Jan 29, 2021
Recent guests of the Innovators in Affordable Housing Podcast are Peter and Kirsty from Timber Design Initiatives, a company who's raison d’être is to deliver Europe-wide approaches to education, innovation and demonstration of best practice in the use of wood in architecture, design and construction through applied research collaborations with academia and industry.
Peter is an architect and director of Timber Design Initiatives (TDI) Ltd. and the author of 'New Timber Architecture in Scotland’ and ‘The Modern Timber House in the UK: New Paradigms and Technologies'. He leads the company's Mass Timber Academy and its Build Back Rural initiative to help remote rural communities build their own affordable homes using locally manufactured dowel laminated timber panels.
Kirsty is a recent graduate from Dundee's Architecture and Urban Planning Masters unit, focusing on the contemporary perception of community in collaboration with Perth & Kinross Council. She is now part of the team at Timber Design Initiatives Ltd, actively working on a project to help solve the rural housing crisis in Scotland.
In this episode Peter, Kirsty
and myself talked about how timber design and construction
contribute to the technological innovation within the property
development industry. We have discussed the general misconceptions
of using timber as well as its advantages and most especially its
positive effects on the affordable housing sector.