Currently we are particularly interested in:
- Phenotyping radiata pine for pulp and bioenergy relevant wood quality traits
- Quality control of naturally durable timber through grading
- Utilisation of high-density timber by-products
- Relationship between soil properties and drying defects of eucalypts
- Controlling starch content of sapwood to improve borer resistance
- NZ’s perception to preservative treated timber
- Wood properties of NZ native timbers
- Understanding self-pruning (cladoptosis) in trees (reducing knots in timber)
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Contact: Clemens Altaner
Honours, Master and PhD projects are available. Current research topics are:
- Economically and environmentally sustainable engineered wood product development
- Natural disaster-resilient timber building systems
- Long-term structural behaviour of long-span timber-based floor systems
- Small-scale engineered wood product manufacturing
- Mass timber connection design for structural performance, durability, disassembly, and adaptability.
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