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Taller in Timber: multi-residential and commercial buildings

Event Type: Seminar
Date: Thursday 23 April 2015
Location: Moda Events - Portside. Level 2, Portside Wharf, 39 Hercules Street, Hamilton.

Event Description

Timber Queensland presents “Taller in timber: multi-residential and commercial buildings” as an opportunity for building professionals to understand how changes to Australia’s Building Code has broadened the range of buildings in which timber can be used as the primary construction material.

Event Program

  • Understand the products and systems that are making MRTFC an achievable reality
  • Evaluate the changes the Building Code which allow tall timber buildings
  • Discover where to obtain light weight & mass timber construction technical resources & design guides
  • Find out the ‘system-based’ benefits of using new building systems
  • Hear the answers to address any fire safety concerns

2.15

Registration.  Tea & Coffee.

2.30

Welcome and Introduction - Rod McInnes, CEO, Timber Queensland

2.35

Why engineered wood products make it easier to build higher. Overview of the engineered wood products and systems available in Australia & internationally that are making MRTFC a reality.               Simon Dorries, General Manager, Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia (EWPAA) 

3.00

Changes in the Building Codes – the tall truth - Colin Mackenzie, Technical Consultant, Timber Queensland

3.25

Afternoon Tea

3.50

Designing & building tall timber residential buildings – challenges & rewards. Robert De Brincat, Tilling Timber

4.15

What could go wrong? Fire safety in timber buildings.  Mark Catchpole, Catchpole Building Services

4.45

Open Mic Session – Ask the Experts.  All your timber related questions answered

5.00

Conclusion & Cocktail function

 

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