News Filter news by category Select multiple categories to view cross-referenced news. Hub NewsMedia Releases Found 23 Results 19Dec Global Collaboration on Timber Innovation: Enhancing Urban Resilience Through Wood In May 2023, the University of Queensland hosted a local workshop focused on the theme “Urban Transition with Wood for Enhanced Resilience of Cities and Forests.” The event explored how timber can ... READ 10Dec ARC Advance Timber Hub Investigators Pioneer Disaster-Proof Timber-Cardboard Housing, Tackling Climate Crisis, and Reducing Bio Waste in NSW Researchers find a new way to create higher-value timber products from Northern NSW’s State Forests. Led by Mahmoud Abu-Saleem, Andrew Rose from Southern Cross University and ARC Advance Timber ... READ 27Nov Hub CI completes Gottstein International Fellowship on Moisture Management in Mass Timber Buildings ARC Advance Timber Hub Chief Investigator, Dr. Maryam Shirmohammadi, has recently completed an international fellowship study tour across Europe and Singapore, funded by the Gottstein Trust, where she ... READ 15Nov WCTE 2025 Draft Technical Program The WCTE 2025 Organising Committee are pleased to advise that the WCTE 2025 Draft Program is now available to view on the website WCTE 2025 – Key Dates & Program. The program includes deta ... READ 01Oct Driving Research Excellence The ARC Advance Timber Hub, a key player in the sustainable timber and forestry research sector, is proud to announce its inclusion in the Queensland Science Capability Directory. This listing marks a ... READ 19Sep Exploring Timber’s Future: From Forest to Fibre – Sustainable Innovation in Action Coinciding with a new exhibition at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery “Forest to Fibre: FCRC Hardwood Plantation (21 Sept to 17 Nov 2024)”, on the 2nd of October, the Harvey Bay Regional Gallery will be ... READ 27Jun Queensland Sustainable Timber Industry Framework The QLD Government announced a $200m Queensland Sustainable Timber Industry Framework on the 26 June 2024 including release of the terms of reference. The Framework will be developed in partnership wi ... READ 15May Professor Keith Crews: My Gottstein Fellowship Story WoodCentral has published an article highlighting the importance of the Gottstein Trust in their focus on Professor Keith Crews, ARC Advance Timber Hub Director, who was awarded a Gottstein Trust Fell ... READ 02May Podcast – Timber Efficiency Research with Associate Professor Joe Gattas ARC Advance Timber Hub Theme & Node Leader, Associate Professor Joe Gattas, at The University of Queensland’s School of Civil Engineering, was part of a recent episode of Pryda Pod. Joe wa ... READ 29Apr The University of Queensland and CENAMAD join in to boost wood construction Professor Keith Crews, Director of the ARC Advance Timber Hub along with Hub Chief Investigators, Associate Professor Joe Gattas and Kim Baber visited Chile in April, Santiago and Concepción, to lear ... READ 28Mar Call for Abstracts – World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025 WCTE 2025 Call for Abstracts – due 30 June 2024 The World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2025) is being held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 22nd June to 26th June 2025. The WC ... READ 26Feb Sustainable Timber Construction Seminar – Presentation Videos On the 6 February 2024 at The University of Queensland (UQ) an in-person seminar was hosted by ASCE Australia Section and UQ School of Civil Engineering. This in-person event brought together experts ... READ 15Feb Aurecon commits to research hub LAST week’s issue of Timber&Forestry eNews Issue 789, headlined the opening of ARC Advance Timber Hub. This week’s issue 790 has highlighted one of the Hub’s key supporters Aurec ... READ 08Feb New timber hub at UQ already delivering results The ARC Advance Timber Hub launch has made the cover page of this week’s issues of Timber&Forestry eNews – Issue 789. See Cover Story, page 3. Timber&Forestry eNews Issue 789 ... READ 02Feb ARC Advance Timber Hub Launch Presentation – Professor Keith Crews The Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia’s Future Built Environment (ARC Advance Timber Hub) was officially launched at The University of Queensland on Wedn ... READ 31Jan Timber efficiencies could help ease nation’s housing crisis University of Queensland researchers have found improving timber production efficiencies by just 5% could unlock supply for an extra 8,000 homes to be built in Australia each year. Please see UQ News ... READ 31Jan ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia’s Future Built Environment launched by Senator the Hon Anthony Chisholm The University of Queensland leads $16.5 million research hub focused on advancing sustainable timber in Australia’s future built environment. For decades, gleaming towers of steel and concrete have ... READ 20Dec Call for Abstracts – World Conference on Timber Engineering The World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025 has recently announced a Call for Abstracts. The conference committee invites authors to submit two-page abstracts/ mini papers by 30 April 2024. The Un ... READ 07Dec Australian Government signs up to increase the use of timber in buildings by 2030 The Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership Coalition on Greening Construction with Sustainable Wood announced today that at COP28, in Dubai, the Australian Government, with 16 other countries committe ... READ 22Nov ARC Advance Timber Hub Plots Exciting Future for Australian Industry The ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia’s Future Built Environment (ARC Advance Timber Hub) is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Hub which was fund ... READ 24Aug Timber 2032 Forum – Going for Gold on National Forestry Day Queensland Government officials and timber industry representatives met at The University of Queensland on the 22 August 2023 “National Forestry Day” to discuss utilising mass timber construction ... READ 03Aug WoodSolutions Technical Guide #39 on Robustness The ARC Advance Timber Hub is pleased to advise that the updated WoodSolutions Technical guide #39 on Robustness has been published (July 2023) following the work performed by research project “Prog ... READ 14Jul New ARC Research Hub to “Advance Timber for Australia’s Future Built Environment” On July 13, 2022, the Hon Jason Clare MP and Australian Research Council (ARC) announced a grant of $3 million in research and development (R&D) funding to establish the ARC industrial Transformat ... READ
