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 working group is currently split into three subgroups: insurance and regulatory, supply chain, and financial & logistics. The chair and co-chair of WG5f is Stephen Simpson, Project Design Management, Manager Officer & Mixed Use at Mirvac and Hamid Valipour, Professor at UNSW.
"The mission I see for the group is to finally break down the barriers to source, procure and secure built form with the product that most naturally aligns itself with the environment: timber, the preferred embodied carbon alternative."
Stephen Simpson
Project Design Management, Manager Officer & Mixed Use Residential at Mirvac
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