Since 1875, the Lehman Group has transformed raw wood into innovative products. Today, the most brilliant ideas are brought into reality with the technical planning, production and assembly from the craftspeople at Blumer Lehman. And today we’re lucky to be hearing from Katharina Lehman, the CEO of the Lehman Group about:

• How timber has evolved and developed in recent decades
• The craftsperson’s approach to freeform construction
• Using technology to drive innovation.

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

I recommend watching the WoodSolutions weekly webinars. Previous recordings can be found on the WoodSolutions website:

https://woodsolutions.com.au/

Check out Blumer Lehman’s brilliant projects here:

https://www.lehmann-gruppe.ch/en/holzbau.html

Venice is undergoing stresses due to tourism and sea-level rise. But with new stresses propose the opportunity to innovate and evolve design approaches. Tye Farrow, Partner at Farrow and Partners has proposed an innovative solution to transform and evolve the city of Venice through the new stresses. In this episode we discuss:

• What are the current threats to Venice
• The concept design, and how the philosophy of antifragility is applied to the project
• How timber is incorporated into the project

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

I recommend watching the WoodSolutions weekly webinars. Previous recordings can be found on the WoodSolutions website:

https://woodsolutions.com.au/

The Ballarat Gov Hub is a new $100 million multi use office development in the Northern end of Ballarat's central business district. This multi-story mass timber structure, is the largest timber built office building in Victoria to date, and achieve a Green Star 5 Star rating for the base building and the fit-out. Today we’re speaking with Jack Alam, Design Manager at Kane about:

• Timber first design principles applied for the project
• Why the prioritisation of certification is paramount
• Most important lessons from the project

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

I recommend watching the WoodSolutions weekly webinars. The webinar Jack mentioned can be found on the WoodSolutions YouTube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m3hok--Y18

More information about the project can be found here:

https://www.kane.com.au/project/ballarat-govhub

Evolution consists of trial and error over the space of millions of years. Over time, it’s safe to say nature typically lands on what works. And two ways to implement nature inspired design is through biophilia and biomimicry. In this episode, we’re lucky to be speaking with Bill Browning, world renowned on the research of these concepts. He was a co-founder of Terrapin Bright Green and founding member of the US Green Building Council. In this episode we discuss the principles, economics and design tips with biophilia and biomimicry.

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

I recommend watching the WoodSolutions weekly webinars. Previous recordings can be found on the WoodSolutions website:

https://woodsolutions.com.au/

Check out ‘Terrapin Bright Green’:

https://www.terrapinbrightgreen.com/

Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre, Mount Gambier’ includes outdoor aquatic facilities, a 1000 seat capacity performance space, six indoor multi-purpose courts and community function rooms. The aquatic center consists of glulam beams spanning 42m, the largest within the southern hemisphere. The construction team including DesignInc Adelaide as architects, Badge Constructions as Head Contractor, SCP Engineers as lead engineer and Hess Timber as the glulam supplier. In this episode we’re lucky to be speaking with Ben Luppino from DesignInc Adelaide and Tyson Infanti from Hess about:

• Why timber was chosen for the project
• Durability considerations for maximising service life of the building
• Logistics and freight when transporting 42m beams from overseas into Australia

I recommend watching the WoodSolutions weekly webinars. Previous recordings can be found on the WoodSolutions website:

https://woodsolutions.com.au/

As computing power increases, designers are able to create unprecedented structures with unlocked creativity and productivity. In this episode, we’re lucky to be speaking with David Benjamin, a Director of AEC Industry Futures at Autodesk Research and Founder of The Living. In this episode we discuss:

• The concept of, how to best utilise generative design procedures
• The range of design goals that can be optimised for with powerful computing
• The convergence with other technologies for building information modelling

This was a forward thinking conversation which I’m sure you will enjoy.

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

I recommend watching the WoodSolutions weekly webinars. Previous recordings can be found on the WoodSolutions website:

Check out ‘The Living’:

http://www.thelivingnewyork.com/

Canadian architecture and multi-disciplinary practice Dialog has designed a hybrid mass timber tower prototype that promises to revolutionise tall buildings as we know them. The design is of a hybrid timber towers of up to 105 storeys of zero carbon, addressing climate change. Today we’re speaking with Craig Applegath, Partner Architect at Dialog about:

• The concept design for the 105 storey sky scraper
• Solving both operational and embodied energy challenges with new technologies and design approaches
• Leading technologies for moving to zero carbon

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

Murray Grove is the first tall urban housing project to be constructed entirely from pre-fabricated solid timber, from the load bearing walls and floor slabs to the stair and lift cores. The project came in cost effective and sequestered carbon rather than emitting it, opening a new door to sustainable construction. Andrew Waugh, the Foudner of Waugh Thistleton Architects was the lead pioneer in unlocking this new door to the entirely new industry that is mass timber construction today. We spoke with Andrew Waugh on Season 1 of the podcast, and it is a privilege to circle back and speak to him again. In this episode we discuss:

• What has happened since the Stadthaus (also known as Murray Grove) and today
• Learn about a new evolution in architectural design, with a recent project 6 Orsman Road
• And where the puck is moving with digital design, prefabrication and assembly.

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

Collectively we all had a year like no other in 2020. The challenges we faced were unprecedented but with them come new trends and new opportunities. And After predictions of Armageddon, the residential construction sector is going through an unexpected boom. we’re speaking with Adrian Hondros, the CEO of Porter Davis about:

• Making sense of 2020 and what it means for our future
• The future of sustainability, digital and prefabrication in residential construction
• Advice for professionals to be relevant in a changing future.

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications

To begin Season 4, we’re going to be doing a best of series for the next 4 weeks. Today, we’ll be looking at the best moments in Timber Talks so far, on the topics of design. In this episode you’ll hear from:

• Jennifer Cover CEO at Woodworks USA on 7 advantages to tap into for timber
• Nick Milestone Chairman at Trada on the importance of timber first design
• Emma Russell, Senior Engineer at WSP on building extensions
• Andy Buchanan on use of post tensioned building systems
• Hans Blaas Professor of Timber Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Timber Technologies on connection design fundamentals
• Rob Dixon Senior Fire Engineer at ARUP on things to consider for exposed timber
• Karim Khalifa Director at Sidewalk Labs on innovative fire solutions
• Greg Nolan Director at Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood at UTAS on durability of wood
• Shaun Walsh President at AILA on external use of timber
• Jesse Clarke Building Science Manager at Pro Clima Aus on designing for building physics
• Amanda Robinson CEO at Marshall Day Acoustics
• Ryan Miller Senior Associate at Buehler about designing for vertical movement

If you want to learn more about designing or building with timber, I recommend you go to the WoodSolutions Website and download the Technical Design Guides:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/publications