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Developer: Roderick Holdings
Architect: Timothy Moon Architects
Builder: Armadello Constructions
Bricklayer: Mantra Contracting
Austral Bricks products:
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Bowral Blue clay bricks |
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Bowral Shorthorn Mix clay bricks(including 45 degree squint bricks) |
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Commons Bricks, Standard 76, 119 and 162 |
Rick Miller (left, with Kevin Thomson of Mantra Contracting) is a licensed builder with a degree in economics. Miller has applied the combination of Bowral Blue and Shorthorn bricks successfully to a succession of Lower North Shore development projects.
Soon after talking with developer Rick Miller you appreciate that he has a firm grasp on the technicalities of building, as well as the economics. “I’m a licensed builder, not just a guy with white shoes.” After completing an economics degree he took up a building cadetship, adding a Bachelor of Building to his skillset.
Miller’s latest project is a short stroll from Neutral Bay Junction on Sydney’s fashionable Lower North Shore. The 14 apartments range from 120 to 135 square metres, all but two with three bedrooms, and priced from $890,000 to $1.3 million. “For a unit of this size in this location that’s a good price,” Miller claims. |
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The combination of Bowral Blue and Shorthorn Mix is one he has specified consistently for some years. “They are a Federation style brick and suit the look that Mosman likes, both the council and the people.”
Commons clay bricks were laid for the inner leaf of the cavity walling, and in some partition walls. Walls between units comprise commons bricks in one leaf and 150 mm concrete blocks in the other. “Kevin Thomson and his team did a good job,” Miller says commending the work of bricklayers, Mantra Contracting.
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