Civil Engineering Departmental Seminar - MASS TIMBER CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES - OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Dr. Frank Lam, Fellow of International Academy of Wood Science, holds the position of senior Chair Professor of Wood Building Design and Construction in the Department of Wood Science at the University of British Columbia. Under the Chair of Wood Building Design and Construction, Dr. Lam leads a multi-disciplinary team of professors within the UBC Faculties of Forestry (Wood Science) and Applied Science (Architecture and Civil Engineering) to develop holistic solutions for the use of timber as a renewable environmentally friendly structural material in construction. He also heads the Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics Laboratory at UBC with a team of engineers and graduate students and state of the art testing equipment to address issues related to the structural performance of wood products and systems
Dr. Frank Lam obtained his post-secondary education from the University of BC in the area of Structural & Earthquake Engineering and Wood Mechanics. He is a Professional Engineer and actively participates in many national and international scholarly societies and committees. He has published over 250 journal and conference articles in field of Timber Engineering. He is interested in the development of fundamental knowledge on the structural behavior of solid sawn timber, wood based composites, and engineered wood systems. His current research focuses on seismic resistance of engineered wood systems; development of advanced grading system; modeling the influence of processing variables on the physical and mechanical properties of structural composite lumber, and code and standards related activities.