SBT Designs

Mooloolaba House

2011-12-23T06:30:00.001+10:00

Some great shots of one of our latest homes. Built by Cleary constructions the home creates magical spaces that excite the senses. An amazing balance of warmth and character achieved in the home. We hope that the home can inspire you in your next home, or contact us to help you realise your our dream home.

Master Builders Magazine Cover Shot

2011-08-15T18:27:00.000+10:00

As seen in the Master Buliders Magazine

Airlie Beach House 2

2011-08-14T23:46:00.000+10:00

Conceptual design for a fantastic site over looking the new Port of Airlie Marina at Airlie Beach. The beautiful Whitsunday Islands create an inspiring setting for our new minimal home to feature, VM Zinc, Polished concrete and exposed structural steel. Clear open spaces are designed to offer the ultimate in outdoor living.

New Sunshine Beach Home

2011-07-17T03:29:00.001+10:00

Some great shots of a new home completed at Sunshine Beach (Sunshine Coast). Built by Alan Little Coastal Homes and photography by Phill Jackson

SBT Designs now on Facebook

2011-07-12T15:26:00.001+10:00

Find us on facebook and keep updated on our latest projects.

Also link up with SBT Designs with Linkedin

Today Tonight - Australian House of the Year 2010

2010-12-14T12:43:00.003+10:00

Channel 7 - Today Tonight feature on Master Builders Australian House of the Year 2010

as shown on Friday 10th December 2010

Seven Local News Broadcast for - Master Builders Australian House of the Year 2010

2010-12-05T13:54:00.002+10:00

Design Map locations - SBT Designs - Google

2010-12-01T12:03:00.008+10:00

Check out this link (click on image) for a Google map show some our our award winning design locations and other great homes. Once in the map you can click on the homes to reveal some images and details of the homes. We will be updating the map soon with more photos. So don't forget to come back.

What's new !!! Some of our current design projects

2010-12-01T11:49:00.004+10:00

Building design in the Sunshine Coast, Bargara, Airlie Beach or anywhere in Queensland these are some our our latest creations soon to become dream home to our clients. Contact us to have your dream home designed to suit your lifestyle and blend with the surrounding environment. Homes that breath and allow your family to develop and grow in truly inspiring spaces.

Media - Win local news - Master Builders House of the Year 2010

2010-11-27T08:24:00.005+10:00

WIN News, Friday, November 26, 2010

Braeden Constructions Awarded Master Builders Residential Builder of the Year for our Cooroy Mountain House.

Master Builders Australian House of the Year 2010 - Noosa Journal

2010-11-25T21:00:00.004+10:00

As sourced from Noosa Journal

Master Builders Australian House of the Year 2010

2010-11-20T20:31:00.008+10:00

Australian House of the Year 2010
Braeden Constructions takes out top housing award in the Master Builders Association national awards held last night in Canberra, claiming the overall Australian House of the year 2010.

The wins keep on coming with Steve Coates Constructions taking out top renovation housing award in the Master Builders Association national awards held last night in Canberra.

Congratulations to the winning builders and a great reward for the outstanding level of detail and shows that the extra effort is noticed.

2010 QMBA State Award Winner - Braeden Constructions

2010-10-02T02:47:00.015+10:00

2010 QMBA House of the Year
Congratulations to Braeden Constructions in taking out the top housing award in the 2010 Queensland Master Builders state awards. The home for Braeden Constructions has been an outstanding reward for the luxurious home. Built to an amazing level of detail the home is a true credit to the builder. The home also took out Best Individual Home over $3.0m.

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Tunba House - Cooroy Mountain, Sunshine Coast, Queensland

2010 Queensland Master Builders State Award Winner - Steve Coates Constructions

2010-10-02T02:27:00.006+10:00

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 QMBA awards. SBT Designs is proud to have been associated with Steve Coates Constructions for the Glass House residence. The award recognises the extreme level of detail in providing a building finished to an amazing standard. It is true credit to the builder and his team. The home has been awards the Best Individual Home $2.5m to $3.0m category as well as Best Outdoor Living and Landscaping (Homes).

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Mooloolaba Home shines

2010-09-07T03:06:00.005+10:00

Our latest home to be completed is a modern family beach home located behind the beach front esplanade at Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast. The home features a unique floor plan that is twisted on the site to provide privacy to the living zones and ensure that the best use of passive solar design is achieved. The home provides crisp clean lines. We will have more photos coming soon

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Sunshine Coast Luxury Home Dazzles - BlueScope LYSAGHT® media release

2010-08-10T06:41:00.007+10:00

When it comes to designing a house built for luxury and sophistication, Tunba House just off of Queensland's Sunshine Coast is the epitome of flexible and beautiful design teamed with practical living.

The house is nestled amongst rugged and picturesque greenery, capturing the expansive views of rolling countryside and sparkling ocean beyond.

The design brief focused on incorporating the home into the natural splendor of the surroundings while still creating a stunning family home. The striking luxury of both the interior and exterior and positive integration of the environmental elements makes entertaining a delight for both guests and hosts.

The home's designer, Ben Thornton at SBT Designs, commented, "The beauty of this home is not only in the aesthetics but how it works so well with the environment."

The building is designed with sustainability in mind. It complies with the star rating for the BCA by incorporating passive solar design principals and allowing for an increased natural lighting and ventilation to the home.

The recognition and assimilation of the natural elements means the best aspects are accentuated, through the light pod-style roof and passive solar panels. Negative elements are protected against with the cooling water pools and protective stone wind walls.

At 1,000 square metres, the home was designed around a series of roofing pods to distinguish living, sleeping and working areas in a cohesive manner. These pods allow maximum natural light to stream into the core of the home. Shaded water features have also been utilised to ensure a cool and fresh ambience accentuated by the open flowing floor plan.

The connection between the natural landscape of the surroundings and the spectacular luxury of the design is created through the use of roofing made from ZINCALUME® steel. Use of this material fitted with the pod style design of the home and the curvature of the roof eased the progression from nature to habitat.

As well as the advantage to design, ZINALCUME® steel was chosen for the roof and guttering for its durability and flexibility. LYSAGHT BONDEK® was chosen to support the internal and external flooring zones, which gave a permanent formwork structure. This allowed the under croft area to be utilised as a storage while the building above floats on the hillside.

BDAQ 2010 Award winning design

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SBT Designs have been awarded for the best residential home over 450m2 in the Queensland Building Design Awards for 2010. The state award recognises the amazing design for the home that stretches across the ridge of the site and speads out with sweeping terraces that have soft curved edges. The home has a grandeur from entry gates and the winding road that leads you up the ridge passing through grassed fields and skirting the treed ridge line. The building appears with a bold form and has an organic grounding with the base landscaping walls of stacked local stone. The port cochere entry features a grand scale and uses recycled timber posts and beams as does the entry gates frame. The main living room features a setdown floor to provide an intimate formal living space and the use of the wrap around seating offers a great social gathering space. The increased ceiling height in the living room create a hierarchy of the dominance in the overall spacial planning of the home. The lounge space also features a two way wood fire place, shared with the formal dining. As with every section of the home the refinement of the dining is evident in the addition of the concealed wood store that is accessible from the living room and has a second external access to allow for easy restocking of the fire wood as sourced from the site. The outdoor rooms have been design to provide soft genital curves that point out towards the views focal points. The curved terraces create an organic flow to the building and provide a calming transition between each outdoor space. Stepping pads across the water, gas flares and water movement both internal and external complete the engagement of the senses as the flow through the home becomes and journey that plays with light, space and sound.

QMBA House of the Year Double

2010-07-19T12:08:00.008+10:00

Braeden Constructions have taken out the Queensland Master Builders 2010 Sunshine Coast Regional Awards for House of the Year for the 2nd year running.

The Tunba House has been awarded the following awards in the Sunshine Coast Region :

Best Individual Home over $2 million and

House of the Year

The award recognises the level of detail and craftsmanship that Braeden Constructions have applied in the completion of the project. The continual pride in the work is a credit to Mick Devlin and his team of builders.

QMBA Award winning House

2010-07-19T09:07:00.006+10:00

Bargara beach house wins big for Steve Coates Constructions. Winner of the Master Builders 2010 Regional (Burnett Wide Bay) awards:

Best Kitchen

Best Outdoor Living and Landscpaing

Best Renovation/Remodelling Project over $401,000

and

Regional House of the Year

Congratulations to Steve Coates and his team for the completion of the home to exacting standards.

My Property Review

2010-07-15T12:41:00.007+10:00

Hinterland design special as featured in My Property Review.

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Bagara Beach House - Renovation

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The house is situated in a unique location that required a careful approach in the planning and construction of the home. The existing home consisted of an irregular shaped double storey residence that sat beside a water course and on the door step of Baraga Beach. The beachside location is home to nesting turtles and required an extremely sensitive approach to the design and construction of the home.

Existing Home - Early stages of demolition

Completed Home

In order to minimse the site impact the additions to the home where designed to focus on added an addition storey and limit the overall site footprint. The reduction of the building footprint also ensured that a greater setback from the waterway and dune was able to be provided. In order to maintain and enhance the waterway the existing vegetation to the waterway was maintained and further enhanced with a clear spanning bridge and additional re-vegetation to the waterway bank. The native vegetation and additional vegetation were used to provide not only bank stabilisation but to further develop the existing native coastal vegetation.

The construction of the home was performed as best practice with sediment control barriers in place during all stages of the construction works through to the completion of the landscaping and other water control measures.

The initial demolition works were carried out in a delicate manner in order to salvage and recycle as much of the existing building as possible. Where building materials were not able to be re-used the waste materials taken from the site were separated and elements such as steel and timber were recycled in order to reduce the environmental impact of bulk land fill. The works carried out in the demolition and during all phases of the construction engage local trades and building material suppliers to further reduce the overall buildings carbon footprint.

As for the design of the building, the planning consideration undertaken for the building and the site were focused on the assessment of the site’s local climatic setting. The extreme marine exposure became not only a material selection issue but also a consideration in the function of the home and its occupants. The design of the pool and outdoor social spaces allows for the outdoor living to take place in all weather conditions. The simple addition of separate outdoor living spaces allows for the eastern deck space to be utilised for the perfect aspect to capture the morning sun and lighting the kitchen spaces. The large gas strut servery window allows for the seamless integration of the kitchen and outdoor living. Should the weather turn nasty the sheltered north western deck can offer the perfect retreat away from the south easterly winds.

Control of the breeze path through the building is a breeze with the installation of large opening and louvre windows to allow for a dedicated control of the building ventilation. The separate living / art studio zone on the second level offers the sweeping view both over the waterway and out to the beach through the filtering of the coast Casuarina trees. The master suite located on the upper 3^rd level provides the ultimate space with access the prevailing breezes. With these pods being only one room wide the easy of cross ventilation is achieved and controlled with large panels of louvre windows. The addition of the viewing balcony on each level further enhances the connection with the external environment.

As with clear breeze paths provided through each room the building is also packed full of bulk insulation to all roofs and external walls which collectively provide a thermal comfort level to reduce the buildings requirement on artificial heating and cooling. The provisions of solar hot water heating to further reduce the buildings operation cost and environmental impact is completed with a hot water ring main. The ring main is used to reduce any lag time and reduce the water loss suffered from traditional hot water systems. Sensors to the bathrooms trigger the pump that circulates the hot water ring main and allow for instant hot water at the fittings thus limiting the water running time. Water collection is another feature of the home. The offers an impressive 35,000L water storage tank which is fitted with dual filters and a UV stabilizer and automatic mains back up should this ever be required.

The construction of the swimming pool and spa was carried out to ensure that the filtration system was to be as efficient as possible. The pool and spa are calibrated with the yearly seasons to ensure that the chlorination and run times are optimized to ensure that excessive power consumption does not occur. The pool operation times are reduced during the winter months to compensate the reduced solar exposure. Programmable systems were used to run the pool operation and designed to operate on a calendar and 24hr clock to ensure correct function during the required daylight hours.

Lighting systems for the house were required to be custom designed to ensure that the environmental impact to nesting turtles was nonexistent. Programmable lighting was used in the design to minimise the impact of the artificial lighting effects on the marine turtle nesting along the Wongarra coast. The lighting has been programmed to dim the lights to 50% strength, and turn some lights off completely 1hr after sunset and resume normal operation 1hr before sunrise during the October to April nesting season. Turtle friendly low pressure vapour lights for outdoor lighting was used and positioned plus shaded to reduce light spillage.

Whilst the home offers the very latest in automated design and features, the home also creates a sensual experience that excites and stimulates you as you pass through each and every space of the home. Even in providing the very best in materials and finishes the environmental impact has been reduced with clever design, careful construction and site management to create wonderful space to live, work and play.

New minimal modern houses take shape.

2010-05-08T22:14:00.013+10:00

We have two new houses evolving in conceptual design development with a fresh modern minimal style. Problems with building on steep sites are overcome with the use of pavilions floating on structural pods achieving very minimal environmental impact to the sites. Clean modern lines are created with the extensive use of structural steel, wide panels of glass and louvres. With the use of ArchiCAD we can allow your design to evolve in front of your eyes, you may even decide the walk through your virtual building prior to the builder setting foot on the site.

If you need to have a custom designed house for your steep site and wish to have the level of care and pride that we take in achieving a delicate balance in the maximum use of the site with the best environmental design principles then please contact us to arrange a consultation.

BDAQ 2010 Design Awards - Sunshine Coast Daily

2010-04-19T14:16:00.003+10:00

Story published by the Sunshine Coast Daily for the BDAQ 2010 Design Awards - Sunshine Coast best house over 450m2
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2010/04/18/Building-design-team-delivers-coast-awards/

Tunba House wins 2010 BDAQ Design Award

2010-04-17T08:54:00.003+10:00

Our Tunba House has just been awarded best house over 450m2 for the BDAQ Sunshine Coast.

The home is situated at the base of the beautiful Mount Cooroy. A series of linked pavilions are used to create a sprawling home that branches out to encompass the amazing views south to Coolum Beach and north over Noosa and Mount Tinbeerwah.

The home features the latest home automation from Ingenious and offers every comfort from the central wood fire to the inspiring designer kitchen that offers a large scullery/preparation area.

Water features that link the outside to the interior are used to create a harmonious space to relax and enhance the peaceful setting. The home has too many features to list and is a must to view to offer inspire the design of you new luxury home.

Bonavista House, Doonan

2009-09-09T10:17:00.015+10:00

Currently on the market you could own our executive home at 14 Bonavista Drive, Doonan, previously known as the unofficial 'Maori Embassy' (see www.realestate.com.au ). The home is a sprawling plantation home with amazing views over Noosa Heads.

We can design your new home with spacial pavilions stepping across the site. Each unique space in the home is designed to suit your needs. We custom design the floor plans to suit the individual client's needs, with your own master piece home to enrich your lifestyle.

A simple palette of colours and building materials is enhanced with the bold building form of linked pavilions each stepped to create a dramatic building. As you pass through the home each space touches your senses and provides perfect living zones for all weather conditions.