Stairs, Ladders & Ramps

The house is an architectural masterpiece that also showcases Glasshape’s signature TemperShield bent and toughened glass.

Moddex supplied a turnkey modular access ramp solution to Ausco Modular for one of their Victoria branch office buildings to resolve their accessibility problem.

According to Harvard School of Public Health, the average student spends over 15,000 hours at school by the time they graduate high school. That’s secondary only to the amount of time they spend at home, and makes it paramount to design school buildings that support the physical and mental health of students, teachers and staff. We asked Sally Brincat, an architect with over 20 years of experience, as well as ThomsonAdsett’s Victoria Education Sector Lead, how that fundamental factor influences her own practice.

Educational spaces provide highly formative and diverse environments for younger generations. They are also crucial to fostering both wellbeing and retention of school staff, as well as forming supportive and inclusive local communities. Because of that, educational design comes with a whole suite of unique considerations – and to Tammy Beck, the Executive Director of William Ross Architects (WRA), understanding them should always start with a conversation.

Between the arrival of the tech-savvy Alpha generation and an increase in online learning, there is a lot going on in the educational space where architecture and design are concerned. So we sat down with Ben Vielle, a partner of m3architecture – Australia’s most awarded practice for education. The architect weighs in on the evolution of education design, lets us in on some of the revolutionary work his practice has done at a new primary school in Queensland – and convinces every school out there to ensure they have a master plan. The latter is particularly close to Ben’s architectural heart.

Victoria University’s city tower comprises about roughly almost 35,000 square metres of gross floor area over 30 levels, which allows the University to consolidate a number of existing CBD facilities into a unified contemporary building. The building design represents the forward thinking aspirations and visions of the university, and the tower format is a modern evolutionary way of delivering high density canvas on a tight inner city footprint. Its sculpted shape adds a new dimension to the precinct as well as responding and integrating with the immediate surrounding area.

Started from a garage in 1979, Australia’s iconic pull-down ladder brand, AM-BOSS, has played an important role in revolutionising the capability of the ladder industry by introducing innovative features like fixing clips, and utilising only the highest quality, local materials in their manufacturing process.

Caroma new GermGard® protection is a unique antimicrobial formula which kills harmful bacteria, this technology not only helps prevent the spread of nasty germs it makes cleaning even easier.

For the last 40 years, AM-BOSS Access Ladders has been providing sturdy, safe and cost-effective access ladders to take advantage of that under-utilised space and provide innovative storage solutions for the domestic market.

True industry pioneers, AM-BOSS was the first company to offer Australian-made attic access ladders in 1979 - and the company has been designing, manufacturing, installing and distributing purpose-built pull-down and fixed access ladder systems with tremendous success ever since.

AM-BOSS has been manufacturing pull-down access ladders for more than 40 years with a strong focus on safety and performance. AM-BOSS ladders are fit for use in a range of spaces, heights and applications like commercial buildings, residences, factories and hospitals.

AM-BOSS Access Ladders has been a market leader in fixed access ladders for over 40 years now - and in that time, its versatile range of products has been used in a wide variety of projects from simple residential installations to major commercial developments and government buildings.