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The Australian Timber Design Awards are a national annual competition to promote and encourage outstanding timber design in the built environment. Now in their thirteenth year, the Awards are distinguished by a proud heritage of innovation and achievement.

This is a 90% Draft of the full version, scheduled for release on February 28th 2014.

Will Henley in the UK Guardian looks at an international range of eco houses and wonders whether they will ever be mainstream.

The Australian Timber Design Awards have been honouring excellence in timber design for fourteen years. Entry is open to architects, builders, designers, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects. Categories cover all major applications, small budget projects, sustainability, a People's Choice Award and a Rising Star Award.

The Australian Timber Design Awards are a national competition to promote and encourage outstanding timber design in the built environment professions. Now in their thirteenth year, the Awards are distinguished by a proud heritage of innovation and achievement.

This free seminar with presentations from industry experts will explore how timber may be better used in residential buildings. Canberra 4-9-13, Paramatta 5-9-13

The inaugural regional conference, hosted by the Australian Institute of Architects Queensland chapter, will extend the ground covered by the 2012 National Architecture Conference - Experience by focusing upon the unique opportunities commonly available to architects practising regionally, responding to the unique ‘Spirit of Place’. The conference will be the first of a biennial program of Queensland Regional Architecture Conferences, providing considerable opportunities for the Institute’s regional members.

The Fire Safety Solutions Using Timber presentation is part of the AIA National Seminar Series, a selection of high-quality seminars delivered across Australia as part of the Institute's continuing professional development (CPD) program.

In Archi : talk 2: architects Billie Faircloth, Research Director, KieranTimberlake and Professor Robert Morris-Nunn, circa architecture, discuss the role of materials and timber in their work and more.

With WikiHouse, open source comes to design and construction. In the IT community the open source model has been successful in many areas - for example, the Linux operating system and hundreds of widely used software applications.

How often do you get the opportunity to learn about some of the cutting edge software and hardware in timber fabrication - and then have the chance to design and build a structure actually using it? With the Spring 2013 Digital Fabrication with Timber Studio (DFTS) course you can broaden your skills and professional network as you become informed and inspired to do more with timber technology.

Canadian architect Michael Green has twice visited Australia to speak at WoodSolutions events. Here, in a 12 minute presentation delivered at TED he argues the case for using more wood in our built environment.

The Australian Institute of Architects' National Seminar Series is an opportunity for people in cities and major regional centres - and now online too - to maintain the currency of their information on popular topics. 2 formal Refuel CPD points are available to attendees.

In Australia and internationally, the idea of moving construction processes from the unpredictabilities of a building site to a factory floor is gaining traction. German architect Arthur Schankula has developed two innovative solutions.

Occasionally WoodSolutions discovers articles in other places that we think are relevant and interesting to you - our visitors. If possible, we'll give you some information about it and a link to find out more. If you know of something you think we should feature - that aligns with our primary role of promoting the use of responsibly sourced wood in design and construction - please contact us through the link at the base of this page.

WoodSolutions Technical Design Guides are written by specialists to provide architects, building designers and engineers with detailed information to enable them to accurately design and specify the use of wood and wood products to the National Construction Code (NCC).

Architects - or building designers - and engineers are often the two drivers of material specification in small residential building projects (material specifications in large multiresidential and commercial projects are usually more complex). Here, Nicolas Pratt presents an architect's perspective.

WOOD: art design architecture, the exhibition has been co-curated by Brian Parkes and Elliat Rich, supported by the Commonwealth Government's Contemporary Touring Initiative and is principally sponsored by Wood. Naturally Better.™

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The Building Designers Association of Victoria is an industry body which acts for building design professionals. It is managed by a committee of volunteers from amongst the membership, whose objective is to advance the profession of building design, by offering cost-effective, quality, membership services and benefits. The Association has more than 1,900 members (at March 2013).

Here's a research report that outlines the design of a 42 storey timber tower, using a system described as the “Concrete Jointed Timber Frame. This free download 72 page document is recommended reading for anyone interested in more sustainable tall structures.

WoodSolutions will be at designEX in Melbourne - the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre - from Thursday May 30th to Saturday June 1st. WoodSolutions is also a sponsor of the co-located 2013 Australian Institute of Architects National Conference.

As part of keeping the WoodSolutions website interesting, informative and inspirational, we'll be running a series of occasional blog posts from people working with timber. In this blog, Brisbane engineer Amy Cook talks about designing with timber. If you're interested in writing a blog post for WoodSolutions, please contact us.

Architects Andrew Waugh and Michael Green, both of whom have been keynote speakers at WoodSolutions Seminars, discuss very tall timber buildings.