What Ranbuild does

Ranbuild is an Australian manufacturer and supplier of custom steel sheds, garages, carports, and rural/commercial buildings, operating as a division of Lysaght Building Solutions, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueScope Steel. Founded in 1949 as R&N Trading Co. in Newcastle, the company transitioned to a dealer distribution model in 1994 and was acquired by Lysaght in 2005. Its product portfolio spans 36+ configurations across four segments: residential (garages, carports, skillion buildings, garaports), commercial (industrial buildings, aircraft hangars, COLAS, shelters), farm/agricultural (machinery sheds, hay sheds, barns, equine facilities), and liveable habitable dwellings meeting Class 1A classification. All products are manufactured using genuine BlueScope COLORBOND and ZINCALUME steel with portal frame engineering systems and carry ShedSafe accreditation and a 15-year warranty.

The company distributes exclusively through a network of over 100 accredited dealers across Australia who provide design consultation, custom quoting, council approval support, delivery, and installation services. Customers can initiate engagement via the Shed Builder 3D design application (available on iOS, Android, and desktop), request quotes online, or visit dealers directly. Ranbuild also facilitates purchases through a partnership with humm90 offering 6 months interest-free financing with terms up to 36 months. Revenue is generated through one-time sales of custom-manufactured shed kits with optional professional installation services provided through dealers. The company is currently focused solely on the Australian market, though it previously maintained international distribution to the Middle East and Southeast Asia during the 1970s-80s.

Name

Ranbuild

Legal name

Lysaght Building Solutions Pty Ltd

Website

https://ranbuild.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1949

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ranbuild is an Australian manufacturer and supplier of custom steel sheds, garages, carports, and rural/commercial buildings, serving residential, commercial, farm, and liveable dwelling customers through a network of over 100 accredited dealers nationwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Steel Shed Manufacturing

NAICS

Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing (332311)

SIC

Prefabricated Metal Buildings & Components (3448)

akta.pro primary industry

Steel Joists, Joist Girders & Decking (IMADACAC)

Keywords

• Steel shed manufacturing
• Residential garage construction
• Prefabricated metal buildings
• Farm shed construction
• Dealer network distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Newcastle

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Shed and Garage Sales: One-time sale of custom-manufactured steel shed kits to customers through the dealer network. Products include residential garages, commercial buildings, farm sheds, liveable sheds, and carports. Sales are custom-configured based on customer requirements.
2. Installation Services: Dealers provide supply-and-install options where they manage council approvals, site preparation, and construction. This adds professional services revenue to the base product sale.
3. Financing Services: Through partnership with humm90, customers can access interest-free financing. Ranbuild benefits from facilitated sales through extended payment options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ranbuild designs, manufactures, and supplies custom-engineered steel sheds, garages, carports, and buildings for residential, commercial, farm, and liveable applications across Australia. The company offers a portfolio of 36+ products organised across Residential, Commercial, Farm Sheds, Equine, and Liveable Shed categories, manufactured using genuine BlueScope COLORBOND and ZINCALUME steel materials. All products are distributed through an exclusive network of more than 100 accredited dealers nationwide who handle design consultation, quoting, council approvals, delivery, and installation.

Product overview

Ranbuild is a manufacturer of Australian-made steel sheds, garages, carports, and rural/commercial buildings, operating as a division of Lysaght Building Solutions (a BlueScope subsidiary). The product portfolio is organized across four main categories: Residential (garages, carports, skillion roofs, garaports, eave garages), Commercial (industrial buildings, aircraft hangars, COLAS, shelters), Farm Sheds (equine facilities, barns, storage, hay, machinery, skillion buildings), and Liveable Sheds (habitable dwellings). Most Popular products include single/double/triple garages, skillion variants, Big G industrial models, and deluxe configurations. The company also offers a Shed Builder 3D design app and financing through humm90. All products are manufactured using genuine BlueScope Steel (COLORBOND and ZINCALUME) and distributed through an Australia-wide dealer network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Covermaster: A premium steel carport brand available through Ranbuild dealers.
• Airmaster
• COLAS

Products and services

• Residential Garages and Sheds Secure, enclosed steel buildings for residential use, protecting vehicles, boats, and providing storage space. Available in single, double, and multi-car configurations with gable or skillion roofs, customisable in dimensions, roof pitch, colours, and accessories.
• Skillion Roof Sheds and Garages Residential buildings featuring single-slope (skillion) roofing with efficient water drainage, suitable for garages, carports, and storage applications in modern architectural settings.
• Carports Open-sided steel shelter structures for vehicles and outdoor areas, available as freestanding or attached units with gable or skillion roof options to protect vehicles and assets from weather.
• Garaports Hybrid structures combining enclosed garage space with extended roof coverage for vehicles, boats, and caravans, providing both secure storage and open-side vehicle protection.
• Garages with Eaves Residential garages featuring eave overhangs on the Deluxe Gable range, providing shade, weather protection, and architectural complement to existing homes.
• Single Garage Compact single-bay steel garage providing secure storage for a single vehicle and equipment in residential settings.
• Double Garage Two-bay residential garage accommodating multiple vehicles or combinations of car and workshop space.
• Triple Garage Three-bay garage providing space for two cars plus workshop area in residential settings.
• Skillion Shed Compact single-slope roof shed suitable for side-of-house installations with limited space requirements and modern architectural appeal.
• Double Skillion Shed with Eaves Double-bay skillion-roof garage featuring eave overhangs designed to complement modern architectural homes.
• Big G Light Industrial Large-span industrial building suitable for farm machinery, storage, or workshop applications with enhanced interior space and large vehicle access.
• Skillion Deluxe with High Roller Door Skillion-roof deluxe building featuring high roller doors for storing large farm machinery, high vehicles, boats, or trucks.
• Deluxe Horizontal Clad Garage with Eaves Premium double garage with horizontal cladding and eave overhangs on both sides and fronts for premium residential applications.
• Skillion Triple Garage with Awning Triple-bay skillion garage featuring an additional awning section for extended outdoor coverage and modern home integration.
• Carport Range Complete range of steel carport structures protecting vehicles and assets from weather elements, with multiple roof and configuration options.
• Industrial Buildings Large-scale commercial steel buildings engineered for warehouses, workshops, and manufacturing facilities with options for vehicle access doors, mezzanine levels, and ventilation systems.
• Airmaster Aircraft Hangars Aircraft hangar structures in the Airmaster range, specifically designed for small to medium aircraft, private hangars, airport facilities, and aviation maintenance workshops.
• COLAS (Covered Outdoor Learning Areas) Covered outdoor structures for educational facilities, fabricated from premium galvanised steel for long-term strength and durability in demanding outdoor environments used by schools and community institutions.
• Commercial Shelters Low-maintenance commercial and community shelter buildings providing cover for various agricultural, industrial, and public applications.
• Equine Skillion Buildings Single-pitch roof structures for horse facilities, applicable to stables, paddock shelters, riding arenas, and barns with roof pitches of 5, 7.5, or 10 degrees and spans up to 9.2 meters.
• Riding Arenas Equestrian steel buildings with limitless width and length, modular design allowing expansion, suitable for riding schools, pony clubs, and private recreational riding facilities.
• Paddock Shelters Steel kit livestock shelters available in gable or skillion configurations, freestanding or attached, sized from 15 to 100 square meters with fire and termite resistance.
• Stable Barns Traditional Australian and American-style barn structures for equine facilities, with flexible wall/roof height, modular frame system, and options for stable doors and mezzanine flooring.
• Stable Buildings Fully customisable modular stable structures based on the portal frame system, enabling future expansion with minimum cost or disruption as equine operations grow.
• Rural Barns Versatile barn-style steel buildings for hay storage, shearing operations, dairy facilities, and general farm use, featuring high side walls and COLORBOND cladding.
• Rural Storage Sheds Customisable farm storage buildings including Grainstores for bulk grain protection and general storage solutions for tools and equipment on rural properties.
• Hay Sheds Open or partially enclosed steel structures engineered specifically for hay and fodder storage with flexible clear spans and adjustable gable roof heights.
• Machinery Sheds Farm equipment storage buildings with adjustable spans, lengths, heights, and bay configurations to accommodate tractors, harvesters, and agricultural machinery.
• Farm Skillion Buildings Cost-efficient single-pitched roof farm buildings ideal for large machinery storage, open frontage access, and often used as awnings or annexes to existing structures.
• Liveable Sheds Habitable dwelling structures meeting Class 1A classification and National Construction Code requirements, customisable as independent stand-alone homes with multiple rooms, bathrooms, and kitchens for use as granny flats, teen spaces, holiday homes, or investment properties.
• Shed Builder App (3D Design Application) 3D shed design and customisation application available on iOS and Android, allowing customers to visualise, size, configure roof pitch, select colours, add doors and windows, and send completed designs to dealers for quoting.
• Interest-Free Finance via humm90 Partner financing program offering 6 months interest-free financing with terms up to 36 months through humm90, available on shed quotes from participating dealers nationwide (with a $99 annual fee and no deposit required).

Quantifiable outcome

• 15-year warranty against corrosion or deterioration for non-marine environments

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• BlueScope Steel / Lysaght Building SolutionsflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerRanbuild is a division of Lysaght Building Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlueScope Steel. This relationship provides exclusive access to genuine LYSAGHT steel building products, COLORBOND steel, and ZINCALUME steel, backed by over 150 years of steel industry experience. All Ranbuild products are manufactured using these premium Australian-made materials.
• Ranbuild Accredited DealerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOver 100 independent dealers across Australia operate as accredited Ranbuild dealers, providing local sales, design consultation, delivery coordination, and installation services. Dealers undergo accreditation and represent the primary distribution channel for all Ranbuild products.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• BlueScope Steel: Parent company of Lysaght Building Solutions (Ranbuild's owner) and one of the world's largest flat-steel producers. Operates broadly across steel manufacturing, coated products (COLORBOND) and pre-engineered buildings — provides both upstream supply and adjacent building-products competition.
• Kingspan Group: Global building materials incumbent with a significant insulated panels and pre-engineered building systems portfolio. Overlaps with Ranbuild in commercial and industrial steel building envelopes at a much larger scale and geographic reach.
• Cornerstone Building Brands: US-listed building products conglomerate encompassing metal building systems, roofing and accessories. Largest North American producer of pre-engineered metal buildings — provides a public-market comparable for scale, channel mix and vertical integration in the prefab metal building category.
• Butler Manufacturing (a BlueScope company): Pre-engineered metal building systems manufacturer owned by BlueScope Steel — a sister business to Ranbuild within the BlueScope group. Serves industrial, commercial and agricultural building markets globally and represents the incumbent reference point for engineered steel building systems.
• ATCO Structures: Global provider of modular and pre-engineered buildings serving industrial, commercial, education and workforce-housing markets. Comparable in scope to Ranbuild's industrial and liveable/habitable shed categories at a larger international scale.

Direct peers

• Fair Dinkum Sheds: Australia-wide distributor of custom-designed steel sheds, garages, barns and industrial buildings operating through a network of local distributors — essentially the same channel-led business model as Ranbuild, with comparable ShedSafe-accredited product range.
• Absco Sheds: One of Australia's largest shed and garage manufacturers, selling DIY kit-form steel buildings nationally. Competes directly with Ranbuild in the residential and light-commercial shed segment with comparable product categories and national distribution.
• Stratco: Australian manufacturer of steel building products including sheds, garages, patios, fencing and roofing. Most direct head-to-head competitor to Ranbuild in the Australian residential and rural shed market, with a similar dealer/distributor model and overlapping COLORBOND/galvanised steel product range.
• Spanlift: Australian manufacturer of pre-engineered steel buildings and sheds for industrial, commercial and rural applications. Competes head-on with Ranbuild's industrial, farm and equine ranges and serves overlapping dealer and direct-buyer channels.

Regional players

• REID Steel: UK-based manufacturer of structural steelwork and pre-engineered steel buildings for industrial, commercial and defence applications. Comparable engineered-steel building manufacturer serving a different geography than Ranbuild — useful as a regional comp for similar end markets and engineering scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/RanbuildSheds
• Xx.com/ranbuildman

Compliance1 record

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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