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Chalet / 2025 / Commercial Hotel / Photography by Lucas Wilkinson
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Is this Australia’s highest mass timber building?
At an elevation of approx. 1,798m, Caruthers Chalet on Front Valley at Perisher Ski Resort is susceptible to some of Australia’s harshest weather and access conditions. Despite this, our team took it from blockwork to finished product in just 19 weeks.

























Carruthers Chalet is brand new, ski-in, ski-out accommodation on Front Valley at Perisher Ski Resort within the Kosciuszko National Park. With a tight winter deadline (we thought Christmas was challenging, wait ‘til you try winter), and extremely challenging access and weather conditions, we had our work cut out for us.
Against all odds, our team delivered the project in time for our client to open the doors for the ski season’s “opening weekend”, also the date of a compulsory stop-work due to snow conditions and ski resort opening. This was achieved largely due to the mass timber construction, the material for which landed on site, all the way from Austria, 19 weeks before the stop-work.
We’re incredibly proud of this delivery result, particularly given that this is a class 3 building with a complex fire solution in the middle of a remote national park.
The accommodation is unique in that it is some of the only brand new development in the national park, and in fact is completely accessible. It is warm, luxurious, convenient and just so much fun. The team on-site are doing a brilliant job rolling out their service and we couldn’t be more proud to have a part in this exciting addition to Perisher’s offering.
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We are stoked to have partnered with so many amazing Australian businesses on this project - many of them local to the Snowy Mountains. A true meeting of minds and a fantastic result, especially to utilise European CLT in this remote NSW location. Huge cheers to everyone involved!
— Andy Knight, Brother Nature