Gen-Eco Ecolite Balsa/MDF Beams
LIONS@springwood
- Project: LIONS@springwood (Brisbane Lions social club)
- Architect: Robin Spencer Architects
- Engineer: Tim Preibbenow of Calibre Group
- Builder: Mt Cotton Constructions
- Product: Custom CNC-shaped Ecolite beams with imagery Blackbutt woodgrain pattern.
- Project Description: In late 2018 we were tasked with providing a curved beam structure for an uograde of the gaming room at the Brisbane Lions Football Club at Springwood in QLD. By working closely with the builder and architect, we were able to provide a unique ceiling structure featuring our Ecolite beams.
Norths Leagues Club
- Project: Norths Leagues Club
- Architect/Designer: Cayas
- Builder: Fardoulys Construction
- Shopfitter: Sancoe
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Beams
- Project Description: Grey Ironbark imagery beam and posts. We supplied a mixture of printed beams to replicate the look of natural timber as opposed to every beam being identical. The project had a considerable cost saving for the builder in not having to structurally engineer the ceiling due to the lightweight advantages of Gen-Ecolite Beams.
Optus Sydney
- Project: Optus on George
- Architect/Designer: Collectivus Brisbane
- Shopfitter: ARC Joinery Brisbane
- Product: Gen-Ecolite BalsaMDF Composite Beams and printed MDF panels
- Project Description: Coffered ceiling produced using a combination of lightweight Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams and MDF panels. Digitally printed in Dark Distressed Oak timbergrain. Striking combination of Gen-Ecolite beams/panels and LED lighting.
Panorama Cafe Indooroopilly
- Project: Panorama Cafe Indooroopilly QLD
- Architect/Designer: Mark Retail
- Shopfitter: Mark Retail
- Product: Large curved Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite panels
- Project Description: Large curved Balsa/MDF Composite beams were profiled into a wave formation and covered with white gloss vinyl. Beams were screw fixed through a Rondo ceiling system.
Mamasan Restaurant Broadbeach
- Project: Mamasan Restaurant Broadbeach
- Architect/Designer: Spacecubed
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: Gen-Ecolite beams faced with high pressure laminate.
North Lakes Sports Club
- Project: North Lakes Sports Club
- Shopfitter: Casino Consoles Wakerley QLD
- Product: Gen-Ecolite BalsaMDF Composite Battens
- Project Description: Gen-Ecolite battens with pine timber veneer applied, lime-washed and coated with polyurethane. Striking ceiling installation using the lightweight benefits of Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF composite battens.
Camera Pro – Brisbane
- Project: CameraPro Newstead
- Architect/Designer: Troupe Studio
- Shopfitter: HiViz Projects
- Product: Ecolite Balsa Beams
- Project Description: As the beams were for a feature ceiling in a professional camera store, the designer wanted to achieve the 'look' of a camera lens closing up. Another example of the lightweight advantages of Ecolite Balsa beams being displayed in a striking showroom setting.
Corporate House
- Project: Corporate House
- Architect/Designer: Dovey Architects
- Shopfitter: Image Joinery
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: Horizontal and vertical Gen-Ecolite beams digitally printed in Zebrano style veneer pattern. Beams were back fixed onto Black MDF sheets.
The Lounge & Co
- Project: The Lounge & Co
- Fabricator: CJ Joinery – Molendinar QLD
- Product: Gen-Eco Ecolite beams & posts digitally printed in Weathered Timber Natural
- Project Description: Fitout of a hair salon at Newstead QLD. The Ecolite beams provide a lightweight solution for what appears to be heavy sleeper beams but are only a fraction of the weight compared to the real thing which produced a big cost saving.
Westside Private Hospital
- Project: Westside Private Hospital
- Shopfitter: Corona Cabinets
- Product: Gen-Ecolite beams
- Project Description: Tasmanian Oak printed onto lightweight Gen-Ecolite beams.
Rose City Ceiling
- Project: Rose City Shopping Centre Warwick QLD
- Architect/Designer: Thomson Adsett
- Builder: McConaghy Built
- Shopfitter: Wadsworth Contracting (Stage 1) Arondale Interiors (Stage 2)
- Product: Digitally printed Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF panels
- Project Description: Digital timbergrain pattern printed onto hollow-core panels for a striking vertical/horizontal ceiling structure.
Fish Emporium
- Project: Fish Emporium
- Designer: Space Cubed Design Studio - Southport QLD
- Shopfitter: Clubbar Concepts - Gold Coast
- Product: Gen-Ecolite beams finished in Formica Sublime Teak
- Project Description: Located in the vibrant Capri on the Via Roma retail precent, the Fish Emporium restaurant offers modern, casual, waterfront dining. The beams are a central feature of the alfresco outdoor eating area, which overlooks the water back toward Surfers Paradise.
Burrito Bar – Holmview
- Project: Burrito Bar Holmview
- Architect/Designer: Blackbox Retail design
- Shopfitter: Fix It Up Joinery
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Box Beams
- Project Description: How do you achieve the look of heavy concrete beams on a ceiling? The answer is Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite panels manufactured into a hollow box beam. The Balsa/MDF panels were digitally printed with the concrete image and then machined into a hollow box beam. The look of a concrete beam without the weight and associated cost.
Scottish Pacific
- Project: Scottish Pacific Offices
- Shopfitter: Woodland Shopfitting
- Product: Gen-Ecolite beams
- Project Description: Gen-Ecolite beams digitally printed with Spotted Gum. These beams were custom-shaped to create a smooth, consistent ceiling curve in addition to the large, round down lights.
Balsa Veneered Beams Adelaide
- Project: Data Action
- Architect/Designer: JPE Design Studio
- Builder: Shape Group
- Shopfitter: Link Interiors
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Veneered Beams
- Project Description: Timber veneer applied to our Gen-Ecolite beams with LED light strips inserted.
Michael Hill Melbourne
- Project: Michael Hill Bourke St Melbourne
- Architect/Designer: Michael Hill In House Design
- Shopfitter: Woodland Shopfitting Brisbane
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: Walnut toned woodgrain digitally printed onto Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams.
Toombul Beams
- Project: Toombul Shopping Centre Upgrade
- Builder: Mainbrace
- Shopfitter: Farrago Interiors
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: 75mm thick Gen-Ecolite beams were digitally printed in a timbergrain to match Western Red Cedar. The eight metre long beams were produced using 2 x 2.400 and 1 x 3.600mm joined together. Farrago Interiors manufactured a bracket to allow the cross beams to join on the booker rod intersections.
Theiss Head Office
- Project: Theiss Head Office – Southbank QLD
- Architect/Designer: Priority Design
- Shopfitter: In2 Joinery – Hillcrest QLD
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Beams
- Project Description: The ceilings are a major focal point of this fit-out and our Gen-Ecolite Beams were digitally toned to a colour that blended perfectly with carpets, furniture and fittings, which is one of many of the unique advantages of choosing Gen-Eco EWP products for your project.
TC Beirne
- Project: TC Beirne Refurbishment - Brisbane
- Architect/Designer: The Buchan Group - Brisbane
- Builder: Hutchinson Builders
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: The lightweight advantages of Ecolite Balsa beams came to the for on this project with the beams being installed at a height of over 8 metres. QLD Walnut digital print specially ‘toned’ to the architect’s requirements.
Queensland X-Ray, Gold Coast Airport
- Project: Queensland X-Ray, Gold Coast Airport
- Designer: Phillips Smith Conwell
- Installer: TPA Furniture Brisbane Pty Ltd.
- Product: Gen-Eco Ecolite beams
- Project Description: Gen-Eco Ecolite beams were specifically toned to match all other joinery elements, with the end caps digitally 'curved' to create a more realistic appearance of natural timber.
Kiaan Health Foods
- Project: Kiaan Health Foods
- Shopfitter: Woodland Shopfitting
- Product: 75mm Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: Chunky 75mm thick beams printed in a rough sawn Oak timbergrain.
1 King William Street, Adelaide
- Project: 1 King William Street, Adelaide
- Architect/Designer: IA Group
- Builder: Mossop Construction
- Shopfitter: Spry & Spry
- Product: Balsa/MDF Veneered Panels
- Project Description: Balsa/MDF with rustic veneer applied and processed into angled profiles along with LED light strips inserted.
Digital Printing
LIONS@springwood
- Project: LIONS@springwood (Brisbane Lions social club)
- Architect: Robin Spencer Architects
- Engineer: Tim Preibbenow of Calibre Group
- Builder: Mt Cotton Constructions
- Product: Custom CNC-shaped Ecolite beams with imagery Blackbutt woodgrain pattern.
- Project Description: In late 2018 we were tasked with providing a curved beam structure for an uograde of the gaming room at the Brisbane Lions Football Club at Springwood in QLD. By working closely with the builder and architect, we were able to provide a unique ceiling structure featuring our Ecolite beams.
Karalee Shopping Centre
- Project: Karalee Shopping Centre
- Builder: Hutchinson Builders
- Product: Hoop Pine imagery on FC
- Project Description: Hoop Pine imagery on fibre cement.
Kiva Han Coffee
- Project: Kiva Han Coffee
- Architect/Designer: Blackbox Retail Design
- Shopfitter: Building In Green
- Product: Digital print on MDF
- Project Description: The owner wanted the look of timber on the bulkhead but the cost of engineering the ceiling to take the weight was prohibitive. The solution was to scan real timber and digitally print onto MDF sheets resulting in a large cost saving.
Camera Pro – Brisbane
- Project: CameraPro Newstead
- Architect/Designer: Troupe Studio
- Shopfitter: HiViz Projects
- Product: Ecolite Balsa Beams
- Project Description: As the beams were for a feature ceiling in a professional camera store, the designer wanted to achieve the 'look' of a camera lens closing up. Another example of the lightweight advantages of Ecolite Balsa beams being displayed in a striking showroom setting.
Sunshine Plaza
- Project: 'The Boardwalk' - Sunshine Plaza
- Architect: The Buchan Group
- Developer: Calty Construction
- Product: Gen-Eco Digital Print on 9mm CFC
- Project Description: Gen-Eco provided digitally printed Spotted Gum panels for the refurbishment of the Sunshine Plaza project. As one of the briefs was to supply a Group 1 fire rated material, we supplied a range Spotted Gum panels which were digitally printed on James Hardie 9mm Exotec compressed fibre cement panels. The panels were installed horizontally as soffit linings along the boardwalk area for this part of the Sunshine Plaza upgrade.
Corporate House
- Project: Corporate House
- Architect/Designer: Dovey Architects
- Shopfitter: Image Joinery
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: Horizontal and vertical Gen-Ecolite beams digitally printed in Zebrano style veneer pattern. Beams were back fixed onto Black MDF sheets.
Coco Bliss North Lakes
- Project: CocoBliss - Westfield North Lakes
- Shopfitter: Fix It Up
- Product: Digitally printed FC tiles
- Project Description: The FC sheets were cut into 300 x 300mm tiles and the Coco Bliss leaf graphic was printed. The tiles were coated with clear polyurethane and then tiled in the same manner as ceramic tiles.
The Lounge & Co
- Project: The Lounge & Co
- Fabricator: CJ Joinery – Molendinar QLD
- Product: Gen-Eco Ecolite beams & posts digitally printed in Weathered Timber Natural
- Project Description: Fitout of a hair salon at Newstead QLD. The Ecolite beams provide a lightweight solution for what appears to be heavy sleeper beams but are only a fraction of the weight compared to the real thing which produced a big cost saving.
Pimpama City Shopping Centre
- Project: Pimpama City Shopping Centre
- Architect/Designer: TRG
- Builder: Adco Constructions
- Product: Digital print on MDF
- Project Description: Specially ‘toned’ Blackbutt timbergrain digitally printed on MDF. The timber pattern was printed vertically (1200mm width) and the panels were VJ grooved at 200mm centres.
Rose City Ceiling
- Project: Rose City Shopping Centre Warwick QLD
- Architect/Designer: Thomson Adsett
- Builder: McConaghy Built
- Shopfitter: Wadsworth Contracting (Stage 1) Arondale Interiors (Stage 2)
- Product: Digitally printed Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF panels
- Project Description: Digital timbergrain pattern printed onto hollow-core panels for a striking vertical/horizontal ceiling structure.
Coco Bliss Chermside
- Project: CocoBliss Chermside Shopping Centre
- Architect/Designer: Retail Designers
- Shopfitter: 123 Shopfitting
- Product: Digitally printed CFC tiles
- Project Description: 9mm CFC panels were cut into 300 x 300mm tiles and digitally printed with the CocoBliss palm frond graphic. The tiles were coated with anti-graffiti protection and the walls were tiled and grouted in the normal manner. Custom designed tiles for an external application.
QLD X-Ray, Bowen Hills
- Project: QLD X-Ray, Bowen Hills
- Designer: Phillips Smith Conwell
- Installer: Top Knot Carpentry
- Product: Gen-Eco Aluminium Beam with Imagery (Group 1 Fire Rating)
- Project Description: This project required a Group 1 Fire Rated product – the solution, imagery on aluminium beams and posts.
Scottish Pacific
- Project: Scottish Pacific Offices
- Shopfitter: Woodland Shopfitting
- Product: Gen-Ecolite beams
- Project Description: Gen-Ecolite beams digitally printed with Spotted Gum. These beams were custom-shaped to create a smooth, consistent ceiling curve in addition to the large, round down lights.
Pottsville Beach Public School
- Project: Pottsville Beach Public School
- Architect: Conrad Gargett
- Installer: Ideal Commercial NSW
- Product: Gen-Eco Hoop Pine Digital Print on CFC Panels (Group 1 Fire Rating)
- Project Description: This project required a Group 1 Fire Rated product for soffit linings. As traditional plywood was not acceptable, the solution was to digitally print Hoop Pine onto CFC panels.
Calvary North Adelaide
- Project: Calvary North Adelaide
- Designer: Wilshire Swain
- Installer: Rayjon Visual Communications
- Cabinet Maker: Parma Cabinets
- Product: Gen-Eco Group 1 Digitally Printed Eco-Acoustic Panel
- Project Description: A custom printed Graphic has been supplied for this project on a pinable Group 1 fire rated acoustic panel.
Sunny Queen Eggs Reception
- Project: Sunny Queen Eggs Reception
- Architect/Designer: Multi Span Australia
- Builder: Multi Span Australia
- Product: Digital printing on large Balsa core door
- Project Description: Digital printing in a textured timbergrain on a large Balsa core door for board room feature.
Michael Hill Melbourne
- Project: Michael Hill Bourke St Melbourne
- Architect/Designer: Michael Hill In House Design
- Shopfitter: Woodland Shopfitting Brisbane
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: Walnut toned woodgrain digitally printed onto Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams.
Toombul Beams
- Project: Toombul Shopping Centre Upgrade
- Builder: Mainbrace
- Shopfitter: Farrago Interiors
- Product: Gen-Ecolite Balsa/MDF Composite Beams
- Project Description: 75mm thick Gen-Ecolite beams were digitally printed in a timbergrain to match Western Red Cedar. The eight metre long beams were produced using 2 x 2.400 and 1 x 3.600mm joined together. Farrago Interiors manufactured a bracket to allow the cross beams to join on the booker rod intersections.
Burger Urge Rockhampton
- Project: Burger Urge Rockhampton
- Architect/Designer: Burger Urge
- Shopfitter: Trademarc
- Product: Digitally printed plywood panels
- Project Description: The 'look' of aged and distressed recycled timber printed onto CD grade plywood. Cost saving in installion time as the panels can be installed quicker than individual pieces of timber.
Other Timber Products
Dee Why Shopping Centre
- Project: Dee Why Shopping Centre
- Architect: DWP
- Project Description: Gen-Eco Bendy Ply used as a unique ceiling installation.
Southgate Shopping Centre, Sylvania Waters
- Project: Southgate Shopping Centre, Sylvania Waters
- Architect: Villa + Villa
- Installer: Keystone Linings
- Product: Gen-Eco Econo Beams
- Project Description: Gen-Eco Econo foil laminate applied to Balsa/MDF panels and custom formed into a unique ceiling design.
USC Moreton Bay
- Project: USC Moreton Bay
- Fabricator: HPP Group
- Installer: Superior Walls & Ceilings
- Product: Gen-Eco Birch Plywood
- Project Description: This project required a high grade decorative plywood for ceiling and wall panelling. The solution was our A faced Birch plywood which was used for both solid and perforated panels.