Our philosophy connects our modular homes to the Wabi-Sabi principles, connecting to sustainability, health and the environment.
NOOK - Custom Designed Modular Accommodation to suit your exact requirements
UPCYCLE - New & Recycled shipping containers and more affordable home conversions.
NOOK - Custom Designed Modular Accommodation to suit your exact requirements
UPCYCLE - New & Recycled shipping containers and more affordable home conversions.
Award-Wining ‘Home of the Year’ 2010 & 2011 design construct builder
Australian Designs & Standards
Adaptable Relocatable
DIY or Quick Easy Installation
Why SWALE - Sustainable Work And Living Environments .SWALE is an Australian company committed to the manufacture, development and marketing of environmentally friendly and award-wining homes and buildings.
The Company is building a sustainable future and satisfying the need for smarter and more affordable homes.
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The SWALE DirectionSWALE is committed to going outside the 'box' to bring efficiencies back to the construction industry in every way.
We do this by maintaining: 1. Design & Construct Efficiency Our R&D design division is the key to our success. All of our modules are strategically designed to meet a wide range of practical and aesthetic requirements that are passed onto our clients to save huge amounts of time, money and mistakes - inefficiencies. 2. Our Fundamental Philosophy Is not to build homes from shipping containers, but to utilise the proven logistic efficiencies that allow shipping containers to be shipped, transported by road and rail and picked up, craned, loaded and unloaded with infrastructure already in place. We then have designed unique purpose built innovative unfoldable homes, with high quality products and raw materials to take modular home to better place than custom conventional homes, at an affordable price. 3. A Streamline Method of Off-Site Production Factory efficiency and factory quality in a controlled environment. 4. Economies of Scale With volume comes efficiency with direct wholesale advantages. Working directly with wholesales elevates high retailer product margins that keep housing prices high. 5. Raw Materials Using raw materials not only give you a much better look and feel but provides a stronger more durable product at a more affordable price. Laminates, veneers and the conventional way of building consists of cladding structural elements which is labour intensive and creates a short lifespan or high maintenance. 6. Simplicity at it Best A perfectly engineer designed home, continues efficiencies by its versatility to be cantilevered, hold clean 'gun barrel' lines of sight, but more importantly completely eliminates the cost of unseen structural elements. This allows SWALE to add value to the vital living parts of your home to ensure you get the right look, quality and experience you ultimately desire. 7. Investment Bring property back to being an investment by severely reducing the time-frame of your development saving preliminary and holding costs as well as significant saving off conventional construction. Rapid & Cost-Effective Manufacture
Delivery
Energy Efficient - Environmentally Friendly
Why Conventional Homes Are Inefficient
Home owners are trapped in an unproductive system that needs to support the huge amount labour and continually 'reinventing the wheel', reinventing bedrooms, reinventing products that suit a reinvented 'one off bathroom'. Those directions then go into a tender process to come out and be built in an uncontrollable environment waiting for seasonal change. Meanwhile while these inefficiency are going on, the demand for homes continues to increase, and has gone worldwide to create a global housing crisis. Homes need to be sustainable and keep up with demand. Ways We Save You Money
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Modular Design Concepts
There are 9 current designs, 3 of which are due for release in 2014
Designs are suited to
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The modulesThe designer, art style modules are based on the wabi-sabi trend, featuring clean lines, raw materials and minimalist modern design. The units are constructed to withstand the most intense Australian conditions, using the most up to date sustainable services and incorporate high quality glass, fixtures & fittings packed into snug cabins or luxury homes. The factory currently has the capacity to produce hundreds of modules per year and is ideally situated for world-wide distribution. These modules require the most minimal onsite labour giving the capacity for high volume, risk free developments. |