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Industry Consultant Jim Houghton from Hire Thinking has undertaken analysis on the Victorian Building Authority Permit data to make market share comparisons on building material permit d…
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Timber Construction and Building Height Planning Controls – The unintended consequences of the Planning System. For the property development industry, the benefits of using timber build…
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The aim of this project was to validate the assumption used within the Australian Standard AS1720.1 for calculating compression perpendicular to grain for common timber species and develo…
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This research presents the global warming potential (GWP) from ‘cradle to construction site gate’ for both a hypothetical office building and apartment building, located in New South Wale…
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This study compares the life cycle environmental impacts of two multilevel residential buildings built in Australia. The first building (‘Study building’) incorporated an innovative l…
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Opportunities for using western red cedar on the exterior of buildings in bushfire-prone areas are limited by the requirements of Australian Standard (AS) 3959 Construction of buildings i…
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Presented by Greg Foliente, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Wednesday 5th March, 2014. With the global megatrends and megashocks that are changing the world as a backdrop, examples of how leadin…
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These manuals are backing document to the Timber Service Life design guide that is available on WoodSolutions, click here to view. The vision for developing durability design procedures fo…