An impossible brick façade — how we solved it with prefabrication and LGS

Prefabricated modular lightweight steel frame facade with a brick slip system by CMG Frames at Mcnab Avenue, Footscray.

Slow, expensive and impractical — that’s how the McNab Place project in Footscray would have been with traditional construction methods. The apartment building’s podium façade is reminiscent of historic masonry buildings. Its highly articulated brick façade features deep, corbelled arches and stepped brickwork wrapped around the structure. For Roberts Co. builders, this presented a challenge. “When […]