Project

Wood Composite Load Bearing Solutions

Project Under Development

This project aims to facilitate the introduction of Engineered Wood Products (EWP) to concrete and/or steel constructions, with details developed in collaboration with builders, architects, engineers and researchers as an incremental step of innovation that increases the use of timber in our commercial buildings and decarbonises our structures. It aims at understanding which type of hybrid system {e.g., vertical or horizontal solutions, connections} and material {e.g., Steel/Timber, Concrete/Timber and Timber/Timber} systems is more relevant to and can be commonly adopted by the Australian industry.

The developed system

  1. is to be buildable,
  2. cost-effective,
  3. sustainable,
  4. structurally perform,
  5. fire safe,
  6. can be fast erected and
  7. comply in terms of acoustic and vibration.

There is currently no such widely adopted solution in Australia and are still questions to answer.

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Objectives/Deliverables

  • A literature review on different hybrid systems currently used and proposed systems - led by academia
  • Map different hybrid solutions; Decide on the more relevant and beneficial hybrid solution to the Australian industry; Come up with a design of the solution system. - led by industry
  • Multi-objective optimisation of the new system - led by academia
  • Testing of the new and optimised system - led by academia
  • Dissemination of the outcomes through seminars to the building industry - all partners

Project Leader/s

Benoit Gilbert

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

Griffith University / Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

Hong Guan

Node Leader - Performance of Building Components; Executive Board Member

Griffith University


Project Staff

Research Assistant

Research Assistant Opportunity

HDR Candidate

Higher Degrees by Research Scholarship Opportunity


Project Investigators

Benoit Gilbert

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

Griffith University / Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

Hong Guan

Node Leader - Performance of Building Components; Executive Board Member

Griffith University

Hassan Karampour

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

Griffith University

Cristian Maluk

Node Leader - Performance of Building Components; Project Leader

The University of Queensland / Semper, UK

Adam Faircloth

Partner Investigator

Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

Hamid Valipour

Chief Investigator

University of New South Wales

Mahmud Ashraf

Chief Investigator

Deakin University

Minghao Li

Partner Investigator

The University of British Columbia

Frank Lam

Partner Investigator

The University of British Columbia

Cristiano Loss

Partner Investigator

The University of British Columbia

Hyungsuk (Thomas) Lim

Partner Investigator

University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ

Toby Hodsdon

Partner Investigator; Steering Group Committee Chair

Arup

Ralph Belperio

Partner Investigator; Executive Board Member

Aurecon

Tim Butler

Partner Investigator

Lendlease

Alex Zecevic

Partner Investigator

TTW


Lead Project Partner Organisation


Project Partners