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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.

Award-Wining ‘Home of the Year’ 2010 & 2011 design construct builder 

  • Raw, rustic, healthy homes. 13 design awards.
  • Grand Designs Australia (Lifestyle Channel) Episode 1, Series 1
  • Australia’s best homes, Grand Design, House & Garden, Abode and numerous other magazines and media. 

Australian Designs & Standards 

  • designed to blend with the environment and let the outside in. 
  • compliment harsh tropical conditions and cyclone rated. 
  • tough enough for Australia’s remote, harsh conditions. 
  • fully compliant, built to Australian standards and energy ratings. 
  • bush-fire rated options and earthquake and storm proof. 
  • high acoustic performance 

Adaptable Relocatable 

  • modules come with steel window protection shutters 
  • decks and all external accessories can we easily locked up for wet season storage or relocating / reselling your unit. 
  • easy relocatable capabilities without damage. 
  • plug and play adaptability for future module additions. 

DIY or Quick Easy Installation 

  • all accessories and furniture is securely packed inside. 
  • twist-lock shipping container clip footing system. 
  • concrete free easily installed shorefoot foundations
  • fully fitted and tested services - infrastructure supply only 
  • installed within days of delivery. 
  • can be self-installed or by our registered professional crew. 

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.
  • Ongoing product Innovation 
  • Impeccable Luxury Living Environments
  • Significantly higher returns for tourism operators
  • Lower ongoing energy costs
  • Positive and active contribution to the environment

The SWALE Direction

SWALE 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 

  • low cost, low maintenance, high quality, high volume buildings.
  • a factory quality streamlined method of off-site production for world-wide distribution.
  • reduced building costs with raw quality materials through economies of scale and factory production procedures. 
  • fully fitted homes/buildings within 2months! 
  • quality products and furniture wholesale from direct outlets. 

Delivery 

  • delivered to any international port around Australia or Internationally. 
  • ready to pick up from our storage yard by your or our preferred transport company. 
  • delivery included in installation if required. 

Energy Efficient - Environmentally Friendly 

  • warm LED energy efficient down-lights. 
  • polyurethane sandwich panel cool-room insulation to floor, walls & ceilings. 
  • high performance ‘low e’ double glazed sunergy glass. 
  • louvre cross flow ventilation. 
  • photovoltaic solar panel brackets for 4 x 250w panels. 
  • ecologically sustainable off grid options 
  • provision for 2 x 1000L rainwater tanks. 
  • our buildings dramatically reduce energy costs 
  • factory efficient low embodied energy 
  • significantly reduces site waste. 

Why Conventional Homes Are Inefficient 

  • Conventional homes are costing more but built cheaper, lighter, with inferior products creating ongoing maintenance.
  • The process is expensive, questionable get what you want, apart from a life long mortgage.
  • Cars and mobile phones have advanced so quickly and reduced in price, but homes have gone in the opposite direction.

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 

  • no design and engineering consultant frees. 
  • severely reduced holding costs on your land by quick 100% completion within months from order. 
  • severely reduced wasted rental payments while waiting for conventional design and construction. 
  • no wasted money on building products you don’t see or use 
  • easy DIY installation 
  • plug & play sustainable services connects 
  • fully fitted and tested services that don’t require contractors. 
  • fully furnished turn-key ready to move in concept without costly retail products and removalists. 
  • reduce overall building costs by up to 40% 

 ​Modular Design Concepts

  • Affordable, re-locatable, environmentally friendly accommodation modules, designed to combine high end style with low cost manufacturing.
  • Crafted via a streamlined method of off-site production, the modules are Australian designed and built to Australian standards.
  • The pre-fabricated, pre-furnished designer modules are easily transported to site as self-contained units, packed with all internal and external elements, adaptable to both DIY or multiple module installations.
  • Our modules are specifically designed  to blend with the environment, be ecologically sustainable and can be delivered within months of order with minimal fuss, consultants and red-tape.

There are 9 current designs, 3 of which are due for release in 2014 

  • Eco-Hut (Eco-tourism cabins)
  • Oasis (Luxury 3- 4 bedroom house)  
  • Alfresco (BBQ outdoor entertainment bath-house)

Designs are suited to 
  • Eco-Tourism
  • Backpacker resorts
  • Caravan park cabins and alfrescos
  • Housing shortages
  • Affordable and remote housing
  • Indigenous housing
  • Fishing & holiday cabins
  • Commercial modular retail & general concepts

The modules


The 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.


Sustainable Working And Living Environments