Market Access
The Market Access category covers research projects that evaluate national and international market trends to enable industry to develop business and industry development strategies.
These projects develop and improve products matched to market needs, and continue to expand markets for wood products.
Key goals include creating greater value in wood products by developing knowledge and technology to increase timber construction in residential, commercial and industrial buildings; appearance grade timber products and markets; and sustainable wood products.
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Overcoming psychological barriers to widespread acceptance of mass timber construction in Australia
This project investigated the barriers and hurdles to a widespread adoption of Mass Timber Construction (MTC) in Australia and explored the acceptance of methods specifically designed to overc... Read More -
Industrial heat credits and the Renewable Energy Target (PRA399-1516)
This report looks at the role that renewable heat credits could play in both the current RET of 33 TWh in 2020 and modelled scenario of 66 TWh of renewable electricity in 2030. Note that the A... Read More -
Improving Thermal Efficiency in Lightweight Construction: mass timber as thermal mass
The research aimed to obtain new data to inform opportunities to further improve the thermal efficiency of light-weight, timber framed, small to medium scaled buildings. The principle ta... Read More -
Improving Thermal Efficiency in Lightweight Construction: Subfloor Insulation
This research was undertaken to obtain new data to inform the challenges facing the construction of thermally efficient, light-weight, timber framed, small-scale buildings. The report focuses ... Read More -
Life Cycle Assessment of a 5 Storey Residential Building in Parkville
This study compares the life cycle environmental impacts of two multilevel residential buildings built in Australia. The first building (‘Study building’) incorporated an innovativ... Read More -
Review of new and emerging international wood modification technologies
The specific objectives of this review were to: Summarise current technical literature on wood modification technologies, their likely future direction and market opportunities. Cons... Read More -
Increasing deemed to satisfy height limits for timber construction Cost benefit analysis
This study undertook an analysis of net benefits obtained from increasing the height allowances for the deemed to satisfy (DTS) provisions in the National Construction Code (NCC) for timber co... Read More -
The effect of post-treatment machining and accelerated weathering on the fire test performance of Chemco FRXtreated western red cedar
Opportunities for using western red cedar on the exterior of buildings in bushfire-prone areas are limited by the requirements of Australian Standard (AS) 3959 Construction of buildings in bus... Read More -
Final Report For Commercial Building Costing Cases Studies – Traditional Design versus Timber Project
This project developed realistic timber costing information for building professionals in the non-housing building sector. It compared the cost of constructing four commercial building... Read More -
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Three Selected FWPA
This project undertook a Cost-Benefit Analysis of three randomly selected FWPA-funded research projects. They were assessed against three investment criteria: Net Present Value (NPV), Benefit ... Read More
