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Designing Light-Frame Wood Structures Over Podiums: Wind Considerations

11 November 2025

National Online Seminar. This course highlights seismic design considerations for mid-rise light-frame wood buildings over concrete podiums, a common structural configuration in urban residential development.

Date & Time: Nov 14, 2025 07:00 AM in Auckland, Wellington

WoodWorks Issue – 11 Nov 2025

Welcome

Greetings from your WoodWorks team. Hidden in plain sight: Juken New Zealand’s engineered ‘Triboard’ composite wood panels provide design flexibility and speed of construction for residential housing. Other stories in this issue:

  • It’s exciting to see The Illawarra Grammar School project taking shape — soon to be Australia’s first all-CLT school designed to the International Passivhaus Standard.
  • Mass timber scales the benefits of new state-of-the-art climbing facility.
  • The mass timber tipping point is closer than you think.
  • One for the engineers and quite topical given our recent Red Wind Alerts in New Zealand.
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