Join us for a special seminar aimed at those involved in the timber system supply chain.
This event will update and educate timber manufacturers and suppliers with the knowledge and tools to build their confidence and businesses. Guest speakers will explore wood processing, engineering characteristics and the latest developments in delivering high performance timber buildings in the Perth market. Following these presentations we will have a special panel session discussing how we can plan for covering the skills gap for timber framing now and into the future.
Target attendees: Frame & Truss, Offsite Fabricators, Timber Merchants, Trades
Agenda
- 7.30am Registration & breakfast
- 8.00am Introduction
- 8.15am Wood quality, properties and processing (Jon Shanks, TimberEd)
- 8.45am Timber Building Performance (Ian Hamilton, SW Structures)
- Overview of Moisture, Thermal, Fire, Acoustic
- 9.15am Timber Systems
- Products and systems that deliver building envelope performance (JH, Proclima, others TBC)
- 10am Skills Gap Panel
- Bernadette Amos (Training Council WA)
- Tiffany Allen (Construction Training Fund)
- F&T / Fabricator (Offsite)
- Michael McGowan (HIA)
- 10.30am-11am Close / Networking

