Bowens Timber and Building Supplies has commenced the licensed manufacture and sales of TECBEAM® in Victoria, a unique and innovative light weight steel and timber composite structural beam that can be used in both residential and commercial building construction.
TECBEAM® will continue to manufacture it's patented steel web and will supply this to Bowens for beam assembly.
With timber flanges and light gauge galvanised steel web construction, TECBEAM® offers major advantages to the building industry because of its high load carrying capacity over large spans,relatively low bounce and vibration.
Purchased in 2007 by a group of investors, significant improvements have since been made both to the product and its accompanying technical literature. Although Bowens now manufactures TECBEAM®, the company Tecbeam Australasia continues to develop the product and its international patents, makes the steel web component and supplies technical design services to the building industry.
Under the new arrangement, Bowens (a dominant family owned company in the Victorian building market with a history stretching back to 1894) will service Tecbeam builder customers, making the product available in Victoria both to residential and commercial builders.
Bowens Managing Director John Bowen said TECBEAM® complemented traditional floor trusses because it could carry very high loads within the same depth.
“This makes it very popular for large floor spans particularly in multi-floor construction,” he said.
The superior performance characteristics of the product, when compared with other commonly used floor and flat roof systems, can offer builders significant savings in time and construction costs.
Because of its top and bottom timber flanges, TECBEAM® is user friendly on site, easy to fix and complements a timber frame. Ceiling plasterboard and flooring material can be fixed directly to the joist flanges and most services, including air conditioning ducts and waste pipes, can be installed through the specially designed web holes at regular spacings along the beam.
John Bowen said TECBEAM® would be manufactured within Bowens existing frame and truss fabrication plants enabling the company to provide a comprehensive offer and complete building solution to builders.
“TECBEAM® fits in well with the existing Posi-Strut floor system particularly for high load areas and for supporting offset walls,” he said. “With this product, Bowens can offer a fully integrated floor system.”
TECBEAM® Executive Chairman Jack Haber said that with Bowens as its Victorian licensee, the company will now be expanding its reach into the other States
For more information, please contact:
John Bowen, Managing Director,
Bowens Timber and Building Supplies
ph: (03) 9796 3003 Matt Henley, General Manager,
Tecbeam Australasia Pty Ltd
ph: (03) 9794 8155
info@tecbeam.com.au
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