{"id":29690,"date":"2025-10-29T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=29690"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:21:17","slug":"new-precinct-model-to-use-australian-timber-to-make-prefab-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/new-precinct-model-to-use-australian-timber-to-make-prefab-viable\/","title":{"rendered":"New Precinct Model to Use Australian Timber to Make Prefab Viable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Albanese government and Australia’s $28 billion forest products industry are backing a plan to turn plantation forest fibre into prefabricated timber housing, betting that a new IndustryEdge\u2011led project<\/a>, THE PRECINCT, can use modern methods of construction (MMC) to short-circuit its acute housing shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officially known as the \u201cAdvanced Manufacturing Innovation Strategy and Feasibility to Catalyse Large\u2011Scale Prefabricated Dwelling Adoption,\u201d <\/a>Wood Central understands that THE PRECINCT is a multi\u2011year, multi\u2011phase feasibility project announced last week at the Forestry Australia conference and backed by Australian Forest & Wood Innovations (AFWI).<\/a> Its aim is to scale engineered wood products, prefabricated dwellings and bio\u2011based co\u2011products so Australia keeps the value of its timber at home rather than shipping low\u2011value fibre offshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndustryEdge is grateful for the opportunity to lead development of The Precinct project, and we thank AFWI and the Federal Government for the commitment and major contributions,” according to Tim Woods, Managing Director of IndustryEdge. <\/a>“Most of all, we want to thank the industry, research and community partners we have worked with over several years to bring this project into being.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor more than five years, the Green Triangle region\u2019s plantation forest industries have supported our work to progress from understanding fibre flows to assessing opportunities, developing product options and now developing this substantial domestic manufacturing capability. We are excited to continue working with our research and development partners and to engage even more deeply with the Green Triangle region, on a project that has potential to be nationally transformative.\u201d<\/p>Last week<\/a>, Tim Woods spoke in Adelaide at the four day Forestry Australia conference where he, with Dr Joseph Lawrence – executive director of the $100m plus Australian Forest & Wood Innovations – spoke about Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform its forest-based industries and use forest science to solve many of its challenges.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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