a prime view of South Bank Parklands from the cantilevered glass boxes

ABC Brisbane Accommodation Project

With distinctive steel cladding that dances its way along the building’s northern and western facades, it appears that ‘Aunty’ is young once again.

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.

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.

The roof made from COLORBOND® steel is suspended below the curving roof trusses, which reduced the external wall area by about 900m2 to achieve significant cost savings.

Transend Primary Store

Heffernan Button Voss Architects’ brief was driven by functional requirements but the Transend Primary Store at Bridgewater near Hobart, is anything but mundane.

External walls are clad with dynamic sporting stripes, which were deliberately chosen to arouse the powerful emotions that an athlete draws upon while competing

Maribyrnong College Sports Academy

Inspired by sports science, dwp|suters has designed an academy that embodies the essence of sporting prowess.

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

The new Queanbeyan Government Service Centre cladding is made from BlueScope XLERPLATE LITE™ HW350 steel, custom folded using the sheet dimensions.

NSW Government Service Centre

The strikingly contemporary Government Service Centre in Queanbeyan celebrates the past while looking boldly towards the future.

COLORBOND® Colours Chart for Building Professionals

Corrosion Technical Bulletin CTB 13 - Contact With Timber

Corrosion Technical Bulletin CTB 14 - Exhaust From Wood and Oil Fired Burners

Technical Bulletin TB 01a - Steel Roofing Products - Selection Guide

Corrosion Technical Bulletin CTB 25 - Inert Catchment

Corrosion Technical Bulletin CTB 11 - Condensation and Insulation

COLORBOND® steel for roofing and walling (XRW) datasheet