before you send anybody money
Who we are
Five Element Group is an architecture and building-physics practice in South Melbourne. Four things go on under the one roof, and the shop is the smallest of them — it exists because a studio accumulates equipment, and a good machine sitting in a cupboard is a waste of a good machine.
Five Element Architecture
Houses and alterations, designed around how a place will feel to live in rather than how it photographs. Mind-maps before floor-plans.
fiveelementarchitecture.com →Building Physics Australia
The measuring half: NatHERS ratings, Passivhaus and PHPP, Section J, thermal bridging and the reports councils ask for. Numbers, with the assumptions written down.
buildingphysics.au →Working Record
The back-office software the practice runs on — projects, timesheets, invoicing, the bank and the BAS in one place. Built for ourselves first, now sold to other practices.
workingrecord.com.au →This shop
Equipment that has done its time in the studio, and a few things we make. Sold with a real invoice rather than left in a cupboard.
how buying here works
Nothing unusual, which is the point
- Pick the thing, fill in four fields, and say whether you are collecting it.
- We raise a proper tax invoice in our own books — GST included, your name on it.
- You pay it by card on our payment page. Nothing is charged until you do.
- We email you to arrange collection, or to confirm postage.
Every sale is invoiced through the same system the practice bills its clients with, so there is a record on both sides. If something is wrong with what you bought, write to us — the address is on the invoice and at the bottom of this page.