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Harness the power of the Ultimate Renewable to reduce carbon emissions and improve health

Event Type: Seminar
Date: Tuesday 28 March 2023
Location: Via Zoom

Event Description

Increasing concerns about the building and construction industry’s contribution to global carbon emissions must focus on addressing the carbon locked in a structure when it’s built in the first place. Responsibly sourced wood and wood products are not only a beautiful and functional part of our everyday lives, they are renewable resources that store carbon and have low embodied energy. This Timber Queensland webinar assembles a panel of experts who will provide clear facts about sustainably growing and harvesting hardwood and softwood trees, the tools available to help buyers and specifiers make informed decisions about the environmental performance of products and explain why we feel better when we are in a timber building.

Event Program

Increasing concerns about the building and construction industry’s contribution to global carbon emissions must focus on addressing the carbon locked in a structure when it’s built in the first place. Responsibly sourced wood and wood products are not only a beautiful and functional part of our everyday lives, they are renewable resources that store carbon and have low embodied energy.

This Timber Queensland webinar assembles a panel of experts who will provide clear facts about sustainably growing and harvesting hardwood and softwood trees, the tools available to help buyers and specifiers make informed decisions about the environmental performance of products and explain why we feel better when we are in a timber building.

Attend this event to:

Know where timber comes from: learn the basic principles of sustainable forest management

Learn how to reduce embodied carbon in construction projects

Find out how Life Cycle Assessments work and how to utilise Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)

Evaluate the health & wellbeing benefits of biophlic design

 

FREE REGISTRATION VIA ZOOM HERE

11.00 am

Welcome and introduction

Clarissa Brandt, Strategic Relations & Communications Manager, Timber Queensland

11.05am

Grow. Harvest. Repeat: sustainable forestry management & certification


Timber’s ability to enable quick and efficient construction is clear, but this can’t be at the expense of sustainability. With timber becoming an increasingly important resource for ensuring sustainable low carbon construction, it’s crucial to understand exactly where it comes from and the principles of sustainable forest management.

Matt De Jongh, Sustainability Manager, Responsible Wood

11.30am

Tips & Tools: reducing the construction industry’s carbon footprint
 

Understanding and addressing embodied carbon is essential to decarbonise Australia’s built environment.  This includes reducing what we call ‘upfront embodied carbon’ – the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases locked into our buildings from the day the first sod is turned, and construction begins. Learn how you can reduce embodied energy on your own projects by procuring low-carbon products, understanding how Life Cycle Assessments work and utilising Environmental Product Declarations (EPD’s).  

Steve Mitchell, Principal Consultant, thinkstep-anz

11.55am

Wood and Biophilic Design: health, wellbeing & restoration benefits

Visual connection with nature can lower blood pressure and heart rate, improve mental engagement, and attentiveness, and positively impact attitude and overall happiness. See how using increased amounts of timber in a building can be linked to lower incidence of depression, heart disease, and diabetes. 

David Rowlinson, Campaign Manager, Planet Ark

12.20pm

Short Q&A

12.30pm

Conclusion

Time: 11.00 am - 12.30pm AEST (Brisbane time)

This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. 

FREE REGISTRATION VIA ZOOM HERE USE THIS LINK NOT THE BOOK ONLINE LINK BELOW.

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