Timber & Structural Steel · Victoria · Australia-wide
Timber and steel — engineered, manufactured and delivered by one team. So the gaps between suppliers stop becoming your problem.
Hero photograph
Exposed structure at frame stage — trusses up, steel posts in, light coming through. Shot from inside, looking up. No people in hi-vis posing. This is the shot that says “we made this.”
20+ yrs
Supporting Australian builders
80+
People on our team
Timber + Steel
Both, from one team
Family owned
Same people, every job
The problem
Between the engineer’s drawing and the shop drawing. Between the timber and the steel. Between the delivery docket and the crane booking. Nobody owns those gaps — so they land on you.
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The steel was fabricated off one revision. The trusses were made off another. Somebody has to cut something on site, and it won’t be the supplier standing there.
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Two suppliers, two schedules, one crane day. When the sequence slips, the machine sits idle and the cost is yours, not theirs.
03
The frame mob blames the steel mob. The steel mob blames the engineer. You’re the one standing in the mud, three weeks off lockup, holding it together.
When one team makes the timber and the steel, there’s nobody left to blame. That’s the point.
How we work
Most suppliers price a drawing. We ask what you’re actually trying to build — because we’re the ones who have to make it all line up.
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Programme, methodology, site access, sequence, design intent, budget. Not just the plans — the project around them.
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We work out the right structural approach. Sometimes that’s more steel. Sometimes it’s less. We’ll tell you which, and why.
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Timber and steel, in our own factories, by our own people, off one coordinated set of drawings.
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Sequenced to your programme, delivered in the order you’ll build it, with one number to call if anything moves.
Capabilities
The capability nobody else in the conversation has. One team designs the timber, fabricates the steel, and owns the junction where they meet. It’s the joint that costs builders the most money — and the one we take responsibility for.
Designed to your roof, not to a template. Complex geometry, long spans, awkward junctions — the ones other shops quote high to avoid.
Precision-manufactured, marked up and stacked in build order, so your carpenters aren’t sorting a pile before they can start.
Cassettes and joist systems engineered for span, service runs and the reality of how the trades will actually work above and below.
Beams, columns, portal frames and connections — fabricated in-house for residential, commercial and industrial work.
Not “value engineering” — we don’t cheapen your spec. We find the way to build it that costs you less on site, and we show you the maths.
One coordinator from first conversation to final delivery. They know your job. You won’t be explaining it again.
Who we work with
Residential
Custom & volume
Multi-residential
Townhouses & apartments
Commercial
Coordinated trades
Industrial
Steel-led structures
Architectural
Complex geometry
The sector changes. The builder doesn’t. They plan ahead, they expect a phone call before a problem lands on site, and they’d rather have the right answer than the fastest one.
We’re not the supplier for every builder.
If the lowest number on the day is the only thing that matters, there are cheaper suppliers than us — and we’ll tell you so. We’re built for builders who count the cost of the whole job, not the price of the package.
Why Glencoe
Plenty of suppliers have been around a long time. What matters is whether the structure turns up right, on the day you need it, and who picks up the phone when it doesn’t.
20+
Years supporting Australian builders. Victorian family business, national capability.
80+
People on the team. The same coordinator, engineer and driver on your job.
Timber + Steel
Both manufactured in-house. One drawing set. One point of accountability.
Proof slot
On-time, in-full delivery rate. The single most persuasive number you can publish. Measure it, publish it, update it monthly. Nothing else on this page works as hard.
Portrait
The builder who gave this quote. On their site, not in an office. Named. Face visible. Company logo can sit in the corner.
In their words
“[Named builder quote goes here — and it must contain a fact, not a compliment. Ask them: what was the hard part of that job, and is there a day you remember us actually saving you something?]”
[Name], [Role]
[Builder company name] · [Project name]
Note: Four of these, named and photographed. An anonymous testimonial is read as fiction by builders — and they’re usually right.
Selected projects
Not a gallery. Every one of these is a problem we were handed and what it saved the builder to solve it properly.
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Architectural · Complex geometry
Challenge
A cathedral ceiling over an open living space, with exposed steel carrying a mezzanine above it. Three suppliers priced the timber and the steel separately. None would own the junction.
What we did
We detailed the trusses and the steel off the same revision, redesigned the connection so it could be lifted as one assembly, and pre-fitted the plates in the shop.
[X] days
saved on site — one crane day instead of three, no on-site fabrication
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Volume residential
Challenge
A volume builder running [X] starts a month was losing days at frame stage — deliveries arriving as a pile, chippies sorting instead of building.
What we did
We changed how we load. Frames marked and stacked in build sequence, delivered to a rolling schedule matched to their crew rotation, not our factory run.
[X] days
off the average frame-to-lockup cycle across [X] homes
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Multi-residential
Challenge
A townhouse development with a site so tight there was no laydown area. A full delivery would have blocked the only access.
What we did
Staged deliveries, sequenced unit by unit, timed to the crane. Steel and timber arrived in the order they went up.
[X]
deliveries staged across [X] weeks — zero site shutdowns, zero double-handling
Not “send us the drawings.” Tell us about the job — the programme, the site, the part that’s giving you grief. We’ll tell you how we’d approach it. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say that too.