With over twenty years’ experience, the Grove Group are specialists when it comes to modular and relocatable buildings. Grove is the largest privately-owned supplier of temporary buildings to the construction industry and now has a substantial share of the education market.

The education market itself has also grown in recent times with the Relocatable Building Program (RBP) and permanent modular buildings being used in schools, to provide facilities quickly and efficiently across Victoria. From general-purpose portable classrooms being the norm, to two-storey and three-storey classrooms now becoming popular.

Dave Burn, Group Procurement Officer at Grove Group calculated, “We are using approximately one thousand sheets of Ecoply Plyfloor a month to provide strong and stable floors for our modular and relocatable buildings.”

Ecoply^® Plyfloor^® is a tongue and groove flooring panel product. Made with cross-laminated veneers, Plyfloor offers superior span, strength and durability compared to most other flooring substrate systems of the same thickness.

Plywood is exceptionally efficient in its use of materials, providing more sheets with less timber.

Plyfloor is available in a variety of thicknesses, appearance and stress grades with C and D surface grades, and H2-S or H3 LOSP treated against termite and fungal attack.

Made in Myrtleford in Victoria, Ecoply Plyfloor ticks both the ‘Local content’ and ‘Supporting the regions’ boxes. It is also made using FSC^® certified, sustainably grown plantation Radiata Pine.

Most Government and Tier 1 construction projects now have targets in terms of sustainability and social procurement – with some requiring up to 96 percent local content.

For Carter Holt Harvey, Ecoply is about more than ticking boxes. The mill at Myrtleford has been an integral part of the local community for more than fifty years. The mill provides employment for over 200 locals and attracts new people to the area. Even the logs are grown and harvested locally.

Ecoply is carbon negative. Even when you take the carbon produced by manufacturing and transportation into account. It’s efficiently made with minimal waste and is durable and easy to work with. It also has fewer carbon miles compared to imported products.

Grove Group are building modular buildings 75 - 95 percent faster than building on site, so building efficiently is clearly important. And Ecoply Plyfloor gets “No complaints from the guys on the floor,” added Burn. Another tick of approval.

To learn more, watch the video ‘Building sustainably in plywood’.