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As the construction industry increasingly moves toward lightweight building systems, driven by factors such as reduced material usage, faster installation times and lower embodied carbon, thermal performance remains a critical design consideration.

While modular and prefabricated building methods have long proven their worth overseas, they’ve only recently begun to gain traction in Australia.

The Siniat Jamb Stud system is a custom-designed framing solution designed specifically for openings in external walls, such as windows and doors. Known for its strength, durability, and rapid installation, it provides an effective way to build robust openings.

Siniat distribution centres and functions will be closed for the 2025 / 2026 Christmas period from Wednesday 24th December 2025 until Friday 2nd January 2026.

Siniat has launched a new national campaign with a simple but powerful message: ‘Siniat. The One.’

Etex, a global leader in lightweight construction solutions and the company behind the Siniat brand, is launching a bold new brand strategy to strengthen its global identity, drive market performance and create greater synergy across its portfolio of more than 30 commercial brands.

One login. One hub. One space for everything you need. We are proudly launching My Siniat - your convenient hub where you can access everything you need for a compliant and successful project.

Siniat’s rigid air barrier board Weather Defence is mainly used in ventilated façade or rainscreen systems.

Now it is even bigger and better! Version 4 of the manual is now available for download, and it contains more than 800 pages of information and hands-on advice.

Open-plan, collaborative learning spaces are on the rise in Australian schools, and while this design trend has advantages for students’ social development and teamwork, open-plan classrooms tend to be noisy. This can have a detrimental effect on individual learning, research shows.

Passive House design is gaining popularity in Australia, but is building an airtight dwelling in some of our humid coastal areas not looking for a mould problem down the line?

1. It’s been around for more than a century Plasterboard was manufactured in the UK as early as the mid-nineteenth century, according to the veteran Australia plasterer and plastering teacher Mark Goodchild. The first plasterboard was imported into Australia in the 1890s and used in the construction of a North Sydney cottage, but it was only properly introduced to the local market in the 1940s.

The façade is one of the most recognisable elements of a building and it plays a critical role as the first line of defence against environmental factors that could affect the structure.

Sustainability in the construction industry involves more than just energy efficiency, emissions reduction, recycling and waste management. This is because sustainability is not only about the environmental impact of business activities and decisions, but involves a social aspect (people and society) as well.

Sound impacts our wellbeing, our health and even our mood. Sound also affects our performance and our ability to concentrate. Sound is pretty powerful, so powerful in fact that engineering students of the George Mason University have developed a sonic fire extinguisher that puts out fires with low level sound waves.’ This may not have much to do with reverberation time, but if sound can even beat fire, imagine what other impacts it can have! Read below what you need to know about reverberation time and what you should be aiming at when creating a space in an office, school, home, restaurant and some other typical environments:

Passive House is gaining popularity in Australia as a design principle that can offer healthy, comfortable, low energy and resilient buildings.

The National Construction Code (NCC) includes mandatory regulations relating to condensation management. Several changes were introduced in 2019,  and more were added in NCC2022.

It’s everybody’s worst nightmare – a fire raging through your apartment block, with no room to escape.