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

CSAW is now also an education provider, providing the building design and timber production industries with:

·      Graduate Certificate in Timber (Processing and Building) for 2012. You can find out more about the course here.

·      You can view an introductory presentation about the course here or one of the lectures from the GradCert Timber here.

·      Master Classes in timber production and use. You can find out more about the Master Classes here.

CSAW's LATEST podcast is available here.

An extension of the University of Tasmania's School of Architecture & Design, 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.

The Centre's research engagements are consolidated into two interrelated research streams.

Timber Research is focused on timber processing and product innovation; and

Building Research is focused on timber applications in sustainable built environments.

CSAW operates out of the offices at the School of Architecture & Design at Inveresk, at the CRC for Forestry and the School of Engineering in Hobart. It maintains a Timber Research Laboratory, timber testing facilities, and test buildings at the University's Newnham campus.