Todd Newman Builders and Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd received top honours tonight at the Northern Master Builders Regional Building Awards, held at the Commercial Club in Albury.

Todd Newman Builders was named Residential Builder of the Year (Northern) for a third year in a row, this time for building a double-storey home in Bendigo that reveals its numerous merits only to those who enter.

The home includes four bedrooms, master suite including wall-to-wall joinery and a light-filled ensuite with clerestory windows, a study and gymnasium.

“One of the impressive details about this home is the way the builders made excellent use of the graphic character inherent in the natural materials of surfaces and joinery,” Master Builders Victoria CEO Radley de Silva said. “The dark veins and threads in the stone, for example, become part of the visual structure of spaces.”

Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd was named Commercial Builder of the Year (Northern) for its work on the Bendigo Kangan Institute Health and Community Centre of Excellence.

“Outstanding features of this project include the simulation labs that create highly realistic work environments for the students—hospital wards and ensuites, aged-care wards, pathology wings and early-childhood centres,” Mr de Silva said.

“These kinds of facilities help to meet the urgent needs of our aging and rapidly growing population in Victoria,” he said.

Todd Newman Builders will now compete in the Victorian Excellence in Housing Awards to be held on 12 October in Melbourne. Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd will compete in the Victorian Excellence in Construction Awards to be held on 10 August.

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4NE

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18NE

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Superior Living Homes

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12NE

Best Display Home over $500,000

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27NW

Best Custom Home $200,000-$300,000

Todd Newman Builders

Project: Epsom

2NE

Best Custom Home $300,000-$400,000

Southern Vale Homes

Project: Leneva

5NE

Best Custom Home $400,000-$500,000

M&L Nardella Home Builders P/L

Project: Shepparton

30NW

Best Custom Home $500,000-$600,000

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29NW

Best Custom Home $600,000-$800,000

Peter Brown Building & Carpentry Services

Project: Strathfieldsaye

28NW
Best Custom Home $1M-$2M

Todd Newman Builders

Project: Bendigo

20NE

Best Multi-Unit Development up to 3 Units

J & J Carroll Pty Ltd

Project: Albury

33NW

Best Multi-Unit Development 4 to 12 Units

Winning Homes

Project: Moama

26NW

Best Sustainable Home

VR Builders

Project: Maldon

24NE

Excellence in Construction of Commercial Buildings $1M to $3M

Connelly Construction Services

Project: Victory Lutheran College, Wodonga

32NW

Excellence in Construction of Commercial Buildings $3M to $6M

A W Nicholson Pty Ltd

Project: Bendigo Tennis Centre, Bendigo

31NW

Excellence in Construction of Commercial Buildings over $6M

Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd

Project: Bendigo Kangan Institute Health and Community Centre of Excellence, Bendigo

28NW

Regional Residential Builder of the Year Northern

Todd Newman Builders

Project: Bendigo

31NW

Regional Commercial Builder of the Year Northern

Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd

Project: Bendigo Kangan Institute Health and Community Centre of Excellence, Bendigo