WoodSolutions and Timber Queensland present: Design, Engineer & Build: Achieving Compliance and Performance in Lightweight Timber Frames

Earn CPD points at this practical seminar on compliance, performance, moisture risk and the future of lightweight timber framing.

Hosted by Timber Queensland, this event delivers clear, evidence-based guidance for builders, designers, engineers and certifiers working on real projects.

Lightweight timber framing remains the backbone of Australia’s housing sector - but standards, certification and compliance expectations are evolving. This seminar addresses what’s changing and what it means in practice.

Design, Engineer & Build: Achieving Compliance and Performance in Lightweight Timber Frames focuses on what works on site - from connectors and framing limits to moisture design, systemised construction, workforce considerations and LVL compliance. It also looks ahead, with insights from the Future Framing Initiative on what industry should prepare for next.

Hear from experts working directly across standards, projects and compliance, and gain practical insights you can apply immediately.

PROGAM

2.00pm - 2.30pm

Registration, Tea & Coffee

Exhibitor Room Open

2.30pm - 2.40pm

Welcome & Policy Update regarding Queensland Future Timber Plan

Mick Stephens, CEO, Timber Queensland

2.40pm - 3.00pm

Uses and limitations of traditional lightweight, timber connectors - do’s and don’ts for timber connections

Matt Smith, Technical Consultant, Timber Queensland

3.00pm - 3.25pm

PANEL DISCUSSION

Productivity Comes from People: Materials, Methods and the People Behind the Build

This panel will explore whether material and system choices influence not only compliance and performance, but also the experience of the people delivering projects on site — at a time when labour remains one of the industry’s most constrained resources.

Facilitator: Christine Briggs. Timber Framing Campaign Manager, FWPA

Panelists:

David Leete, Senior Building Services Advisor, Master Builders Queensland

Colin Taverner, Technical Sales & Business Development, Meyer Timber / Licensed Builder

Craig Klinge, Engineer, MiTek

Additional construction industry panelists to be announced.

3.25pm - 3.45pm

Eliminate moisture & condensation risks: designing high‑performance timber frames for humid climates

Nick Hewson, Director, Arboralis

3.35pm Afternoon Tea

4.00pm - 4.15pm

The Future Framing Initiative: What’s Changing and What Industry Should Prepare for Now

David Zhang, Chief Engineer, Multinail & Committee Member Future Framing Initiative

4.15pm - 4.40pm

CASE STUDY

From Framing to Systems – Delivering Housing with a Timber Kit‑of‑Parts Model

Invited speaker: Peter Morrison, CEO, Green Timber Technology

4.40pm - 5.00pm

Using LVL in Timber Framing: Compliance, Certification and Avoiding Non‑Conforming Product

Invited speaker: Phil Irving, General Manager QLD, Tillings

5.00pm - 6.00pm

Networking function