Many remote areas find building time consuming and expensive as building materials are not readily available, this results in higher costs and longer build times as the builder is often forced to travel upto 150km for every missing component. areas in Queensland, which are booming suffer from this include Rainbow Beach, Hervey Bay, Town of […]

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There is a distinct change happening all over the world with regard to new home construction. Governements prompted by consumer protection calls have tightened the building laws and increased the guarantee that builders have to provide. This has made liability insurance and management on e of the key ares of risk foir builders today.
The result is […]

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Bespoke homes, meaning designed to your plans for you, and kit homes used in the same sentence seems like an oxymoron!
Most people consider kit homes as mass produced low cost products produced off of a production line, meaning any customer changes are either expensive or not possible.
As the pioneer of steel framed kit homes in […]

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Termites are often called “white ants” in Australia

Subterranean termites or “white-ants” are a highly destructive timber pest, causing major structural timber damage to domestic and commercial buildings in Queensland.
A major economic pest: Recent industry surveys suggest about one third of all unprotected properties in Queensland are subject to attack by subterranean termites. Most of the […]

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A report I read this morning on Australia’s and even more so, Queensland’s, burgeoning population made me think about the issue “when is the right time to build?”
“Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) last week confirm we are living in a rapidly growing nation! Australia recorded its largest annual population increase ever, […]

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The world is getting smaller and more mobile. However Australia is stil a bloody big place and there are many remote areas where building accommodation is restrictive  due to materials supply or availability of skilled workforce.
Often the accommodation needs to be created faster than it can be build. So how do you beat this problem? […]

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Choosing Nu-Steel
There are 10 reasons why clients choose Nu-Steel:
1.     Reliability- we have been building steel framed homes for 25 years and plan to be here for at least another 25 years. When entering into the biggest project spend you will ever make, being sure your partner will be there on completion is a big reassurance.
2.     […]

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When analysing your building project and weighing up the long term implications it is impossible to overlook the safeguard of steel framing. The vast majority of steel produced in Australia for use as building materials is a product of bluescope steel and protected with a considerable warranty. Warranties are available against corrosion to perforation by […]

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Owner-building is the project management of your build process. Nu-Steel was one of the pioneers of owner-building in Australia and continues to lead the market using the strongest steel frame on the market. The steel frame is pre-welded, pre-tensioned enabling two people to construct a frame in as little as a day. Plus because […]

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After talking to hundreds of owner builders during the last six months, I finally got around to doing the owner builder course myself last weekend. I booked the course through www.nusteelhomesqld.com.au , who say the best local facilitator they’ve come across is Brian Heaton.
During the morning chats and lunch breaks I asked my fellow participants […]

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