Welcome

Welcome to the Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW) web site.  CSAW is a multidisciplinary research and education group that aspires to be a national leader in sustainable architectural design and building with wood.

The Centre’s aim is to foster the use of timber as a building material that is:

  • Efficient
  • Economic
  • Environmentally sustainable
  • Socially responsible


New CSAW Website

The new Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW) was launched earlier this year, and is part of the development and expansion of the Timber Research Unit (UTAS).

The new CSAW website has been designed for easy access to all the information CSAW produces; our research and industry projects, technical and education publications, timber information websites, technical services and facilities, and the expertise of our staff.

An extension of the University of Tasmania’s School of Architecture & Design and with seeding investment from the University of Tasmania’s Launceston Blueprint initiative, CSAW has grown out of the School’s successful Timber Research Unit and is already active in research and education in:

  • sustainable architecture with wood;
  • use of plantation and regrowth eucalypts in building and structures;
  • optimising value and material recovery from plantation and regrowth eucalypts;
  • extension and technology transfer.

As it has grown from an active research unit, the new Centre has established staff, facilities and collaborative relationships, and is largely externally funded.