A note from Budd G’day all. We’ve got a lot going on – on both sides of the Tasman. We’re doing our bit to keep not just ourselves and our teams safe, but also our operations running during the most recent COVID speed bumps. The good news is that, despite varying degrees of restrictions, we’re...

A note from Budd We’re already in the second half of the year, and what a year it’s been for us here at Monkeytoe. The XBeam has been taking the design, building and engineering worlds by storm. We’ve had great feedback on its performance – the time and stress it’s saving on site, the ease...

Space The maths is simple enough: the more weight you have on and from the roof, the more structural support you need to hold it up. A plant room on the roof of an apartment block, for example, might necessitate big columns intruding into liveable spaces, reducing the sellable footprint and the value of the...

Efficiency is also about standing the test of time though. One of the reasons we love marine-grade, high tensile aluminium is that its corrosion rate is a fraction of that of steel – that means that rather than having to worry about galvanising, painting and re-finishing every decade or so (as you would with steel),...

Design flexibility From the ground up, we’ve designed the XBeam to be quick to manufacture for both standard and custom designs, which means we can turn around solutions incredibly quickly. This is especially useful when designers and builders are bringing us in late to a project: we can generate a solution in no time, so...