Project

How People Respond to Timber-Rich Environment?

Project Description

This project aims to increase understanding of how design choices can improve the occupant outcomes from visible timber in indoor environments. This project expects to review existing knowledge, standardise protocols, and create new knowledge related to occupant effects of timber-rich environments. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced understanding of how design elements in indoor environments with visible timber impacts occupants and refined methods and techniques for measuring that impact. This should generate benefits to both industry and scholarship, providing industry partners with nuanced knowledge on the optimal use of timber in interior environments and researchers new directions for interdisciplinary research including robust post-occupancy assessment strategies focused on design.

Targeted industry focused outcomes

The project intends to provide industry partners with increased nuance in understanding the use of timber in interior environments, which will allow industry partners to incorporate positive messages in their marketing and messaging. This will increase specific knowledge about individual buildings, useful to industry partners into the future. Our intention is to generate industry-friendly communication assets that can be useful in the creation of marketing or messaging materials.

Targeted industry focused outcomes include:

  • Presentation on design for positive occupant outcomes
  • Report with design elements maximising occupant outcomes summarized for use in marketing materials
  • Report on highlights of targeted outcomes compared to other environments for use in marketing materials

Impact will be measured by:

  • Increase in the knowledge of industry partners about how individual buildings are performing with regards to design for maximising positive outcomes
  • Increase in knowledge about how to design for maximising the benefits of wood for occupants

Objectives/Deliverables

  • Complete a robust literature review on existing scholarly knowledge (Phase 1)
  • Gather data from Hub partner building tenants (Phase 2)
  • Conduct original research beyond industry partners to advance knowledge in how timber-rich indoor environments impacts how people feel, think, and behave (Phase 3)

Project Leader/s

Georgia Lindsay

Chief Investigator

University of Tasmania


Project Staff

Research Assistant

Research Assistant Opportunity


Project Investigators

Georgia Lindsay

Chief Investigator

University of Tasmania

Simon Dorries

Partner Investigator

Responsible wood

Nik Steffens

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

The University of Queensland

Stacey Parker

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

The University of Queensland

Lily Tandeani

Partner Investigator

Tzannes Associates

Marc Micuta

Affiliate Investigator

Tzannes


Lead Project Partner Organisation


Project Partners