ARC - Key Persons
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- Researcher With the QDAF
Mr. Faircloth is a researcher with the QDAF, Forest Product Innovations team at the Salisbury Research Facility. His research focus is in product manufacturing and evaluation techniques recently concentrating on non-destructive evaluation methods for cross laminated timber (CLT) panels within the previous Centre for Future Timber Structures (CFTS) Hub. In addition to the above, Mr. Faircloth's role sees him play a leading role in the majority of product manufacturing and evaluation research on site as well as representing the department both within Standards Australia's technical committee and as the NATA representative. His research and passion for the industry has resulted in numerous awards and publications.
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- Founder of CLT Toolbox
- Partner Investigator
Adam Jones is the Founder of CLT Toolbox, a software company looking to eliminate the bottlenecks to the adoption of low embodied carbon materials.
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- Partner Investigator / Scion New Zealand Crown Research Institute
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- Partner Investigator / Robert Bird Group
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- QDAF Team Leader Project Leader Partner Investigator / Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
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- Partner Investigator / Meta - Mate Pty Ltd
- Project Manager at Meta
Candy Wang is a project manager at Meta-Mate Pty Ltd, with a diverse background in architectural practice and academia. Candy has experience in all phases of architectural projects, ranging from schematic design to construction documentation. She has also served as a sessional staff member at The University of Melbourne. With a master's degree in architecture and a bachelor's degree in architectural design, Candy combines practical expertise with design and management. She is currently focusing on developing innovative strategies for Meta-Mate and managing research projects within the company, with a specific emphasis on intelligent design, new materials, and prefabrication architecture.
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- Member of the Executive Board
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- Node Leader - Performance of Building Components Project Leader / the University of Queensland
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- Partner Investigator / the University of British Columbia
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- Theme Leader - Planning Change Node Leader - Socio - Economic Opportunity & Interventions for Change / the University of Queensland
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- Node Leader - Value - Chain Innovation Project Leader / the University of Queensland
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Partner Investigator / Multinail Australia Pty Ltd
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- Partner Investigator / Scion New Zealand Crown Research Institute
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- Chief Investigator / University of Tasmania
- Member of the Australian Timber and Construction Education Network
Dr Louise Wallis has over 20 years' experience at the School of Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania. Her teaching and research have revolved around several themes - architectural education through design/build projects and design studios, hardwood timber products and processing, materials and fabrication, collaborative design/ teamwork and architectural science.
She has both led, collaborated, and worked on nationally competitive grants related to architectural education and timber research. Louise typically designs and conducts mixed methods research collecting both qualitative (interviews, focus groups, surveys) and quantitative data. It is both her breadth of knowledge and working connections with the AEC industry, forestry and wood products sectors and the construction process that allows rich and deep insights and links from qualitative data sets. These both inform or respond to her teaching and supervision of PhD students.
Louise is a member of the Australian Timber and Construction Education Network (ATCEN) and Tasmanian Timber Forest and Forest Products Network (TFFPN).
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- Project Leader
- Researcher
- Project Leader Partner Investigator
Dr. Chandan Kumar is a highly accomplished researcher with a strong track record in academia, industry, and government collaborations. His research focuses on drying/seasoning, forest resource characterisation, non-destructive evaluation, engineered wood products, machine learning, and wood treatment. His work on drying, wood products and numerical modelling has received high citations and recognition. Dr. Kumar has successfully led multidisciplinary projects covering a range of topics, including timber drying and non-destructive testing for the previous ARC Future Timber Hub, forest resource characterisation, and particleboard manufacturing.
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- Senior Chair
- Partner Investigator / the University of British Columbia
Dr. Frank Lam holds the position of senior Chair Professor of Wood Building Design and Construction in the Department of Wood Science at the University of British Columbia. Under the Chair of Wood Building Design and Construction, Dr. Lam leads a multi-disciplinary team of professors within the UBC Faculties of Forestry (Wood Science) and Applied Science (Architecture and Civil Engineering) to develop holistic solutions for the use of timber as a renewable environmentally friendly structural material in construction. He also heads the Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics Laboratory at UBC with a team of engineers and graduate students and state of the art testing equipment to address issues related to the structural performance of wood products and systems. . His current research focuses on seismic resistance of engineered wood systems; development of advanced grading system; modeling the influence of processing variables on the physical and mechanical properties of structural composite lumber, and code and standards related activities.
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- Executive Board Member / Meta - Mate Pty Ltd
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Theme Leader - Transformative Benefits Partner Investigator
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- Partner Investigator / the University of British Columbia
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- Executive Board Member / Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia
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- Chief Investigator / University of Tasmania
- Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Design at the University
Georgia Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania, who earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the human experience of architecture, with a special interest in cultural buildings like museums and libraries. She has extensive experience working with community and industry partners to understand how architecture can support institutional missions.
She is author of The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums (Routledge 2016), editor of Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design: Theory and Practice of Place (Routledge 2020) and co-editor with Lusi Morhayim of Revisiting "Social Factors:" Advancing Research into People and Place (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015).
Her current work focuses on architecture as a medium of communication, looking both at architecture in the online media and at how buildings can communicate values of sustainability. She has published multiple papers about green museums and how architecture can be used, especially in an online media era, to highlight sustainable values and what innovative strategies help interpret and explain green building strategies and technologies.
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- Chief Investigator / University of New South Wales
- Professor of Structural Engineering in the School
Hamid Valipour is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD from UNSW Sydney in 2009. He currently is a member of CIES at UNSW Sydney. Hamid's teaching and research interests are structural mechanics and finite element analysis and design of structures, constitutive modelling of timber, behaviour of structures subjected to short- and long-term loads and variable environmental conditions and development of innovative hybrid steel-timber-concrete structural systems and connections that reduce carbon- and energy- footprint of the structures and facilitate deconstruction.
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- Partner Investigator / Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia
Harrison Brooke holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) and previously work as a researcher at the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Forest Products Innovation facility in Brisbane. Since 2017, Harrison has worked for the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia (EWPAA). As Technical Manager, he is responsible for overseeing the EWPAA Product Certification Scheme, coordinating standards development activities, representing the EWPAA Members on Standards Australia Committees, and connecting the industry with research providers and centres to help align research outcomes with industry needs.
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Partner Investigator / Scion New Zealand Crown Research Institute
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- Fellow of Engineers Australia
- Node Leader - Performance of Building Components Executive Board Member / Griffith University
Professor Hong Guan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Griffith University. She is an expert in structural engineering and computational mechanics. Her current research focus is on progressive collapse resistance of concrete flat plate structures and mass timber frame buildings. She is internationally recognised as the world's top 2% scientists based on citations (Elsevier BV) and the world's top ten most active researchers in disproportionate/progressive collapse research of concrete structures (Scopus). She is the author or co-author of over 340 scholarly publications (including over 150 journal publications), on a wide range of topics in the areas of structural engineering, progressive collapse, concrete and timber structures, seismic simulation, bridge deterioration modelling, health monitoring of structures and structural topology optimisation.
Professor Guan is a Fellow of Engineers Australia. She also serves as Executive Committee Member of the Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring, Associated Editor of Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Editorial Board Member of Engineering Mechanics, and International Steering Committee Member of East-Asia Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC).
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- Chief Investigator / the University of Queensland
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- Theme Leader - Innovative Solutions Node Leader - Manufacturing Innovation & Value - Chain Innovation / the University of Queensland
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- Chief Investigator / Griffith University
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- Node Leader - Socio - Economic Opportunity Project Leader / the University of Queensland
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- Partner Investigator / Megawall Australia Pty Ltd
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- Research Hub Director Executive Board Member / the University of Queensland
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- Research Hub Manager / the University of Queensland
As Research Hub Manager, Kelly is responsible for supporting the Research Hub Director and Research Hub Deputy Director in the delivery on the Hub aims and objectives. Kelly will work with the Director / Deputy Director to ensure that milestones and KPIs are met, including ARC reporting; will be responsible for maintaining the Hub finances, oversee contract arrangements and IP; will be the secretariat to the Executive Board and the Steering Group Committee. The Manager's role is integral for the Hub to operate effectively and is key to support the Hub's governance structure and ensure that all the Research Nodes work at optimum level whilst assisting with the communications / outputs, inclusive of writing news articles for the Hub website and social media.
Kelly was key organiser of the Pacific Timber Engineering Conference (PTEC 2019) and in her role will be the Secretariat of the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2025) to be held in Brisbane in 2025.
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Node Leader - Design for Extended Building Life Project Leader / the University of Queensland
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- Member of the Executive Board
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- Chief Investigator / Deakin University
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- Node Leader - Timber Building Performance for Occupants Project Leader / University of Tasmania
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- Project Leader Partner Investigator
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- Partner Investigator Executive Board Member
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- Partner Investigator / the University of British Columbia
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Node Leader - Design for Extended Building Life Project Leader / the University of Queensland
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- Partner Investigator / Loggo Pty Ltd
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- Research Hub Deputy Director Node Leader - towards a Low - Carbon & Circular Economy / Monash University
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- Node Leader - Manufacturing Innovation Chief Investigator / University of Melbourne
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- Partner Investigator Executive Board Member
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- Project Leader Partner Investigator
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Partner Investigator / University of Victoria
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator
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- Member of the Executive Board
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- Partner Investigator Steering Group Committee Chair
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- Partner Investigator / Tzannes Associates
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- Project Leader Chief Investigator