MECLA Working
Group 5f - Engineered Timber
Working Group 5f – Engineered Timber (WG5f) had their inaugural meeting at the end of 2022, and is dedicated to mapping pathways for further uptake of engineered timber in the construction industry. This includes addressing challenges around insurance and financing, regulations and politics, and technical.
The chair and co-chairs of WG5f are Timothy Devlin, Timber Structures Consultant at THECA and Hamid Valipour, Professor at UNSW.
MECLA Timber Spotlights
WG5f have run a series of Spotlight events centres on timber use and innovation in the timber industry to drive emissions reductions in the built environment. Timber is complex product, and innovation in the industry is offering up new solutions for constructors to pursue in realising a lower carbon asset. You can learn more about these events below.
August 2024 [Spotlight]
Manufacturing, design, and work with wood continues to develop in Australia alongside methods in forest management & regeneration.
November 2023 [Spotlight]
There are a lot of misperceptions around timber use and fire risk. MECLA members dispell myths and educate on use cases for timber.
MECLA Timber Deep Dive
MECLA WG5f has also organised a tour of the Hyne and XLAM manufacturing facilities to better understand supply chains in timber. To fully understand how the construction ecosystem can drive decarbonisation, it is important for the demand side to develop in-depth understanding of the complexities in different value chains. MECLA Deep Dives are the way MECLA helps facilitate these important conversations.
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