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Through science and engineering, our technology has pioneered the process of turning juvenile, low-value pulp resources into premium hardwoods with the look, feel and properties of 100-year-old trees.

03/09/2026

Some tributes get a plaque, this one got a tree.

The Foundation Tree stands in Aurecon’s Docklands office, built to honour their late colleague Jeffrey Robinson and the values he worked by: collective ambition, sustainable innovation, and partnerships that outlast the project that started them.

The timber is our Tasmanian Oak. Not the select-grade logs you’d expect behind something this precise, but the resources that usually get passed over.

Researchers at Melbourne School of Design worked with Aurecon’s engineers to find the form through computational design, tension cable form-finding and a lot of iterative testing. Charles Sandford took the geometry and made it buildable.

97 components, each machined in two halves on a 5-axis CNC, joined with timber dowels and a magnet-driven connection system, with custom jigs built just to hold everything in position while it went together. A closed-loop branching structure gives you nowhere to absorb a stray millimetre, so every piece had to match the digital model exactly.

The form arrived there through the same principles a tree grows by: efficiency, structural optimisation, adaptability, and letting the material show what it can do.

The Foundation Tree has recently been shortlisted in the Australian Certified Timber category at the 27th ATDA - 2026 AWARDS GALA OCTOBER Awards.

Congratulations to the whole team, and good luck. 👏

📸 Djordje Stojanovic
Client: Aurecon
Design & research: Melbourne School of Design
Fabrication: Charles Sandford Paul Bianchini
Modelling and coding:

19/08/2026

Three years in. We didn’t think we’d be here yet, talking Green Star scores. But here we are. 🥳

The Green Building Council Aus is pushing the industry toward materials that are transparent, lower-impact, and properly accounted for, and that’s exactly the territory we live in. So when Green Star Fitouts v1 started scoring products on how much responsibility sits behind them, we found out we were already there 😎

Chain of Custody + Declare Label + Product Carbon Footprint. It’s the kind of paperwork that takes years to build and we’re proud to have done the work!

Our timber lands well above best practice under GBCA’s Responsible Products Framework, and that’s not a number we’re going to keep quiet about. 😅

Full guidance on where we fit, credit by credit, is on the blog. Link in bio.

13/08/2026

This is our timber, hard at it. No filter, no styling. Just trades doing what they do best. 👌

Internal linings. Window frames. A pivot front door. A ladder prototype. A run of joinery at the The University of Melbourne. Posts and beams for ALPHA60. Shelving and joinery for aesopaustralia. Timber, everywhere you look, at AfterMath.

Different trades, same material, in hands that know exactly what they’re doing.

Not sure if we’re the right material for your next job?

From a single shelf to a full fitout, from commercial to resi, decorative to structural. Whatever you’re thinking next, there’s a decent chance our material’s already done it.

Send us a message, we’re easy to talk to. 😉

04/08/2026

We’ll deny it if asked officially. But yeah, we’ve got a favourite. 🙄

29/07/2026

This was plan B. 😅

Throwback to MDW 2026: Jon Goulder and Henry Williams came to Chapter House with a plan to hang massive parabolic sculptures through the ceiling.

Heritage said absolutely not (rude, but fair 🙃).

What they built instead is the kind of scale hardwood almost never gets asked to perform at, and we got to be part of it.

None of this could have happened without the trust these two put in our material. They saw what the material could do and pushed it further than anyone had. Jon Goulder Henry Williams Studio 🙌

The full feature, with a lot more from Jon and Henry, is live on Australian Design Review now.

Link in bio, it’s worth the read.

📸Jonathan VDK, Eugene Hyland, we owe you more than a caption credit for these. Consider this a start.

21/07/2026

This is the cross-section of our material. Three hundred-odd veneers, stacked and pressed under enormous force to form a single, solid billet.

Under that kind of pressure, timber doesn’t hold still. It ripples. Every sheet bends a little differently, some more than others, none of them the same twice.

That’s what you’re seeing in this end grain. Not a pattern we designed, but a record of hundreds of small, natural shifts, each layer curving exactly where it needed to.

What comes out is a material that’s engineered for consistency but still entirely its own. 👌🏼

Want to see what this looks like machined into an actual project? Gallery’s linked in bio.

29/06/2026

We’re eucalyptus people at heart. When we bring something in from outside the local range, it needs to earn its place. Maple does. 🍁

Why we love it:

Maple’s workability is genuinely excellent (anyone used to working with eucalyptus will notice immediately 😉), but it’s also hard-wearing enough for the spots that need it most. Think flooring, stair treads, shop fitting and retail fit-out. And with a yield of around 90%, it makes better use of the resource than any other species in our range. 👏

The colour sits in that warm honey-to-amber range, with darker streaks running through the grain. Our Maple has more character than the standard you might know, and that’s because we use all of the resource, not just the best cuts.

Backsawn shows broader, flowing figure with natural knots and movement. Quartersawn tightens everything up, with clean linear grain that works beautifully across joinery and linings.

Feedstock is FSC certified, supplied from Quebec, Canada.

Curious whether it’s the right fit? We’re easy to reach.
Enquire via website, or send us a DM.

23/06/2026

If Australian-made means something to you, this one genuinely walks the talk.

Designed by Tom Skeehan, craftsmanship by Rolf Barfoed, timber by us. (And we all live within 15 minutes of each other. Classic . 😅)

This is the STAY stool, reborn in our timbers.

Available in 3 heights, 4 Australian species. Fits a Sunday morning as easily as a commercial fitout.

Shop direct via the link in bio, or get in touch to spec it into a project.

Photography: Ish*ta

14/05/2026

Conrad Schooneveldt doesn’t waste a cut.

A decade of practice, from Parsons in New York to studios in Amsterdam, then Melbourne, then a workshop in Taggerty, shows up in every proportion.

Sketch, scale model, prototype, then machine-cut to precision. Every step earns the next. And our NSW Spotted Gum gets to be part of the result. 🙌🏻

The Babushka Collection is one of the latest pieces to come off his bench. It is built around a Dutch idea: gezellig, meaning warmth, ease and togetherness. Pieces that nest or spread through a space depending on what the moment needs. In our Spotted Gum, it’s got character to spare. 👌🏼

You can see it in person at the Conrad-S exhibition, Designed by Human, Cut by Machine, as part of Melbourne Design Week. A working recreation of his Taggerty studio, sketches, prototypes, Babushka, and all.

Conrad, we’re quietly very proud this timber ended up in your hands.

Go see him. 👏🏻
rad_s studio
481 Sydney Road, Brunswick
14–24 May 202
Free

22/04/2026

When you’ve got kids, your social circle kind of follows their rhythm.

School drop-off, the local park, birthday parties.

We’ve been crossing paths with Craig like that for years (5 to be exact!)

At some point between those moments, he mentioned they were retrofitting their place here in Canberra. When he realised we worked with timber, he started asking really good questions.

For their retrofit, designed and delivered by , Craig and his family chose our Karri. It was one of our limited runs (now fully allocated) but the reason behind the choice mattered more than the rarity.

Craig grew up in WA, spending time “down south” around Margaret River. Karri wasn’t just a species, it was familiar. Something remembered.

And in the house, it’s used lightly, but deliberately.
A custom step. A window seat. Shelving in a kids’ room.
Small moments, but the kind you interact with every day.

Paired with salvaged Jarrah from , there’s a quiet continuity to the material palette. Nothing overworked, just thoughtful decisions that add up.

The project is also part of Sustainable House Day 2026 presented by and will open its door (literally) for others to see what’s possible when you take a more deliberate approach to materials.

Visit for all the details.

And Craig, thanks for including us in the story.
See your around school. 😉

📸 Rohan Thomson

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