Resilient Building Design for Australian Conditions

Mini orb Ultra Shale Grey and Spandek Ultra Shale Grey

Performance, Durability and Sustainability

LYSAGHT® has been a trail blazer in Resilient Building for years now. Designing steel building solutions to comply with the stringent NCC requirements concerning bushfires, cyclones, flooding and other naturally occurring challenges that many Australians face every year.

Built-in Resilience for Australia

As part of BlueScope, Australia’s leading steel producer, our products and systems, made from materials including COLORBOND® and ZINCALUME® steel, are designed to meet the unique demands of Australia's harsh and constantly changing environment.

Compliance As Standard

BlueScope products manufactured at our Australian sites are fully traceable to the point of production, conform to relevant standards, and are supported by documentation, including, but not limited to, product data sheets, safety data sheets and BlueScope test certificates.

Safety, Longevity and Affordability

Lysaght's holistic design principles focus on combining functionality, sustainability and aesthetics by integrating steel products into a building's overall design to create efficient and beautiful spaces, as well as improve occupant comfort, energy efficiency and long-term building performance.

Reassurance for Architects, Builders, Developers and Homeowners

You can rest assured that all our products will perform as effectively as they say they will, whether that’s against flames, water, mould or the elements. You don’t have to take our word for it, we have the certification to prove it, too.

BlueScope certifies compliance with many independently established and accredited organisations, such as BSI Global for our Quality (ISO 9001:2015) and Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001:2015), NATA for our internal testing laboratories, ACRS for hot rolled structural products, Global-Mark for ATIC Scheme 10, and CSIRO and AWTA Product Testing for our coated and uncoated product fire testing to AS 1530.1-1994 and AS/NZS 1530.3:1999.

For further information on these certificates, please visit the BlueScope Library.

Designing for a Resilient Australia

Our products are supplied in accordance with one or more of the following Australian Standards unless otherwise agreed or required by the specification:

AS 1562. 1:2018
Design and installation of sheet roof and wall cladding - Part 1: Metal

AS 4040.0-1992
Methods of testing roof and wall cladding

AS 4040.1-1992-(Rec:2016)
Methods of testing sheet roof and wall cladding - Method 1: Resistance to concentrated loads

AS 4040.2-1992-(Rec:2016,Amd 1:2018)
Methods of testing sheet roof and wall cladding, Part 2: Resistance to wind pressures for non-cyclonic regions

AS.4040.3.2018
Methods of testing sheet roof and wall cladding - Method 3: Resistance to wind pressures for cyclonic regions

AS 1397:2021
Continuous hot-dip metallic coated steel sheet and strip - Coatings of zinc and zinc alloyed with aluminium and magnesium

AS/NZS 2728: 2013
Prefinished/pre-painted sheet metal products for interior/exterior building applications - Performance requirements
LYSAGHT® product coating compliance is nominated at "Coating" above.
AS/NZS2728 specifies requirements for the physical properties and long-term durability of pre-finished/pre-painted sheet metal products.
LYSAGHT® pre-painted compliance is nominated at "Paint" above for Performance requirement 1.3.1 Metal products Hot dipped metallic coated steel (types Z, ZM, AZ, AM) complying with AS1397, stainless steel, aluminium or aluminium alloy in the form of sheet, coil or strip.

For further information on these standards please visit Standards Australia.

Conformance to Standards is vital as it gives the specifier and purchaser confidence that the material obtained will perform as intended in the design and use phases of the product. And it backs up our customer promise of building resiliently, across the range.

What is ‘Resilient Building’?

The practice of designing and constructing homes and commercial buildings with materials that can withstand extreme weather and natural disasters. For Australia, this means using products and systems that are rigorously tested to stand up to the annual risk of flooding and bushfires, plus the more gradual effects of global warming.

What is ‘The Circular Economy’?

Designing products to last, using recyclable and/or recycled materials, creating a ‘closed-loop’ system where waste is eliminated or turned into useable resources. Moving away from the traditional ‘throwaway’ mentality, towards a more responsible and sustainable way of thinking and behaving.

Interested in learning more about how BlueScope is supporting circularity? Visit the BlueScope Circularity Resource Hub