Six Australian engineers will receive a full pass to the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE), hosted in Brisbane June 22-26, 2025, thanks to the Gottstein Trust—Australia’s national education trust for wood products—which has secured the passes for timber engineers.
The world’s leading scientific forum for timber construction, the organising committee for year’s WCTE is being led by Professor Keith Crews – a 1990 Gottstein fellow – a prominent timber research leader and Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub to Advance Timber in Australia’s Built Environment.
This afternoon, Wood Central spoke to Helen Murray, Principal of Kurrumbene Projects & Advocacy, whose team manages The Gottstein Trust. She said early-career engineers shouldn’t miss this great opportunity to rub shoulders with the world’s leading timber engineering researchers and industry professionals right here in Australia. “We have three applications already, and interested people have until midnight March 30 to apply through the online form.”
Last week, Wood Central spoke exclusively to Professor Keith Crews, who said that this year’s conference will focus on six topics: “Material Performance and Durability, Sustainability and Timber in the Circular Economy, Timber Engineering and Structural Performance, Timber Architecture and Biophilic Design, Education, Innovation and Challenges, and importantly, Exemplars and Construction Case Studies.”
Poised to be one of the largest WCTE’s on record, organisers have been working through more than 950 oral and poster presentations centred around this year’s overall conference theme, ‘Advancing Timber for the Future Build Environment.’
- To learn more about the World Conference on Timber Engineering in Brisbane, click here for Wood Central’s report last year. To learn more about Professor Keith Crews Gottstein’s Report, click here.
