It had to happen – after 35 years our CEO John Oliver has finally retired from active daily duty on the rammed earth work site. From building the company from scratch in 1989 to contracting for multi-million dollar commercial projects, it’s been quite the journey. It’s hard to let go after such passion and effort, […]
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Sydney Modern Project
The opportunity to be part of what is being called ‘a once in a generation project’ has taken us to central Sydney, to build extensive rammed earth walls for the new section of the Art Gallery of NSW. With nearly 1400sqm of rammed earth walls on two levels, the 6m high walls sweep through glazed […]
Promenading our Skills
CUSP Landscape Architects recently employed us to create a colourful rammed earth statement entry to a new Stockland Property housing estate in Deception Bay, Queensland. It was extremely rewarding to receive an email from the Landscape Architect for the project, Sam Waterson. “We just wanted to say a huge thank you on behalf of […]
“BULWARK-LIKE” RAMMED EARTH A PRIZE-WINNER
Our “bulwark-like” rammed earth walls at the Blackwater Aquatic Centre have been cited as a reason why architects Liquid Blu won the Public Architecture Award (Queensland) for 2018. The jury of the Australian Institute of Architects said, “Providing a small mining community with a cool place of respite and aquatic activities for all ages, the bulwark-like outer layer […]