Candour

Candour is revolutionising construction by increasing access to advanced manufacturing for Architects, Builders and Designers. Developed by award-winning Architects, our design-led system provides clarity at every stage of the building process.

During the design phase Architects use our CAD plugins to incorporate prefabricated building components into their plans. The plugins provide instant pricing and buildability advice through a direct connection to our fabrication facility, allowing rapid manufacturing and transport to site.

Saving time in design and construction, Candour facilitates the delivery of high-quality and sustainable buildings to more people.

Candour produces a suite of building components that make up the core of a building - the floor, walls, roof and façade.

Connected to each component is a CAD plugin with embedded manufacturing, costing and technical information, paired with standardised details for quick integration into your documentation.

Each component can be specified individually or combined into an integrated building solution with many benefits.

Streamline your Workflow

Our CAD plugins connect designers directly to our factory floor, eliminating middlemen and reducing design timelines. Avoid complex redesigns by modelling with insight that enables informed decisions early in the process.

Using Candour helps to increase the capacity of your design practice or building company by reducing the hours and resources needed to complete a project.

Design with Certainty

Our CAD plugins automatically calculate fabrication costs as you model. This provides instant pricing at the start of the process, allowing designers and homeowners to make decisions with certainty and confidence.

We can locally manufacture anything our CAD tool draws, ensuring all designs are buildable and within budget from the outset of a project.

Integrated into Archicad and REVIT, our CAD plugins eliminate the need to up-skill or learn new software.

‍Design with Control

Unlike other prefabrication systems, buildings designed using Candour aren't limited to modules or set layouts. This enables freedom to adapt the configuration and form of your buildings to suit different clients, contexts and climates.

By providing the structural frame of the building the Candour system allows you to clad and finish buildings with almost any material desired. Avoid the ‘one size fits all’ aesthetic of traditional prefabrication and express your architectural style and aesthetics.

‍Build Sustainably

Designed by Architects, the Candour system offers the highest environmental performance. The airtight design achieves no thermal bridging reducing post-occupancy power consumption. The system can easily be designed to achieve PassivHaus standards.

Our building components are made from local timber sourced from PEFC-certified, regrowth forests. Inherently sustainable, timber has low embodied energy and the ability to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere. By using structural mass timber, the need for steel is greatly reduced and in some cases removed completely.

Offsite manufacturing and assembly further reduce the significant waste of traditional onsite construction.

Build with Confidence

Construction time on site is reduced by the structure of the building being prefabricated, coordinated and installed by one supplier.

By utilising timber construction Candour components can be easily installed and modified onsite by tradesmen using traditional tools. This allows onsite flexibility for design variations and reduces the need for upskilling, making for an approachable and easily understood construction system.

Access Innovation

Candour’s systems and components have been designed and developed by multi-award-winning architecture practice, Archier. We have partnered with local suppliers, such as ASH timber and Binq windows, to ensure every aspect of the system is of the highest quality.

With the 6 Axis Hundegger ROBOT-Drive timber saw we can sculpt timber up to 1200mm wide x 300mm tall into an expansive array of timber joints. Sanders, paint machines and spray booths finish our timber to the highest quality creating beautiful architecture.

We’re constantly improving our processes to ensure we’re implementing the most appropriate and up-to-date technologies available. This includes developing new CAD plugins for designers and builders, such as live engineering.

By focusing on each step of the building process, we have created a streamlined system that Architects, Builders and Clients can easily engage with.

• Building Components

Candour manufactures a suite of customisable prefabricated building components that make up the core of a building - the floor, walls, roof and façade.

• Digital Design Tools

Each building component is linked to a CAD plugin in Archicad and REVIT. This automates the connection between the designer and our manufacturing facility, providing instant accurate pricing as you draft. Create with confidence.

• Component Selection

Each building component can be specified individually or combined. Choose what elements you want to use to reap the benefits of a prefabricated panelised system from one supplier. Maximise the benefits by using the entire Candour system.

• Customisable Design

The CAD plugin allows you to create a custom layout and form without having to spend time learning about the requirements of the prefabrication process. Simple and intuitive they allow better design outcomes and more creative freedom.

• Standard Contracts

When the design is finalised and ready to build Candour becomes the nominated supplier of the selected building components for the already quoted price. Industry-standard contracts and financing arrangements are all that is required.

• Automated Manufacturing

During the construction process we work directly with the builder to coordinate the manufacture and delivery of the components.

• Integrated Installation

Quickly reach the building “lock-up” stage. The more components you use the quicker the installation process will be.