Resilient Timber Homes Program News Today

“To solve this shortage, we need to build houses faster – in the order of 200,000 per year – and more efficiently, just to keep up with demand from the population that is surging at historically high levels,” says Paolo Lavisci, Manager of the Resilient Timber Homes Program at Woodsolutions, an independent provider of timber industry-related information.

Apart from being an author of a widely read book on the design of timber structures and a founder of structural engineering software, Paolo Lavisci is also a Program Manager of WoodSolutions’ Resilient Timber Homes. Here, he talks about the organisations sustainability aspirations and reveals why his date of birth makes him a natural climate optimist.

Launched by WoodSolutions, the competition seeks new home designs that best showcase the advantages of building with timber, particularly, the material’s ability to withstand increasingly adverse weather events. Part of the Resilient Timber Homes Program that supports the construction of timber homes designed with a resilience-focused Code+ approach across Australia, the competition offers a total prize pool of $100,000.

WoodSolutions invites Australian designers to develop ‘Code+’ homes with timber structures, designed to withstand the impacts of a changing climate.