Timber engineering engagement
The Centre for Future Timber Structures aims to contribute to many parts of the process leading to the successful construction of timber and timber hybrid structures.
We facilitate a number of engagement activities to facilitate knowledge sharing, professional engagement programs, and public showcasing of timber as a building material.
Professor Keith Crews, from The University of Queensland, who is Director of the Centre for Future Timber Structures has been featured in this recent article about how companies that are looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions are turning to mass timber as a climate and building solution.
3E Panels is a hybrid fibre reinforced polymer (FRP)-timber thin-walled wall panel system developed by world leading scientists/engineers from University of Queensland and University of London, with exclusive know-how of the technology. It integrates traditional building developments with the environmental demands of modern clients resulting in much flexible, economical and environmentally responsible outcomes. 3E Panels are high performing, high efficient, light weight, easy to install, economical, and CO2 negative and can be prefabricated with easy-to-access materials worldwide, thus significantly reducing on-site time and labour cost.
The highly innovative project is considered an exemplar project by the Centre who carried out a full 3D scan of the existing structure and have brought a range of intellectual property to the design team.
Dr Luis Yerman, Dr Felix Wiesner and Dr Lisa Ottenhaus from the Centre for Future Timber Structures (CFTS) spoke to Australasian Timber magazine about their upcoming engineered wood projects and how timber buildings could be the way of the future.