Please join us at the Growing Timber Connections conference on 10 September. You will be inspired to hear and see how timber is being used successfully in the built environment on home soil from is an exciting line-up of speakers who will present their timber architectural and engineering case studies.

You need to register – you can just arrive. ATTENDANCE IS FREE FOR MEDIA.

DATE: 10 September 2024

TIME: 07:45 for 08:00 – 16:30

VENUE: Future Africa Main Auditorium
Future Africa Campus, University of Pretoria, South St, Koedoespoort 456-Jr, Pretoria, 0186

Please find attached the lastest programme.

Our planet is faced with both an environmental crisis and housing crisis. There is, however, a sector that is overlooked as a viable, renewable and long-term solution to climate change and urbanisation. Less than 1% of new South African houses use timber as the primary construction material. By comparison, some 90% of new houses in New Zealand are made of timber.

At the mention of wood, your mind’s eye might conjure an image of a log cabin or “wendy house”, or perhaps a roof truss or timber flooring. It’s unlikely that you imagined a multi-storey building made from cross laminated timber (CLT), a type of engineered wood for mass timber construction. 

For more information, please visit Growing Timber Connections.

The Timber Construction Conference is an annual event organised by the University of Pretoria in partnership with the Department of Trade Industry and Competition (dtic) and the Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA), and York Timbers.  The event features knowledge-sharing and networking sessions with exhibitions by industry leaders.