Excellence Awards

The Noosa Council have updated the Sunshine Beach skate park, the park still has the vert ramp but the rest of the park is a massive improvement with a fun look bowl and innovative street elements. The park was further enhanced with a 190 square meter shade structure to prevent heat build up particularly in…

For this award-winning project, we needed to create two custom shade sails with curved steelwork and asymmetrical elements based on a concept our client saw on an architectural website – one for the patio and the other a car park shade structure. The steelwork for the main entrance or patio structure needed to be curved…

It was challenging for our client to find an outdoor awnings supplier in Brisbane who could give them exactly what they were after, as all suppliers they approached told them it cannot be done. They were about to settle for a standard metal structure when they were recommended to speak with the Versatile Structures team.…

Increasing functionality, ensuring adequate natural lighting, and maintaining a sleek, elegant appearance was our challenge for this stunning project. San Kai restaurant needed an all-weather solution to increase the usability of their outdoor dining area. The lightweight awnings they previously installed were prone to water leaks, pooling and an overall messy appearance, so our brief…

Our client, Phil needed a multi-solution: firstly, waterproof shade protection for his pool and deck, privacy from neighbouring high-rise apartments and also to keep leaves from overhanging neighbouring trees out of the pool. Phil envisaged a vertical panel to shed the leaves back into the neighbours’ side. Our 3D survey of the area took each…

Our client’s East facing apartment needed cover from the sun, rain and when entertaining guests. Being a rooftop apartment, they were concerned about how an awning would be affected by high winds and if there was a solution to solving their challenge. A site visit identified sun angles that projected into their living room and…

Client Australia Zoo Timeframe to complete shade structure 15 Days Location of shade structure Beerwah in Queensland Shade structure Challenges Short turn around period The site is publicly accessible The shade structure needed to look like a makeshift camp Limited access meant digging by hand Crocodiles being released and had to help with carrying the…

The existing shade sails and approximately 60 percent of the steelwork had major design and specification flaws leading to an early failure and premature corrosion to the steelwork. With minimum disruption of the park’s trading, the project required a replacement of blue ringed octopus shade skin complete with custom sewn in artwork, and rectification of…