Meet with industry colleagues and learn about the sustainable principles driving innovators in the mass timber construction industry.
Speakers include:
- Paul Kremer, host of the Mass Timber Construction podcast
- Kieran Hayes, XLAM
- John Tallis, Our FabHaus
prefabAUS Networking Event
Date: Thursday 4 August 2022
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Registration fees: $25 members, $45 non-members.
Paul Kremer
Paul Kremer’s work covers a diverse portfolio of prebuild and panelised construction technology. His work at XLam supported the establishing the first Cross Laminated Timber(CLT) plants in Australia and New Zealand. Paul is an accomplished CEO and holds several academic appointments including, as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Engineering atDeakin University andResearch Fellow at the University of Melbourne in InfrastructureEngineering. Paul’s contribution on several prefabricated construction steering committees culminated in the development of important frameworks for education and training programs, which are significantly transforming and modernising the construction sector. His industry/research interests include construction law in the emerging technologies sector and prefabricated construction systems/strategy development and integration.
Kieran Hayes
Australians spend more than 90% of their lives inside, and the buildings industry currently contributes to ~40% of global annual emissions. Mass timber is an important tool to improve the quality of time spent indoors and reduce these embodied carbon related emissions. In Kieran’s role as a Structural Engineer with XLAM, he is continually striving to encourage the uptake of mass timber and design buildings that the inhabitants of this earth deserve!
Kieran’s journey into Structural engineering began at the University of Sydney where he achieved first class honours in a combined degree of Civil Engineering (Structures) and Project Management. After university he worked in the buildings team at Mott MacDonald where he had the opportunity to work on the design some significant infrastructure projects including the New Sydney Fish Markets and Wynyard Place–Shell House. It was during this time that Kieran developed an expertise in timber design and the calculation, reporting and reduction of embodied carbon in structures. Since joining XLAM, Kieran has worked on business & product development initiatives as well as numerous mass timber building designs from concept to construction. His role sees him engage with the entire length of the supply chain; all the way from processing of sawn timber at Hyne’s Tumbarumba mill to the final certification of CLT and Glulam components on construction sites.
John Tallis
As an Architect for over 20 years, John has dedicated his career to problem solving across most building topologies. John sees Our Fab Haus as a unique opportunity to develop a quality architectural offering, that uses the robust principles of Prefabrication achieving thePassive Haus Standard, delivered at a great value proposition. This model provides an exemplar to what can be done through appropriate technology utilising prefabricated modular procurement to create forms and spaces that are elegant, flexible, functional and healthy to live in too.