ASBN SustainabiliTEA #26 // CLT in Education Buildings

Please join us for another ASBN SustainabiliTEA - a time to enjoy some tea (or morning beverage of your choice) whilst having a yarn about a diversity of topics around sustainable and regenerative built environments.

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Knut Menden from betti & knut will share education based case studies from his NSW practice, general CLT construction topics, and fire engineering aspects of CLT. A major focus of Knut’s work are pre-fabricated mass timber structures, as well as utilising Passivhaus design principles. Russell Kilmartin from Scientific Fire Services will also be joining the call to share his fire engineering insights and answer your technical questions.

Don't miss this chance to check out what is happening interstate with this exciting material!

We look forward to hearing Knut and Russell's insights, whilst sharing space with you all virtually over a soothing cuppa.

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About the Speakers

Knut Menden - betti & knut
Knut Menden draws on more than 20 years of experience as an architect in award-winning sustainable architecture. With a European background and in depth knowledge of sustainability and energy- efficient buildings, along with experience in different climate zones in different countries (Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, New Zealand and Australia), he runs an architectural studio based in Coledale, NSW together with his partner Interior Architect Bettina Steffens.

Coming from high-end residential design and complex commercial projects (particularly educational projects) the practice covers a wide range of project typologies and delivers creative and innovative design.

Minimising architecture’s impact on the natural environment with very low energy use as a pathway to creating sustainable and healthy living and working environments is at the centre of the practice's core values.

Russell Kilmartin - Director, Scientific Fire Services

Russell is a director of Scientific Fire Services and an experienced professional in the field of fire safety risk engineering. He has provided expert consulting for architects, developers and project managers throughout Australia and South-East Asia, for both private and public sector clients for over 20 years. His experience in consulting extends to master planning of large precinct-based developments, civic buildings, commercial, industrial and residential building classifications.

In more recent years Russell has worked on some of Australia’s most innovative timber buildings and successfully presenting large scale mass timber building designs to building authorities and fire brigades in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Key projects include: Clifton Hill Primary School(Vic), Ryde College – Pavilion (NSW), SINSW Oran Park (NSW), SINSW Gregory Hills (NSW), Oakhill College (NSW), Forte Apartments (Vic), 25 King Street (Qld), 55 Southbank Boulevard (Vic), 36 Wellington Street (Vic), Geelong City Council Administration building (Vic), Latrobe University Student Accommodation (Vic), Surry Hills Village (NSW), Decjuba Cremorne (Vic), among others.

Russell and the team at Scientific Fire Services have been privileged to work with industry leading architects, designers and experts in mas timber technology and is passionate about ensuring that structural timber is appropriately adopted within the modern building construction landscape. Russell works with clients both large and small and enjoys working with other professional consultants who share a united and collaborative approach to the delivery of innovative projects.  

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Acknowledgement of Country

Adelaide Sustainable Building Network acknowledges the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Tarntanya, where our work is most often undertaken. We also acknowledge the Peramangk People of the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Ngarrindjeri of Fleurieu, Coorong and lower Murray regions and the Ngadjuri of the Barossa and Mid-North as the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality recognises the connectedness of people and culture with earth, sky and water country. The land is alive with traces of Dreaming ancestors. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land