Timber Design Society 2023 Series 5

The Timber Design Society invite you to watch their 5th webinar of their 2023 series with David Kingham presenting on learnings from Nanyang technological University’s Gaia project, the largest mass timber building in Asia.

Learnings from Nanyang Technological University’s Gaia project, the largest mass timber building in Asia.

NTU’s recently opened “Gaia” is one of the largest wooden buildings in the world, at 42,000m2 with over 13,500m3 of CLT and glulam built in one of the wettest cities in the world. This discussion will cover the journey from design through to installation and touch on learnings regarding engineering, procurement, installation and finishing works. Steeltech were the mass timber and structural steel subcontractor and together with an international team of suppliers and subcontractors, delivered the project whilst dealing with Covid disruptions and all manner of other challenges.

Presenter Bio: David trained as structural engineer in Canterbury and has had a career mixed…