Timber Design Society 2024 Series | 4
Thu, 16 May
|Online via Zoom
The Timber Design Society invite you to join this webinar 'Good and Bad Connection Designs'. In this presentation, Pierre Quenneville will highlight some of the issues with timber connections, observed over the course of his career and provide some recommendations as to potential alternatives or rem


Time & Location
16 May 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Online via Zoom
About the event
Speaker Bio: Pierre Quenneville
Pierre is a professor of timber design at the University of Auckland. As a structural engineer specialized in timber structures, Pierre’s expertise is with timber connections. He has participated heavily in the development of the recent New Zealand timber design standard, more specifically in its connection chapter. His research work is mostly on the brittle failure of timber connections but most recently he is concentrating on resilient connections for structures.