An Australian offsite fabricator that uses robots to assemble flat‑packed timber panels like IKEA furniture has struck its largest partnership to date with White Picket Fence, which will see Green Timber Technology work with White Picket Fence’s Brooklyn Homes to construct 100 new homes over the next 13 months using a model that could be scaled to 2,000 homes a year as capacity increases.
The agreement pairs Green Timber Technology’s factory-built wall, floor, and roof panels with Brooklyn Homes’ delivery framework, promising to compress traditional building cycles and reduce the weather and scheduling delays that routinely stall new housing.
Produced in a controlled facility in Orange, in New South Wales, the panels use locally sourced Australian pine timber and are designed using Design for Manufacture and Assembly principles and arrive on site ready for rapid erection, turning months of work into weeks.
“White Picket Fence understands the challenges buyers and developers face in the current housing environment,” according to Pete Morrison, Green Timber Technology’s CEO. “Our production systems align well with their delivery framework, allowing us to achieve shorter build cycles with greater certainty and accountability.”
Founded in 2019 and led by CEO Phil Leahy, White Picket Fence is a one-stop shop for property acquisition from loan approval to handover. Its vertically integrated model — which includes Empower Money, Property Gateway Partners, and a conveyancing partnership with Bluecrest Legal — supplies the financing and back‑office scaffolding that make fast, predictable delivery commercially viable.
“Working with GTT enables us to complete homes in around three months instead of six, with improved control over timing and quality,” Leahy said. “It simplifies scheduling, reduces on‑site delays, and gives our clients clearer cost expectations.”
The new partnership is an industrial response to bottlenecks in Australia’s housing supply chain, including fragmented subcontracting, labour shortages, and volatile material pricing. By transferring much of the work into a factory setting and applying automated assembly, the partners aim to reduce uncertainty for buyers and developers while improving predictability for finance and construction schedules.
“Our goal has always been to deliver dependable building systems that support more sustainable and efficient housing outcomes,” Morrison said. “This collaboration allows both organisations to contribute to housing supply in a structured and measurable way.”
- To learn why Australia “must go its own way” in using modern methods of construction (MCC) to solve its housing shortage, click here for Wood Central’s special feature last month.
