From Paddock to Pre-Fab: Doing Timber Business in Queensland 2025 Conference

July 23, 2025 by Kurt Cunningham

Forest and Wood Products Australia is proud to sponsor: From Paddock to Pre-Fab: Doing Timber Business in Queensland 2025 Conference.

The Doing Timber Business in Queensland conferences have earned a prestigious reputation for delivering quality content and speakers in great venues.

Themed Building Farm Resilience and co-hosted with AgForce Queensland (including the evening networking event, Carving out Connections: Steaks and Stumps Industry Dinner), Day 1 is focused on the unique links and opportunities for Queensland’s forest and beef industry to collaborate and prosper, with sessions exploring farm forestry, certification and carbon markets.

Day 2 expands the conversation with a program focused on the theme of Building our Future in Timber, with sessions traversing engineered timber, modern construction, framing specification and mid-rise housing.

Held in Brisbane from 2–3 September, the conference brings together growers, producers, processors, builders, investors and innovators to shape the future of Queensland’s forest and timber industries. It’s a rare chance to see the full picture of where the industry is heading and participate in two days of discussion, insight and action.

Day 1 – Building Farm Resilience

Tuesday 2 September | Walkabout Creek, Brisbane

Co-hosted with AgForce Queensland

Discover how trees, timber and cattle can work together to deliver better returns, stronger land stewardship and new market opportunities.

  • Queensland’s Future Timber Plan & private native forestry

  • The implications of EUDR and illegal logging regulations

  • Silvopastoral systems and insights from the “Steak n Wood” project

  • Financial performance of timber-beef-carbon stacking

  • AgCarE and natural capital tools for reporting

  • Fixing carbon markets for landholders

Round out the day with networking over lunch and afternoon tea, plus our evening industry dinner,

Carving out Connections: Steaks and Stumps, co-hosted with AgForce Queensland at Rydges Fortitude Valley.

 

Day 2 – Building our Future in Timber

Wednesday 3 September | Aurecon, 25 King Street

 

Shift the focus to construction and timber’s role in solving Australia’s housing and climate challenges:

  • Delivering on housing demand

  • Why timber works in modern methods of construction (MMC)

  • Timber-framed mid-rise apartments and simplified design tools

  • Social housing innovation using mass timber

  • Code change updates allowing 18-storey timber buildings

 

The afternoon includes site tours to showcase innovation in action:

  • 25 King St – Australia’s tallest timber commercial building

  • SigmaBuild – Hybrid prefabrication using CLT, LVL and steel

  • Wat Thai Buddharam Temple – Local truss and frame case study

Join decision-makers, innovators and professionals for dynamic sessions, site tours, and networking events – all focused on driving growth and resilience in Queensland’s timber industry.

Whether you’re in farming, forestry, design, construction or policy, this is your chance to connect with the full supply chain and shape what’s next.