Jim Burgess
Forest Resources Manager, Timber Queensland
Jim Burgess is a Victorian Forester who has been working in Queensland since 1995. He is currently Forest Resources Manager with Timber Queensland, where he works at a broad policy level towards securing a sustainable future timber resource for the Queensland industry.
Hamish Crawford
Cailum Pty Ltd
Hamish is a forest economist with over 24 years experience in forestry and natural resources management. His areas of expertise include sustainable forestry certification, forest financial and woodflow modelling, carbon sequestration accounting and forest policy development.
Since forming Cailum Pty Ltd in 2002, Hamish has undertaken over 80 consultancy projects for both government and corporate clients. He is also the Australian representative for Soil Association Woodmark (FSC certification body) and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Fabiano Ximenes
NSW Dept. of Primary Industries
Fabiano has a bachelor in Forestry from Brazil (University of Brasília) and obtained a Master in Wood Science at the Australian National University. Fabiano is a Research Officer with the NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI), and is the current leader of the “Greenhouse Footprint of Wood Products” Project, jointly funded by the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation and the NSW DPI. Prior to this project, Fabiano was the leader of the "Carbon in Wood Products" Project from the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting.
Nick Livanes
Executive Officer, Frame & Truss Manufacturers Association of Australia
Nick is a structural engineer with extensive experience in commercial building design and construction, particularly in precast and post-tensioned concrete. For the last 12 years Nick has held market development roles with the timber industry particularly focusing on the introduction of new grades, timber technology in multi-residential design and thermal performance. Nick is currently the Executive Officer for the Frame & Truss Manufacturers Association of Australia.
Associate Professor Gregory Nolan M.Arch B.Arch(Hons) B.Sc(Arch)
Director, Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood, School of Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania
Gregory Nolan is a registered Architect and Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania’s School of Architecture. In addition to teaching, Greg is also Director of the School’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood, a multi-disciplinary team of practitioners and researchers working with Australia's timber industry and the design and construction professions. Greg is active in research into timber and its use in building in Australia; hardwood production and drying; using Australia's hardwood plantation, and the thermal performance of timber buildings.
Michael Kennedy
Kennedys Timber
Michael Kennedy started his timber recycling business in 1995 in Northern New South Wales. The business has now grown to be one of the largest recycled timber operators in Australia, recently opening a world class Resource Recovery Centre and Timber processing facility on a 48,000 square metre purpose built site at Narangba. Kennedy Timbers has supplied recycled timber for many large commercial projects including Suncorp Stadium, Gallery of Modern Art, Cockle Wharf Precinct, Federation Square and the Old Parliament House Canberra.
Michael Hogg
Donovan Hill Architects
Donovan Hill is the Brisbane based practice directed by Brian Donovan and Timothy Hill. They established the firm as recent graduates from the University of Queensland in 1992, where they are now Adjunct Professors. After developing ‘Strategies for Delivering Places that Enable Events’, Donovan and Hill were awarded a Masters of Architecture in 2005 at RMIT.
The office functions with two other partners and a core team of 25. The office’s output is deliberately unspecialised, ranging through furniture commissions, the Brisbane City Centre Draft Master Plan, landscapes, office towers and in a continuous stream over 15 years…houses. Recently completed projects include the redevelopment of the State Library of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation Centre, conversion of one of inner Brisbane’s remaining woolstore buildings to 120 apartments, and a house with an ecosystem as a roof.
Michael has been with the firm since 1995 and has been responsible for many of the office’s experiments with timber, both the successful and the failed ones. His most epic achievement is hand drawing over seven hundred A3’s for the C House, which included virtually every drawing of virtually every piece of timber in the project.
Jim Gall B.Arch (Hons1) QUT, B.Sc. (Hons) Environmental Studies
Gall & Medek Architects Pty Ltd
Jim is a Adjunct professor at QUT .
His and Bruce Medek’s practice has been awarded for a wide range of project types because of a focus on the experiential consequences of an ecological and sustaining approach to the design of places. His aesthetic values lie in the poetry of the ordinary, simple, humble and honest.
Jim has worked in various capacities, in Environmental Consulting, Social Security, Music, Architecture and Teaching and has researched and written about the design process.
Colin Mackenzie
Technical Manager for Timber Queensland.
Colin MacKenzie has been active in all facets of timber engineering and design for the past 30 years. Areas of special interest include domestic engineering, durability design and the development of Australian Standards and Building Codes for the benefit of timber construction. He has also participated in many of industries timber grading and in-grade testing programs.
Colin is an active member of a number of Australian Standards Committees including the Timber Engineering Code, the Structural Timbers Committee and the Timber Framing Committee. As well as the SAA committees, Colin represents Australia on the ISO TC 165 Timber Structures Committee.
Tim Rossiter
Chief Engineer, MiTek
Tim Rossiter has over 20 years experience in timber engineering and software development with Stanley-Bostitch and Gang-Nail. He has served on various committees with Standards Australia and NSW Workcover. He is presently the New Products Manager and Chief Engineer for MiTek Australia in NSW and WA.
Simon Dorries
General Manager, Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia (EWPAA)
Simon is the General Manager of the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia (EWPAA). The EWPAA is a manufacturer’s association representing plywood, laminated veneer lumber and other glued structural wood product manufacturers with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
Simon holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and has worked at the EWPAA for over 20 years. His extensive experience has included product testing and assessment, research and development, development of certification systems for Engineered Wood Products and extensive experience in the development of training programs and product standards.
