Last Sunday, Dr Cristian Maluk appeared in a Radio interview for ABC’s radio show, Future Tense. You can can see an article on the interview here, and the full interview podcast here. In relation to the Australian Research Council-funded Future Timber Hub, opened … Continue reading Tall timber tales
PhD and MEng students from the Fire Safety Engineering research group were present the official launch of the ARC Future Timber Hub; Australia’s leading timber research collaboration, that brings together experts from industry, government, and academia. The Hub is interdisciplinary partnership between The University … Continue reading UQ Fire at the official launch of the ARC Future Timber Hub
Written by Kevin Plasencia – kevin.plasencia@uq.net.au On Thursday 03 August 2017, Engineers Australia Structural College in conjunction with The University of Queensland and the Centre of Future Timber Structures (CFTS) hosted a seminar session entitled ‘Realising Dreams with Timber Structures’. Two guest speakers … Continue reading Seminar: ‘Realising Dreams with Timber Structures’
Next Thursday 3 August 2017, the Centre for Future Timber Structures and the UQ-SFPE Student Chapter are hosting two exceptional events at The University of Queensland. The Centre for Future Timber structures is hosting the ‘Realising Dreams with Timber Structures‘ … Continue reading Timber and Fire Safety Engineering upcoming events at UQ
The Fire Safety Engineering Research Group at The University of Queensland is offering five new PhD scholarships. Research topics range across a wide range of areas: timber fire performance structures, fire performance of timber structures, fire-induced concrete spalling, and bushfires. Scholarships … Continue reading New PhD opportunities
Last Monday April 3rd, three members of the Centre for Future Timber Structures at the University of Queensland, Dr Juan Hidalgo, Kathryn Humphreys, and Kim Baber, had the pleasure to attend a lunch organised by Timber Queensland to listen to Russell Acton from … Continue reading Brock Commons Tallwood House: Mass Wood for the Masses
Jose Urgel, visiting student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ICAI Comillas, Spain was awarded the first edition of the ICAI Comillas exchange grant given by the Technological Research Institute. Jose spent two months with UQ Fire, producing novel research outcomes out by taking … Continue reading Research collaborations with ICAI Comillas, Spain
Last week I attended the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) in Vienna. My travel was supported by the FWPA (Forest and Wood Products Australia) travel award. Attending the 2016 WCTE meant great growth of my own understanding of the potential and challenges of modern … Continue reading WCTE 2016
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Juan P. Hidalgo has recently joined the Centre for Future Timber Structures (CFTS). Juan joins the School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland as the new academic in Timber and Fire Safety Engineering. Juan brings … Continue reading New Academic in Timber and Fire Safety Engineering
The School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland has recently initiated a 5-year, $2.5M research program with government and industry partners in the Centre of Future Timber Structures (CFTS). CFTS is a Centre of Excellence for: a) the education … Continue reading Lecturer and Senior Lecturer positions in Timber, Structural, and Fire Engineering
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