Projects

You can have a meyBRACE … and then you can make the whole front wall of a 2 storey home a series of meyBRACE. Dahlsens Ulladulla asked us about replacing an expensive steel portal with meyBRACE. Following some minor design changes, $120K worth of steelwork was removed and replaced with a meyBRACE front wall in conjunction with floor and rafter trusses. The meyBRACE were designed using 63mm sections for added capacity and they were tied together and then down direct to the strip footing. See here for more details.

Modular building is growing fast in Australia and seen as one of the ways to help solve the housing crisis. But this does not mean it all happens at one place. Sigma Build is an innovative company in QLD that uses volumetric pre-fabrication to create quality homes that can be site installed in hours. Through a partnership with Meyer Timber and a SE QLD frame and truss plant, Sigma Build is supplied with wall frames and roof cassettes that slot into their production at the right time that they need them. By letting the experienced timber guys look after these elements, they can focus on the overall build as can be seen in the project profile.

Visual effect is important for many people, especially when it come to feature elements in a home. Eastland Timber and Truss came to us asking about a feature truss which the owner wanted to look clean, so no nailplates or bolted connections. Added to this was the fact that the bottom chord was unrestrained and they wanted it out of Merbau. The solution came in the form of screws. By using a combination of fully and partially threaded screws, Meyer Timber designed a truss to resist the loads of the ridge beam, and it came out looking great too as you can see in the attached project profile. As for the bottom chord restraint, a T-stiffener on the underside fixed this. Note that screws do have their limitations and larger trusses are better done using traditional methods at present.

Front elevations of multi-unit developments, such as townhouses, are often narrow and required to accommodate both a garage opening and an entryway, posing a challenge for bracing due to the short wall lengths involved. This was the situation in a recent project in Charlemont (VIC), which featured three separate multi-unit developments. When meyBRACE was introduced as a solution, offering an alternative to timber/steel wall truss braces, it quickly won approval thanks to its efficiency and quick installation process. The carpenter's feedback on site was overwhelmingly positive, noting that "the installation of meyBRACE was a joy compared to the previous systems we were using.

With our prefab line in NSW operating for more than 6 years now, we have developed solid relationships with builders focused on panelisation. When Sean Coddington from Sustainable Design & Construct asked about our ability to precut every piece of timber for a high end build in Belrose, NSW we were glad to assist. The home was modelled by Legacy Engineering and broken up into cassette components for Meyer Timber to cut on our Hundegger. The cassettes were built on site and installed in rapid time, with an overall build period of only 20 weeks as shown in this Project Profile.