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WoodSolutions Campus is a collaboration between WoodSolutions and the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood that aims to provide available-on-demand timber education and skills development opportunities to those who design and build with timber, study related courses or work in Australia’s timber and wood products supply chain.

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Campus presents learning modules for industry as well as design and build specifiers on relevant topics ranging from timber grading to design for bushfire as well as clear steps and processes for further training in timber usage.  Resources range from educational videos, power point presentations and PDFs on project case studies, industry connections and interactive educational games.

Working with universities, TAFEs and industry leaders across Australia and the globe, we’ve created a course curriculum that is progressing alongside the ever-changing industry and learning environment to provide the best and most beneficial resources to learners and educators alike.  

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Learn at your own pace

Our on-demand courses are entirely self-guided. Learn, pause, and complete the quiz whenever it fits your schedule.

Earn CPD points

Complete 100% of a WoodSolutions CAMPUS course to earn potential CPD points. 

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Access industry leading information

 Learn about key concepts required to work with timber in the built environment such as how to manage moisture content, bushfire design principles, building regulations and standards plus more.

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Managing Timber’s Moisture Content

  1. Managing Timber’s Moisture Content

    1 lesson
    1. Lesson 1: Course Introduction

  2. Wood and Water Relationships

    3 lessons
    1. Lesson 2: Moisture content: Timber shrinkage and expansion in service
    2. Lesson 3: Wood-water relationships
    3. Lesson 4: Equilibrium moisture content (EMC): Moisture content varies with region and application

  3. Methods

    4 lessons
    1. Lesson 5: Measuring moisture content (MC): Moisture meters
    2. Lesson 6: Measuring moisture content: Oven-drying
    3. Lesson 7: Measuring moisture content (MC): Resistance moisture meters
    4. Lesson 8: Measuring moisture content: Capacitance moisture meters

  4. Managing Timber’s Moisture Content in the Supply Chain

    7 lessons
    1. Lesson 9: Target moisture contents in practice
    2. Lesson 10: Moisture Content (MC) management in the distribution supply chain
    3. Lesson 11: Moisture Content (MC) management: MC assessment for packs
    4. Lesson 12: Moisture Content (MC) management: Storage best practice
    5. Lesson 13: Moisture Content (MC) management: Material dispatch and transport
    6. Lesson 14: Moisture Content (MC) management: Packing, wrapping and strapping practice
    7. Lesson 15: Moisture Content (MC) management: Material receipt

  5. Managing Timber’s Moisture Content - Knowledge Test

    1 lesson
    1. Managing Timber’s Moisture Content Knowledge Test

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