Steel frames and trusses for Logan

Supplying Logan from Crowley Vale

What to know about building in Logan

From Logan City Council, state agencies, the Bureau of Meteorology and the ABS. Each item links to its source.

• Temporary Local Planning Instrument No. 1/2024 commenced on 6 March 2025, giving effect to updated risk-based flood mapping and policy in the City of Logan.

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• The Yarrabilba Priority Development Area (2,222 ha, 20 km south of Logan Central) will provide up to 20,000 dwellings for up to 50,000 people.

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• Logan City Council's Beenleigh Implementation Plan sets place-based actions for Beenleigh for 2023-2029.

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• The 2021 Census counted 8,425 people in Beenleigh, where 17.6% of occupied dwellings were flats or apartments and 19.0% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses.

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• Logan City Council records that the March 2017 flood from ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie gave Beenleigh its highest flood since 1887, rated at slightly greater than a 1% AEP event on the Albert River at Beenleigh.

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• As part of Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail, Beenleigh station is to be relocated about 650 m north to between Zander and Victoria streets, closer to community facilities and away from flood-prone areas.

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• The Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail project will provide four tracks along the 20 km rail corridor between Kuraby and Beenleigh.

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Frame design in Logan

Wind classification

Set lot by lot in Logan under AS 4055; send us your site's classification with the plans. · How wind classes work

Flood levels

Check Logan City Council's flood information for the lot first. If it sets a minimum floor level, a raised steel floor system is one way to meet it. · Steel floor systems

Growth-area builds

Repeated house designs in Logan's growth areas suit factory-made frames: each repeat is made to the same engineered drawings. · Steel framing for developers

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