Commercial Structure Featuring Curved

Plywood Box Beams

Location: Mt Barker, South Australia

Summary: Multi Purpose Centre

For images please click here.

WhiteFriars Catholic College for Boys, Donvale Victoria

Summary: JC Rawlings was facing the challenge of double elliptical curved beams that needed to support the structure as 15 primary members.

Location - Donvale Victoria

Architect:  Graeme Law  &  Associates Pty  Ltd

Builder: JC Rawlings Pty Ltd

For further details please click here.

Marsen Point LVL Facility New Zealand

Summary: This article details a purpose built manufacturing plant and warehouse for LVL. This building is the largest timber building in the southern hemisphere and boasts impressive spans and design challenges.

Location - Marsden Point, New Zealand

Size - Approx 26, 000 square metres

Download PDF article 1 (675 KB approx)
Source: Civil Engineers Australia, Vol 73 No, January 2001 p.36-38

Download PDF article 2 (83 KB approx)
Source: Futurebuild - Specifiers News, Issue 14, June 2000, p.4

Download PDF article 3 (89 KB approx)
Source: Futurebuild - Specifiers News, Issue 17

Mc Cormick Centre for the Environment

Summary: The McCormick Centre for the Environment is a building with an environmental mission: 'to educate visitors and residents'. It features LVL as a material of the future and is a fine example of how such engineered materials can be used to develop buildings hand in hand with its surrounding environment.

Location - Renmark, South Australia

Download PDF article 1 (162 KB approx)
Source: Futurebuild - Platform News, Issue 6 December 2002, p.1-2

Download PDF article 2 (515 KB approx)
Source: South Australian Builder, Volume 80, Number 2, May 2003, p.51-52

Dindas Lew Distribution Building

Summary: Portal frame, distribution building

Location - Tingalpa, Queensland

Size: Approx 3, 250 square metres

Download PDF article (504 KB approx)
Source: Australian Timber Design, September 1997, p.10

Elf Farm Supplies

Summary: This article covers stage 1 of a 2 stage mushroom substrate plant. It is a fine example of how LVL can be used in corrosive environments.

Location - Mulgrave, New South Wales

Size - Stage 1 - Approx 1, 300 square metres

Stage 2 - Approx 3, 400 square metres (now completed)

Download PDF article (59 KB approx)
Source: Futurebuild, Platform News, Issue 10, December 2003, p.4

St Andrews Church

Summary: This article looks at the St Andrews Anglican Church located in Gracemere and the design challenges behind it right from the conceptual stage.

Location - Gracemere, Central Queensland

Download PDF article (192 KB approx)
Source: Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation (Timber.org.au)

Wiri Distribution Centre (New Zealand)

Summary: This distribution building in New Zealand is designed from the products it houses and is yet another example of the clever use of LVL in the industrial/commercial building sector.

Location - Wiri, New Zealand

Size - Approx 3, 000 square metres

Download PDF article (74 KB approx)
Source: Futurebuild, Platform News, Issue 2, December 2001, p.2

Timber Panel Products (Kilsyth)

Summary: Distribution warehouse.

Location -Kilsyth, Victoria

Size - Approx 2, 400 square metres

Download PDF article (344 KB approx)
Source: National Starch/Purbond - case study