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Board shed, Tuan, Queensland
Modules of nail plated hardwood trusses, simply supported on cantilevered CCA treated poles, roof this large industrial store building. The design was driven by economy but returns nail plate technology to its original market: large scale industrial roof construction.
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Board Store, Tumut, NSW
This is one of the largest nail gusset plate portal frame buildings constructed from glue laminated softwood in Australia.
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Drying shelter, Narangba, Queensland
The building is a simple gabled roof shelter with CCA treated slash pine poles cantilevered out of the ground to support a roof of longitudinal plywood box beams and transverse glue laminated pine trusses
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Factory building, Homebush Bay, NSW
The design of this factory was a culmination of ideas and experimentation for Ralph Symonds and represents the zenith of the cycle of Australian glue laminated arch construction. Covering 5 hectares, this building was the largest single industrial building in the Southern Hemisphere when it was constructed.
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Factory Building, Legana, Tasmania
Externally, this building looks little different to the thousands of portal factory and store buildings found in any of Australia's industrial estates. However, it is a timber building, even though it was originally designed as a steel one.
The cause of the change was cost. The timber portal came in about $5,000 cheaper than the steel alternative and the builder could erect structure with his own carpentry team.
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Foundry Building, Alexandria, NSW
This foundry building is the first modern glue laminated building in Australia.
Glue lamination was probably introduced into Australia about 1860 by colonists accustomed to European practice. The extent of its use at that time is unknown but was probably restricted to the manufacture of small curved members such as those seen at the chapel in Queenscliffe.
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Newport Railway Workshops
The Newport Railway Workshops demonstrate the diversity of timber in industrial building construction between the 1880's and the 1920's. The workshops are a sprawling complex of buildings that served as the principal construction and maintenance workshops for the Victorian railway system for a century.
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Potash store, Cape Cuvier, WA
The store at Cape Cuvier was designed to survive in an aggressive physical environment influenced by the potential for cyclones and the corrosive effects of the nearby ocean and salt stockpiles. Stringent safety, strength and anti-corrosion guidelines were imposed.
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Resawing mill, North Altona, Victoria
The revival of timber construction generated by Australian architects in the early 1960s led to the development of specialist timber fabricators. In Melbourne, H. Beecham and Co. Ltd. developed a specialist timber engineering section and built their complex at Altona North as a showcase of timber construction.
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Store Building, Cardiff
The Cardiff building is the longest clean span timber portal building in Australia.
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Store building, Clayton, Victoria
In the Clayton building, the columns and rafters are box sections that house between each other at the main moment joints. The regular lines of deep plywood purlins, set between the portals, establish rhythms in the roof and soften the light from the strips of translucent roof sheet.
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Store building, Kalangadoo, SA.
The main structure of the building is nine semi-circular glue laminated arches at 4.6 m centres. These were fabricated from oregon laminates, butt jointed and laid up with a resorcinol glue. With a span of 46.2 m, this simple store building is the longest clear span glue laminated arch building in Australia.
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Store building, Mt. Gambier, SA
. Economy governed much of the design for timber industrial buildings such as this. However, the confidence and technical skill in its design, the assured detailing and the fine 2:1 width to height proportion of this simple form endow this building with a strength and scale uncommon ifor buildings of this type..
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Store buildings, Dubbo, NSW
Hundreds of military buildings were designed using shear connector joint trusses during the Pacific War and the largest of these were the curved roof inland stores buildings constructed for the RAAF during 1942 and 1943.
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Store buildings, Werribee, Victoria
The store buildings at Werribee were among the first major structures built in a flurry of war time experimentation and innovation in timber construction in Australia. In the twenty years that preceded World War 2, complacency had forestalled developments in Australian timber design. This disappeared in the frantic building effort that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
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Stores buildings, Ermington, NSW
The US military introduced proven timber construction techniques and designs to Australia through their representatives on the Allied Works Council (AWC). The most important of these were nail joint construction and the design for the arched store buildings that became known as igloos.
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Workshop buildings, Archerfield, Queensland
The arched igloo buildings at Archerfield represent the high point of Australian timber construction during the Second World War. With the need for air defence in southern Queensland in 1942, Archerfield Airport became an important aircraft assembly, repair and staging point.
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