The WoodSolutions seminar will deliver a practical learning experience, which will provide participants with an understanding of the recent National Construction Code (NCC) changes.
The changes create Deemed-to-Satisfy solutions to build massive timber and timber framed Class 2 (apartments), Class 3 (hotels) and Class 5 (office) buildings, up to an effective height of 25m resulting in cost effective and environmentally friendlier mid-rise buildings.
The provisions address both traditional ‘timber-frame’ and new ‘massive timber’ systems such as cross laminated timber (CLT) with the use of appropriate layers of fire-resistant plasterboard (i.e. fire-protected timber) and the use of NCC compliant fire sprinkler systems.
With mid-rise timber construction design, fire and sound are two of the major considerations: appropriate fire-resisting construction is critical to providing acceptable levels of fire safety, whilst sound or acoustic performance is essential because of its daily impact on inhabitant amenity and quality of life.
Where: 22 Parkland Road, Osborne Park
When: 1 July, 9.00am – 11.00am
Register: wa_training@hia.com.au
Contact: 1300 650 620
Llimited seats are available
About the presenter – Assoc. Prof. Geoff Boughton
Geoff Boughton is Director of TimberED Services, a company that provides structural consultancy services to the Australian building industry. He has previously held an academic role at Curtin University, has a PhD in structural engineering and is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Engineering, James Cook University.
Geoff is a committee member of the Panel of Structural Engineers in WA. He also serves on a number of Australian timber standards committees including TM10 – Timber Design, as well as ISO Committee TC165 – Structural Timber. Geoff is the author of HB108 – Timber Design Handbook and has developed teaching resources for lecturers at Australian universities and has delivered several presentations at IEAust, AIA and AIBS events.
Geoff is also an adjunct associate professor in the School of Engineering, James Cook University and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers and a member of both the Australasian Wind Engineering Society and the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society. Geoff has been involved in teams that have investigated damage to buildings following extreme wind events including tropical cyclones and severe storms in the south west of WA.