Timber Design Society 2024 Series | 3

90 Devonport Road is a new 8 storey timber office building in the heart of Tauranga, with LVL beams and columns, CLT floors and cores, and steel K-frames. This talk will outline the rationale for choosing to design in timber and steel, what has worked well, and some of the challenges encountered, now that construction has reached roof level.

Speaker Bio: Nicki has over 10 years of engineering experience in both New Zealand and the UK. She has experience in engineering within the constraints of existing buildings, as well as both computer modelling and construction monitoring.

She has dealt with all stages of construction from masterplanning of schemes through to construction completion and assessment of existing buildings. She has a particular interest in heritage buildings.

She is currently interested in large scale timber structures and lower carbon design to promote sustainability.