CLT Toolbox is now live with Australia’s leading mass timber suppliers all signing partnership agreements with the software provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wood Central Publisher spoke to CLT Toolbox co-founders Adam Jones and Ringo Thomas, who are both with the software development team in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They revealed that NeXTimber by Timberlink, Xlam, Cusp and ASH have joined the ARC Advance Timber – administered by the University of Queensland and Monash University in committing to the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The milestone caps off a busy month for the co-founders, who earlier this month announced that Bluescope were among a consortium of investors <\/a>backing the software to remove ‘bottlenecks’ in mass timber construction systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia, they said, “has cemented itself as a global leader in timber adoption,” not only in constructing mass timber buildings<\/a> but also in establishing government policies to champion embodied carbon.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In June<\/a>, Wood Central revealed that global demand for cross-laminated timber is forecast to triple between 2023 and 2030, driven by demand in the Asia Pacific region fuelled by Australia, Japan, China, and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Australia and NZ alone, the market is expected to exceed 800,000 cubic metres by 2026.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to co-founder Adam Jones, the software aims to eliminate embodied carbon from construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Cross Laminated Timber is just the beginning; our technology can be applied to all timber products,” he told Wood Central in March.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the company aims to empower structural engineers to drive positive change through sustainable design practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “By providing state-of-the-art software that automates complex structural design computations and addresses the knowledge gap left by conventional university courses, we can remove barriers to entry for engineers working with sustainable materials.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The software will, therefore, assist in making up for a shortage of structural engineers available to sign off mass timber construction systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “In Australia, we have about 10,000 structural engineers and only 30 of them are timber specialists,” Mr Jones said earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n