Australia, along with many other countries around the world, is currently experiencing, during this COVID pandemic period, an unexpected and unprecedentedly high level of residential building activity which is causing shortfalls in supply across a wide range of building products. Demand for structural timber framing products is booming, and with supply shortfalls (in the short-term at least), as designers, fabricators, and builders, we all need to be working smarter, by optimising the use of what products we have both through basic design and new innovation.
In this webinar two of Australia’s leading timber engineers will discuss a wide range of practical optimisation options, including: how most economically to design your structural timber framing in residential homes, what the frame & truss fabricators are doing to optimise product use, the reintroduction of new nail-plated structural beam and stud products, as well as a range of new engineered/manufactured wood products and systems that are available.
SPEAKERS
Ian Hayward, Engineering Manager ANZ @ITW Construction Asia Pacific – Residential
Ian Hayward is the Engineering Manager ANZ, at ITW Construction Asia Pacific – Residential. Prior to this he spent 19 years as a Structural Engineer with Pryda Australia involved in the progression of digitisation of frame and truss design. Ian is actively involved with the Pryda Build software, tweaking software functions and developing specification briefs to help designers do their jobs more efficiently.
George Dolezal, Structural Design Engineer @Meyer Timber
George has over 22 years’ experience in structural timber design, commencing as a design engineer at Pryda, followed by Market Engineer at Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts and the last eight years at Meyer TImber. George has developed a number of wood-based products for the Australian residential market including domestic portal frame systems for housing.