WoodSolutions presents Design, Engineer & Build: Achieving Compliance and Performance in Lightweight Timber Frames

Earn CPD points with this practical seminar covering compliance, performance, moisiture risk and future framing standards.

Designed for builders, designers, engineers and certifiers working on real projects.

Lightweight timber framing still carries most of Australia's housing load. But the rules around it are shifting. Standards are changing. Certification is tighter. Moisture, condensation and non-conforming products are under sharper scrutiny. And builders are working with fewer people on site.

This in-person seminar is about dealing with those realities properly.

WoodSolutions presents Design, Engineer & Build: Achieving Compliance and Performance in Lightweight Timber Frames

is a technical seminar, hosted by Timber Queensland, for builders, architects, designers, engineers and certifiers who want clarity. Not theory. Not sales talk. Clear explanations of what complies, what performs, and what causes problems when it is missed.

The program moves from connectors and framing limits through to moisture design in humid climates, systemised timber construction, workforce impacts and LVL compliance. It also looks ahead. The Future Framing Initiative is already reshaping how lightweight timber frames will be designed, documented and approved. This session explains what is coming and what to do about it now.

Speakers are working directly with the standards, the projects and the compliance checks discussed. The focus stays on how things actually get built, inspected and signed off across residential and multi-residential projects in Queensland.

OPEN TO DESIGN & BUILD PROFESSIONALS 

If you are responsible for design decisions, engineering, approvals or construction outcomes, this session is built for you.

 CPD POINTS AVAILABLE

Date:          Thursday 21 May 2026

Location:  Kedron Wavell RSL, 21 Kittyhawk Drive, Brisbane, QLD 4032

Room: Kittyhawk Room

Time:         2.00pm – 6.00pm including afternoon tea and networking drinks and nibbles

Cost:          $50 for Non- Members, $25 for TQ Members

REASONS TO ATTEND

• Understand what is changing in lightweight timber framing standards and what that means for Australian Standards, the NCC and certification reviews.

• Get clear guidance on the uses and limits of traditional timber connectors, including where errors commonly occur and how they show up on site.

• Learn practical approaches to managing moisture and condensation risk in timber frames designed for humid Queensland conditions.

• Hear a frank discussion about productivity, labour, site safety and supervision, and how framing systems affect the people building them.

• See how kit-of-parts and systemised timber framing works in practice, including documentation, tolerances and sequencing.

• Protect your business by learning how to identify conforming LVL and avoid the legal and commercial risks attached to non-conforming products.

• Earn CPD points through structured technical education delivered by WoodSolutions and Timber Queensland — trusted educators to the building industry for over a decade.

• Spend time with people facing the same decisions, inspections and pressures you are — over afternoon tea and a post-seminar networking function.

PROGAM

2.00pm - 2.30pm

Registration, Tea & Coffee

Exhibitor Room Open

2.30pm - 2.40pm

Welcome & Policy Update regarding Queensland Future Timber Plan

Mick Stephens, CEO, Timber Queensland

2.40pm - 3.00pm

Uses and limitations of traditional lightweight, timber connectors - do’s and don’ts for timber connections

Matt Smith, Technical Consultant, Timber Queensland

3.00pm - 3.25pm

PANEL DISCUSSION

Productivity Comes from People: Materials, Methods and the People Behind the Build

This panel will explore whether material and system choices influence not only compliance and performance, but also the experience of the people delivering projects on site — at a time when labour remains one of the industry’s most constrained resources.

Facilitator: Christine Briggs. Timber Framing Campaign Manager, FWPA

Panelists:

David Leete, Senior Building Services Advisor, Master Builders Queensland

Colin Taverner, Technical Sales & Business Development, Meyer Timber / Licensed Builder

Craig Klinge, Engineer, MiTek

Additional construction industry panelists to be announced.

3.25pm - 3.45pm

Eliminate moisture & condensation risks: designing high‑performance timber frames for humid climates

Nick Hewson, Director, Arboralis

3.35pm Afternoon Tea

4.00pm - 4.15pm

The Future Framing Initiative: What’s Changing and What Industry Should Prepare for Now

David Zhang, Chief Engineer, Multinail & Committee Member Future Framing Initiative

4.15pm - 4.40pm

CASE STUDY

From Framing to Systems – Delivering Housing with a Timber Kit‑of‑Parts Model

Invited speaker: Peter Morrison, CEO, Green Timber Technology

4.40pm - 5.00pm

Using LVL in Timber Framing: Compliance, Certification and Avoiding Non‑Conforming Product

Invited speaker: Phil Irving, General Manager QLD, Tillings

5.00pm - 6.00pm

Networking function

* Program subject to changes

Event Exhibitors

Interested in exhibiting at this event? Contact Clarissa Brandt, General Manager Strategic Relations & Communications - clarissa@timberqueensland.com.au