The conference, designed to “educate, inspire and empower architects, engineers, suppliers and clients to design and build better timber buildings” was a follow up to last year’s successful event, which, according to TRADA chairman Nick Milestone “created more attention than we thought”.
This year’s conference had a strong focus on engineered wood products, particularly cross-laminated timber (CLT) and LVL and speakers represented a broad cross section of the construction industry, from client to manufacturer.
Topics covered included investigating moisture ingress in CLT, a look at Heatherwick Studio’s Maggie’s Centre in Leeds, updates to TRADA’s Eurocode 5 manual and the structural fire safety design of mass timber buildings.
A full report on the conference will appear in the next issue of TTJ.
