Projects

MPP74 – Coburg House – Jul 2025
June 29, 2025|Projects
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,...
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MPP73 – Alpine Passivhaus – Jun 2025
May 30, 2025|Projects
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....
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MPP72 – King Island House – May 2025
April 30, 2025|Projects
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...
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MPP71 – Eclipse Federal Portal Frames – Apr 2025
March 29, 2025|Projects
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...
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MPP70 – meyBRACE in multi-unit development (Part 2) – Mar 2025
March 29, 2025|Projects
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....
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MPP69 – Gundaroo Shed – Feb 2025
March 29, 2025|Projects
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...
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MPP68 – Tuross Heads meyBRACE – Dec 2024
November 28, 2024|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...
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MPP67 – Sigma Build – Nov 2024
October 29, 2024|Projects
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...
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MPP66 – Feature Truss – Oct 2024
October 29, 2024|Projects
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...
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MPP65 – meyBRACE in multi-unit construction – Sep 2024
September 13, 2024|Projects
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),...
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