Author: TTN Admin

Australia’s timber industry can stand to profit from the rise in modular building across the nation, enhancing the building sector and offering employment opportunities for workers from industries that have been downsized.

Sometimes the best ideas are born from the most unlikely of circumstances, and that’s exactly what happened when Joe Hackett shared a beer nearly four years ago with his now business partner Damien Whitnall – and the rest, as they say, is history.

RAL Homes is the prefabricated timber housing business conceived and run by Reiny and his wife Lorraine. The acronym originally stood for “˜Reiny and Lorraine’, but now it professionally stands for “˜Relax and Live’, the perfect summary for the lifestyle he envisions for the future owners of a RAL home.

A two year project to support the skills development of Victoria’s next generation of timber and wood workers and designers recently concluded, with stunning results.