Tell you the inconvenient thing
If galvanising will look wrong next to the stone, or your footing will not carry the impact rating you asked for, you will hear it before you order rather than after the site inspection.
About
Streetmade is new. The experience behind it is not.
Streetmade was founded to do one thing properly: design and build the objects that sit in Australia's streets, parks and forecourts, and stand behind them afterwards.
The public domain is unforgiving. Everything is touched, climbed on, leaned against, skated, cleaned with a pressure washer and left in the weather. Most of what fails does so for boring reasons, a fixing that was never going to last, a drainage path that was never drawn, a finish specified for the wrong exposure. Streetmade is organised around getting those boring things right.
The founder
Ed Bourke
Ed is a structural engineer. He read engineering at University College Cork, moved to Sydney in 2010, and has spent the years since delivering public domain and street furniture projects, most recently leading delivery at HUB Australasia.
That background is the whole premise of the business. A bench is a simple thing until someone stands on the end of it, a shelter is a roof until the wind loads it, and a lighting column is a cantilever with a mass on the end. Streetmade starts every piece as a structure and finishes it as furniture, rather than the other way round.
How we work
Design for the year nine problem
Slats get replaced, liners get dented, finishes get touched up. Every piece is detailed so the parts that wear can be replaced by a council crew with ordinary tools.
Quote the drawing, not the catalogue
We price what you have actually drawn, including the awkward radius and the non-standard length, instead of pushing you toward the item we already have tooling for.
Australian design and manufacture
Drawn, engineered and built here, so a variation is a phone call and a site visit rather than a shipping container and a six week wait.