The Outdoor Structures story

Timber Awards & Endorsements

Ted's Curriculum Vitae (600KB PDF)

The original company, Gatton Sawmilling Co., was founded in 1950 by Mr. Edgar D. Stubbersfield in partnership with others. Edgar was a builder but had become so dissatisfied with the quality of the timber available for house construction that he started his own sawmill.

Our business was founded with a commitment to quality. This policy continues to this day and is evidenced by our products being formally recognised as being of exceptional quality.

We traded from the same premises in Gatton since our inception, adding to our initial sawmilling activities a planing mill as well as a treatment plant, cartage division, logging operation and private forests. Gatton, where the business is situated, is a small university town (6,000 people) in South East Queensland about 1 hours' drive west of the State capital, Brisbane. It is also on the main transport routes to southern states.

In January 1997 the business was split into separate trading entities. This allowed Ted Stubbersfield (Edgar's son) to concentrate on weather exposed timber structures for both domestic and export markets. Early in 2000 Gatton Sawmilling Co. changed its name to Outdoor Structures Australia Pty. Ltd.

In 2012, the time came to close Outdoor Structures and for Ted to go into semi-retirement. Ted made an arrangement with Chris Blackledge who had been in charge of production to lease the premises, purchase the equipment and continue manufacturing our products under license.

He started a new company called Infrastrucxion Pty Ltd as the vehicle to do this. Ted has been engaged as a consultant to assist Chris in the transition.

Our aim is to constantly improve and add to our already extensive range of products.

Contact Ted Stubbersfield
Contact Ted to discuss how he assisst your organisation through timber design consultancy »:
Phone: 07 5462 5532
Mobile: 0414 770 261
Email

Contact Infrastrucxion
Contact Chris Blackledge of Infrastrucxion Pty. Ltd. for timer products and sales on:
Phone: +61 (7) 5462 4255
chris@outdoorstructures.com.au

Or visit our enquiry page.

Australian Technology Showcase video
Watch Ted Stubbersfield share something of the utdoor Structures difference on this Australian Technology Showcase video.
Click image to watch.

4 min 15MB .wmv file. Or Download

"We started with $24,000, a planer on lease, about $90,000 in stock and some land leased from the family.

We have since changed the company name, rebuilt the treatment plant to modern environmental standards, added a kiln, new planer, out-feed and storage shed."

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The Australian Technology Showcase

The Australian Technology Showcase (ATS) is designed to promote global, leading-edge, Australian innovative technologies. The ATS aims to increase exports and attract foreign and local venture capital.

The Australian and Queensland Governments have been keen supporters of the ATS since its inception in April 1997. The national focus of the ATS demonstrates the Australian and State Goveernments' commitment to the promotion of Australian science, engineering and technology international, and also serves to increase awareness of Australia's capacity in leading-edge skills and technologies.

A panel of independent experts in each state or territory rigorously assesses all applicant technologies to ensure they are clearly innovative and leading-edge. Membership to the showcase is reliant upon the technology meeting certain criteria for eligibility. The technology must be:

Clearly innovative and represent a signaificant step forward in the technology itself or its utilisation
Scientifically credible based on secure principles and understanding
Of significant local content in terms of intellectual property or embodied skills
Demonstrably marketable with an identified existing or potential market advantage and a substantial identified market
Commercially attractive and likely to appeal to international investors and/or offering opportunities for joint venturing
Socially and enviornmentally beneficial by meeting community needs or standards.

Outdoor Structures Australia has been granted membership into the Australian Technology Showcase for its innovative Deckwood, LifePlus® Decking and Bollards products.