Hans Blass is a professor of timber engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and  is world reknowned on his work into innovative and reliable structural timber connections. He is the author of the book 'Timber Engineering - Principles for Design' and previous winner of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, for significant contribution to forestry and forest industries. He came to Australia for the Pacifc Timber Engineering Conference, PTEC, where I was lucky to catch him and talk to him about connections, sustainability and a taste for how timber is developing in Germany. As we were speaking at the conference, you're going to hear a bit of ambient noise.

 

The WS Technical Design Guide can be found here:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/mid-rise-timber-buildings-design-guides

 

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