Projects – Meyer Timber

MPP74 – Coburg House – Jul 2025

This Coburg (VIC) residence is far more than a typical home — it’s a high-performance build that delivered significant savings in time, waste, and embodied carbon. Featuring extensive use of meyJOIST and meySPAN, the project leveraged precision off-site construction with sub-floor, mid-floor, and roof cassettes, as well as a prefabricated staircase. The original structural design was re-engineered to suit cassette manufacture, resulting in the elimination of seven beams and multiple loadbearing walls. Reflecting on the project, Bill Topp of Topp Constructs shared, “We’ve loved the process of panelisation and would love to do more in the future."

MPP73 – Alpine Passivhaus – Jun 2025

As mentioned in recent articles in InDetail, the passivhaus movement is growing. Located in Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains of NSW, Klaus and the team at Alpine Passivhaus are amongst a handful of businesses that combine technology with panelisation to create healthy, sustainable high-performance houses. And timber is central to this outcome, being a carbon sink, and a natural sustainable material with excellent thermal properties.

MPP72 – King Island House – May 2025

In just 35 days, Timber Building Systems (TBS) delivered a fully completed 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom workers' accommodation model from stumps to turnkey on King Island—a first of its kind. Shipped from Welshpool, this innovative build amazed the local community with its speed, quality, and sustainability. Designed and manufactured by TBS, the home is not only functional but also boasts an impressive 7-Star Energy Efficiency Rating. The modular structure was purpose-built to meet the demands of island living while offering comfort and durability. TBS continues to push the boundaries of prefab housing, setting new benchmarks for remote accommodations. This successful project showcases what's possible when innovation meets dedication. King Island now has a new standard in fast, efficient, and sustainable housing.

MPP71 – Eclipse Federal Portal Frames – Apr 2025

Eclipse Passive House approached Meyer Timber to see what options there were for a project they were building for Northern NSW. The 2 dwellings had big open living areas as well as front facades with glass windows and highlights over. In terms of bracing, the initial thought was steel portals but these create issues for thermal performance in passive house construction. Instead, we were able to engineer cranked meyBRACE portals which supplied both racking resistance and support to the ridge beams. The façade portal incorporated a wind beam and central mullion support to frame out the windows. Pre-fabricated as a kitset, the units were installed easily on site and fit straight into the rest of the closed wall and roof panels.

MPP70 – meyBRACE in multi-unit development (Part 2) – Mar 2025

In one of our recent newsletters, we featured a typical application of meyBRACE on the front façade of a multiple two-storey townhouse project in Charlemont VIC (PP#65). In this edition, we are showcasing another example of its use in a multi-unit development in Doveton VIC. On this occasion, the project engineers specified meyBRACE as an alternative for steel portal frames at the back of garages. The result, as you can see here, was a successful installation that delivered both cost savings and efficiency—leaving the builder highly satisfied.

MPP69 – Gundaroo Shed – Feb 2025

Timber portal shed enquiries are coming through to Meyer Timber more often, indicating people want a change from a steel shed. This was the case for a customer of Dahlsens Trussme who asked about timber options for a shed he was building. Meyer Timber designed and detailed the portal frames as well as pre-cutting the meySPAN13 columns and rafters and plywood gussets. By marking the screw patterns on the gussets, assembly was simple and the feedback has been that the shed came out cheaper than a steel shed equivalent.

MPP68 – Tuross Heads meyBRACE – Dec 2024

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.

MPP67 – Sigma Build – Nov 2024

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.

MPP66 – Feature Truss – Oct 2024

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.

MPP65 – meyBRACE in multi-unit construction – Sep 2024

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.

MPP64 – Belrose Precut – Aug 2024

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.

MPP63 – Complete Floor Systems – Jul 2024

Some homes are large, and then there are some that take this to the next level. A recent project in NSW delivered a Meyer Timber complete floor system for a first floor area of over 620sqm. This included all EWP components as well as flooring, which was specified as Hebel Powerfloor for the main residence and meyFC supplied for the balconies. Due to the size and complexity of integration with steel, the installation crew relied on our NSW builder rep, Charlie Vella, to ensure the floor matched the layout supplied. The structure has been successfully completed but as you can imagine with a house this size, the fit-out is continuing.

MPP62 – meyBRACE on timber floor – Jun 2024

It’s not often the meyBRACE timber portal system is required on the first floor of a two storey dwelling. When NNH Engineers specified the meyBRACE for this application, the challenge was to offer a simple tie-down solution on the timber floor that could replicate the design capacity of standard concrete anchor screws. By using steel straps and nails, the required tie-down was met to the satisfaction of the engineer and the builder, who was particularly impressed with the simplicity and efficiency of the meyBRACE system.

MPP61 – Scarborough Roof Cassettes – May 2024

Imagine a project nestled against the escarpment on a sloping site just north of Wollongong, NSW. An architect designed house to make the most of the narrow block with lots of weird angles and an inverted roof falling into a central courtyard. The perfect job for roof cassettes. Meyer Timber comes to the fore again in this project where no 2 cassettes were the same and they had to be designed around the steel supporting structure. Installation in just over 1 day whereas an on site build would have taken over a week.

MPP60 – Mount Martha meyBRACE – Apr 2024

The meyBRACE for this project was specified by the engineer as an alternative to sheet bracing with tie-down rods. Due to the 3.5m high walls, the design capacity of the sheet brace had to be reduced by over 20%, rendering it inadequate for the application. Additionally, the builder preferred to avoid tie-down rods which are not commonly used in Victoria. The meyBRACE allowed the builder to achieve the desired outcome using simple tie-down connections and also helped minimize framing around the window.

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