Timber in Design & Construction
Mr Gregory Nolan is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW), an industry funded, strategic research facility of the School of Architecture & Design. The Unit was established to pursue the aim of fostering the use of timber as a building material that is efficient, economic, environmentally sustainable and socially responsible.
To achieve this, the Centre's multi disciplinary team of architects, engineers and computer specialists work closely with the building design professions throughout Australia and the Tasmanian & Australia timber industry.
The Centre conducts a wide range of educational, research, testing and consultant activities including:
research into all aspects of the use of timber in building;
preparation of high quality educational and technical publications for practicing building design professionals and the general public, in hardcopy and on the Internet;
designing & introducing electronic commerce techniques in the timber production industries
providing technical advice on the use of timber in building, on the phone, by e-mail and on the Internet.
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