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.