Description:
Bushfires, floods, cyclones, and storms, along with increasing sea levels and earthquakes, all threaten our landscapes, environments, communities, and buildings. These severe natural hazards are increasing in both frequency and intensity, causing destruction, and huge costs for response, relief, reconstruction, and rehabilitation efforts. Consequently, there is growing interest globally, and in Australia, for action to improve ‘Resilience’ and adaptation to our changing climate.
Resilient Timber Home construction, if done correctly, is an efficient and sustainable solution to the challenges caused by our rapidly changing climate. In this webinar, Paolo Lavisci, Resilient Timber Homes Program Manager explores how timber homes can be, and are already being designed and built, with a resilience-focused approach to resist bushfire, floods and cyclones, or whatever mother-nature throws at us.
Paolo will also share news of an exciting new Resilient Timber Homes Design Competition launched by WoodSolutions and supporting partners (https://resilienttimberdesign.com.au/) to investigate new and innovative design concepts that can achieve “Code+” performances, provide better safety and wellness for their occupants, as well as increased value for the investors and the whole community.
Speaker:
Paolo Lavisci - Program Manager of Resilient Timber Homes
Paolo’s extensive experience with Engineered Wood Products encompasses both hands-on and advisory roles in the design and construction of timber structures, project management, research and product development, teaching and training.
With a Forestry degree in Florence (Italy) and a PhD in Industrial Technologies, Wood at ENSTIB/Université de Nancy (France), Paolo worked in the industry for 7 years before starting an independent timber consulting and engineering practice. Among the many projects with which he has been involved are the design and specification of multi-storey timber buildings (5, 7, 9 and 12 storeys), developing new models for prefabricated homes and transportable units and the design for cross laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plants. He also authored a widely used book on the design of timber structures and funded the development of specific structural engineering software.
James McIntosh - Sedgwick: Senior Manager - Building Consultancy Division
James’ experience is in construction where he spent the first 12 years of his career before transitioning to Building Consultancy in 2008. He has specialised in forensic Building Consultancy in various fields including Insurance and Strata defects, which required him to develop specialised teams of Building consultants, Engineers, Project Managers, and Quantity Surveyors around Australia. James’ team perform damage assessment and cost services for insurance losses including flood, fire and wind events providing significant experience in determining repair methodologies for properties to ensure building code compliance and upgrades.
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