Recent FWPA sponsored events have included …
evokeAG Down to Earth
evokeAG is Asia Pacific’s premier agrifood tech event, bringing together stakeholders from across the entire ecosystem to connect and collaborate. This year’s evokeAG was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia between Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 February. It explored how farming, tech, science, and people collectively have the power to bring innovative ideas to life.
For more information on this and the planned 2024 evokeAG event, click here.
ABARES Outlook 2023
Delegates who attended the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Outlook 2023 event heard from more than 60 speakers across 13 sessions at the National Convention Centre in Canberra. They explored a range of issues facing Australian agriculture, including the national and global outlook, trade, labour market issues, commodities, fisheries, food manufacturing, biosecurity and more.
To discover more about ABARES Outlook events, click here.
International Research Group on Wood Protection annual meeting
For the first time in twenty years the International Research Group on Wood Protection (IRG) hosted its annual meeting in Australia. FWPA was delighted to welcome organisers and delegates to Queensland, with the support of the FWPA Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life, and the attendance of Chris Lafferty, FWPA RD&E Manager.
The IRG54 meeting took place from Sunday 28 May to Thursday 1 June 2023 at the Pullman Hotel in Cairns, with hundreds of experts from around the world gathering to discuss and share the latest updates on significant global research in the field of biosecurity as it relates to wood.
Attendees were also given the opportunity to take a pre-meeting tour of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries South Johnstone Research Station on the Sunday, where much of the timber durability testing in Australia is conducted. They were also invited to visit several termite testing sites on what was dubbed ‘the Terminatour’.
You can read more about this meeting, IRG and future planned events by clicking here.
International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Division 5 Conference
Many delegates already in Queensland for IRG54 took the opportunity to access even more forest and wood science updates and information by staying on to attend the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Division 5 Conference. This event took place from Sunday 4 to Thursday 8 June at the Cairns Convention Centre.
This conference served to offer attendees a deeper understanding of how forests are grown to produce forest and wood products, and how these materials can most effectively be utilised by industry and local communities.
Through its role as part of the IUFRO committee the Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life offered its support, and the event was attended by Chris Lafferty, FWPA RD&E Manager and Jodie Mason, FWPA Forest Research Manager.
Recent WoodSolutions Sponsored events have included …
Green Building Council of Australia TRANSFORM conference
The fifth Green Building Council of Australia TRANSFORM conference – held on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 March at Hilton Sydney, turned out to be the biggest one yet, with people from all over the country joining in person and online.
In addition to the two official conference days, additional breakout sessions were also held between Friday 24 and Thursday 30 March.
TRANSFORM 2023 brought together the sustainability champions from the property sector and provided an opportunity to rethink the norm and push harder for impact at scale. The varied agenda covered topics including decarbonisation, nature and biodiversity, electrification, low-carbon materials, circularity and more.
Paolo Lavisci, WoodSolutions Program Development Manager Mid-Rise Advisory Program, joined a panel discussion during one of the breakout sessions, titled ‘What’s next in embodied carbon?’
More on TRANSFORM 2023, including opportunities to watch recordings of some of the sessions, can be found by clicking here.
Fire Australia 2023 Conference and Tradeshow
The largest and most influential fire protection event in the Southern Hemisphere took place at the International Convention Centre in Sydney from Wednesday 3 May.
More than 2,000 attendees heard from local and international leading industry experts, who offered the most up-to-date and inspiring content, and highlighted innovative solutions to Australia’s fire-related challenges.
Guests also explored the 80 plus exhibition stands showcasing some of the best fire protection solutions, products, and services available, connected with suppliers, and gained insights on the latest industry trends.
Boris Iskra, FWPA National Codes and Standard Manager was on-site to promote the organisation’s own initiatives in fire safety, in particular building safely with timber in fire-prone areas.
For more information on Fire Australia and its events, click here.
WoodSolutions Young Professionals Networking Event
On Thursday 2 March, The Occidental Hotel in Sydney played host to the latest WoodSolutions Young Professionals Networking Event. Attendees enjoyed casual presentations from local builders Brother Nature, engineering talks from TTW and Northrop and presentations from Brother Nature, XLam, TTW and Northrop.
WoodSolutions Walking Tour & Networking Event
On Thursday 18 May, attendees congregated in Sydney for the WoodSolutions Walking Tour & Networking Event. Starting in Walsh Bay, the group took to the streets to visit some of Sydney’s recent dynamic projects showcasing various applications of timber, followed by a WoodSolutions Networking Event at Northrop’s CBD offices.
