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In order to slash build times as a nation we need to Industrialised Construction One example of industrialised Construction and how this can be done is Barcelona Housing Systems in Spain. All components are pre-cut in a factory. This includes panels for foundations, stairs and balconies, frame (floor/roof base/horizontal), load (wall) (vertical) (centre and perimeter), […]

Architecture is all around us even though it’s often so seamlessly blended with the surroundings, you don’t even notice it until somebody else draws your attention to it. Moreover, like every other industry, it’s also developing and changing to suit our needs and preferences. With that in mind, here are a few architectural trends that […]

Geelong the place to Be! Economic and political stability are helping to support Melbourne in the slowdown, and it may get through without a scratch Melbourne and Sydney are being highlighted as having the weakest property market conditions in Australia by CoreLogic’s Hedonic Home Index for October 2018, but Melbourne may come out better than its […]

Change Starts with Beliefs and Values… “Australia needs to make ‘a complete shift’ in the way it plans cities” outgoing Infrastructure Australia chief executive Philip Davies told the Australian Finance Review Weekend recently. Davies recommended asking people what infrastructure they want rather than forcing road and rail projects on them and engaging with communities to […]

You often don’t know you’re in a bubble until it has actually popped. This is what ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, was warning three years ago. Shortly after Federal Treasury secretary, John Fraser, was somewhat less circumspect saying that Sydney was ‘unequivocally’ in a housing bubble with the same applying to Melbourne and other parts of […]

With an average of 35 workers being seriously injured every day, the building and construction sector in Australia has a high profile when it comes to occupational health and safety hazards hence the introduction of SWMS. Whether it is heavy lifting or carrying, working at height, working in and around vehicles, equipment and machinery or […]

Housing affordability is about supply and demand. Housing affordability for most of this century there have been constraints – in particular excessive taxes and restrictive planning regimes – on new home building. These have limited supply and forced up prices. It has taken four years of record building activity – at the behest of more […]

Australia is leading the way in residential battery storage, a new report released by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel has found, with nearly 21,000 battery storage systems installed in homes across the country in 2017 – three times as many as the previous year. “We are now not only the world leader in the use […]

Occman Homes – Beach House Project in Lorne Designed for a recently retired couple and their adult family, the beach house home was built by Occman Homes to cater for the steep site while negotiating height restrictions and a limited budget. Lorne beach house by Occman Homes Lorne beach house by Occman Homes   Despite […]

1. By now you have taken the first step to building your new home – signed what’s commonly called a “Preliminary Building Agreement,” “Tender” or “Quotation Offer of Acceptance” and paid an initial deposit, to allow us to thoroughly investigate your site and prepare your Contract Documents.  The Contract documents include a Uniform Housing Contract, […]