An owner-builder who wanted the repeatability of unitized panels on a house-sized budget — and got it.
An owner-builder who wanted the repeatability of unitized panels on a house-sized budget — and got it.
Each chapter records a decision the next project team can evaluate: intent, performance, production and site delivery.
Unitized construction is usually priced for large commercial programmes. We scaled it down: a light compact-unitized cassette developed for exactly this size of project, giving factory-finished panels that a two-person licensed glazing team can hang.
The panel grid repeats across the two street elevations, which made the engineering efficient — one dominant cassette type plus corner specials, all assembled, glazed and sealed in the factory.
Because every panel arrived finished, on-site work was set, hang, bolt, seal. The owner-builder's licensed glazier completed the envelope in eight days, following our step-by-step installation manual and marked-up setting-out plan.
Cyclone-region requirements drove the fixings: every cassette bracket was specified to the region's wind classification, with pull-out tests documented in the handover file.
Design & Supply
Two-person crew hung the full envelope in 8 working days
Cyclone-region wind classification met with documented bracket tests
Single dominant cassette type kept cost near stick-system levels
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