THE 2011 Master Builders Regional Building Awards North East Results.
RESIDENTIAL AWARD CATEGORIESRenovation/Addition
- Best Renovation/Addition $200,000 - $300,000
- Modem Construction Group
- Project: Albury
- Architect: Sanjoule Design
- Designer: Ross Beaver
This home has been transformed from a dark and tired 1970s brick and tile house into a family friendly entertainers delight. Re-pitched rafters and Velux sky windows have created a taller vaulted ceiling allowing light to flood into the living room. A new kitchen with granite bench tops and two pack doors provides a contemporary uncluttered space for all the family to enjoy. Strong design elements introduced to the exterior of the home include a detached structural steel outdoor entertaining area providing protection from the harsh afternoon sun.
With exceptional structural changes, this house is now truly a home for all seasons.
- Best Renovation/Addition Over $400,000
- Modem Construction Group
- Project: Albury
- Architect: Ross Beaver
- Designer: Sunjoule Design
Innovative improvements have transformed this original solid red brick building into a new and exciting home. The original area has been turned into a self-contained area for guests, linked to the new main area by a glazed breezeway featuring a curved roof line. Internally all doors feature solid timber complimented by Solid Sydney Blue Gum timber flooring applied to the living areas. Sustainability features prominently throughout including double-glazed windows, solar panels, R2 insulation to walls and huge north facing windows in the living areas to take advantage of the winter sunlight. This home has achieved everything the owners wanted and more.
Display Homes
- Best Display Home $300,000 - $400,000
- Simonds Homes
- Project: The Stamford, Wallan
- Architect/Designer : Simonds Homes
The Stamford is designed to accommodate a growing family that entertains and is looking for a zoned lifestyle. From the formal entry the home flows through into a centrally located kitchen, meals and family room to create an exceptionally large area for everyone to enjoy. A spacious formal lounge is situated away from this area providing privacy from the rest of the living areas. The master suite is situated at the front of the home with a beautiful ensuite and walk in robe. Three further bedrooms, media room and double garage complete this stylish home.
Custom Homes
- Best Custom Home $200,000 - $300,000
- Hedger Constructions Pty Ltd
- Project: Buxton
From the soaring height of its 4.7 metre skillion roof to the simplicity of the layout, this home has been completed to a standard that reflects the vision of its owners. A feature of the home internally is the two rammed earth walls which frame the living, bedroom and study areas; constructed from local materials, the walls bring the natural external surroundings into the home. Polished concrete floors throughout allow for a kaleidoscope of rich colour to further enhance the natural feel. Externally the extensive use of recycled ship lapped ironbark shadow clad is combined with corrugated iron to provide an eye catching visual impact on approach to the home.
- Best Custom Home $300,000 - $400,000
- Barzen Builders
- Project: Yarrawonga
- Architect: B1 Design
- Designer: Paul Ranson
The floor plan of this resort style home allows for a central private courtyard which is accessible from the living area and bedroom two, and also allows significant light to penetrate through the galley and into the kitchen, dining and living room. High quality fixtures and fittings are displayed throughout including commercial double glazed windows, solid Tasmanian Oak floorboards and floor to ceiling porcelain tiles in the wet areas. Natural products such as stone, cedar lining boards and timber rafters present a classic contemporary façade that won’t date. Although the rear of the home faces South, the house has reached a rating of 5.1 stars before adding the double glazing to all windows and door units.
- Best Custom Home $400,000 - $500,000
- Sam Lindsay Constructions
- Project: Wangaratta
- Designer: Lightdesign
This Italian countryside inspired three bedroom plus study home is set on 2.5 acres and boasts 28 squares of living over two levels. The master bedroom has a large walk-in robe, full ensuite and parent’s retreat. The downstairs bathroom features a separate powder room. The open plan kitchen, living and dining room feature metallic glass splashbacks, Caeserstone benchtops and an island bench with waterfall end. A handmade red ironbark staircase is stunning with a glass balustrade. The living areas with solid Jarrah flooring lead out to an alfresco dining area with French provincial pattern limestone pavers. A detached double carport is linked to the home by a timber colonnade.
- Best Custom Home $500,000-$700,000
- Diverse Builders Pty Ltd
- Project: Shepparton
- Architect: Raymond West Building Design & Drafting
- Designer: Ray West
Built to stand out in the street, this home is an effective design that provides well-ventilated open plan living areas bathed in natural light. There are two generous bedrooms positioned away from the master bedroom with a walk-in robe and ensuite with double shower. A second living area can be used as a theatre room or formal lounge. The alfresco area with retractable awning works as a thermal bank to warm interior spaces in winter. Other features include a computer nook, remote opening skylights, huge alfresco area with a feature wall. A variety of cladding products are used externally including ceramic tiles to the portico columns.
- Best Custom Home Over $700,000
- Hedger Constructions Pty Ltd
- Project: Thornton
- Architect: Sally Draper
- Designer: Anna & Hartog Berkeley
This home with many sustainable features was designed in compartmental fashion to allow for clearly designated zones. The office area alone has two distinctive areas for the owners to personalise their use of the space. A guest wing is connected to the open living, dining and kitchen areas by a hallway with feature lighting, gallery and spotted gum cabinetry. The home has excellent thermal qualities through the use of rammed earth, extensive insulation, double-glazing and sweeping north-facing verandah. The home includes a 50,000 litre water storage collection from the roof, solar hot water system and bathroom fixtures of the highest quality.
Special Categories
- Best Sustainable Energy Home
- Ovens and King Builders
- Project: Wangaratta
- Designer: Tracey Toohey Design and Drafting
This thermally efficient and sustainable home is an outstanding example of an energy efficient design achieved without sacrificing contemporary standards of finish and aesthetics. The high quality construction makes efficient use of conventional building techniques including a waffle pod slab to keep site excavations to a minimum. The house generates enough electricity to meet the daily need of the occupant as well as to return energy to Victoria’s power grid. Gas is used for space heating and solar hot water boost. The daily cost of gas supply is a winter peak of 96 cents and a summer low of 6 cents.
Commercial Award Categories
- Construction of Commercial Buildings Under $1M
- Premier Building & Construction Pty Ltd
- Project: Wodonga
- Architect: Simpson Architects
- Designer: Paul Simpson
The brief for the construction of this new office building was to incorporate it into an existing industrial shed and complement the surrounding space of the lot. The new facility’s design includes five private offices, a general office, a maintenance office, staff facilities, two meeting rooms, and conference/board room on the mezzanine level. There are also nine car parking spaces and an open plan area for multiple workstations with a central administration bench. The open plan design provides natural light throughout the spacious interior and a cheerful lunchroom opens directly onto a north facing BBQ area where native plants have been included in the landscaping.
- Construction of Commercial Buildings $1M-$3M
- Diverse Builders Pty Ltd
- Project: St Augustine's College Kyabram
- Architect: Via Architettura
This project consists of a multipurpose sports stadium with storage rooms, canteen, office, toilet facilities and portico and foyer. The exterior of the construction is predominately finished in colourbond cladding, Exotec and brickwork. Internally the finishes of the main hall include radiata ply, acoustic corrugated sheeting, acoustic ceiling tiles and hardwood timber sports floor. Historic buildings situated beside the new construction dictated the style of the architecture on the south side while the design is more striking on the north side where there are no design constraints and a cascade of colourbond metal deck creates a striking effect.
- Construction of Commercial Buildings $3M-$6M
- Southern Cross Developers
- Project: The Scots School, Albury
- Architect: NBRS+P
- Architect: Garry Haddinett
This modern and functional indoor sports and recreational center has been built in harmony with the aesthetics of the surrounding school buildings. The facility includes two basketball and netball cross courts, and a competition basketball and netball court with retractable spectator seating to one side. There is also a fitness laboratory and general learning area for health and fitness education. The construction also includes associated change rooms, toilets and stores for both students and staff. The building incorporates a high level of environmentally sustainable design initiatives to reduce energy and water usage.
Overall Winners
- Regional Residential Builder of the Year^
- Hedger Constructions Pty Ltd
- Project: Thornton
- Architect: Sally Draper
- Designer: Anna & Hartog Berkeley
The construction of this home was made difficult by its ridge setting, which required extensive planning to reshape the hill. The house is made up of three components, which required complex structural fixings particularly in plumbing to roofing components. An innovative feature of this stunning home is its security monitored front gate, which is situated over 2km from the home, connected via fibre optic cable to a fully integrated CBUS system. The homes electrical system and services operate via three touch screen panels to control lighting, slab heating, airconditioning, garage doors, thermal pool cover, audio and TV systems and eclectic windows and blinds.
- Regional Commercial Builder of the Year^
- Southern Cross Developers
- Project: The Scots School Albury
- Architect: NBRS+P
- Architect: Garry Haddinett
This construction more than meets a long held dream of the Scots School Albury for its own indoor sports and recreational center. A requirement for the facility’s design was its exterior to be consistent with the secondary campus aesthetics. With meticulous attention to detail the building incorporates the same cream coloured brickwork with a terracotta base and banding as the surrounding buildings. There are circular cement columns supporting verandah roofing and grid pattern windows. The mass and colour of the steeply pitched roof tiles are mirrored in the use of terracotta cladding panels to the main facades.
