Michael Lee
Michael Lee, one of Australia’s foremost experts in timber and widely regarded as the technical expert on Tasmanian timber, has joined CLTP Tasmania as operations manager. Source: Timberbiz
In January next year CLTP Tasmania will have a market-ready product and a new brand with plantation-grown CLT and GLT ready for Australia’s built environment.
With 35 years’ experience, having spent 50% of his career in industry and 50% of his time in academia, Mr Lee is a unique blend of both technical and practical aspects of Tasmanian timbers. Having spent the past 10 years as the technical officer for the Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood in the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Tasmania, he is well positioned to steer the plant to successful production.
Familiar to many architects and builders around the country, he has operated the Expert Timber Helpline and the Tasmanian Timber Quality Assurance Program while continuing to carry out research with a team of PhD students into plantation grown timber.
“The products we’re producing are really exciting and the philosophy of the business really positions it to help transform the future of the built environment in Australia,” Mr Lee said.
“We want to maintain a very flexible and agile approach to the Mass timber market in Australia that we believe is not in existence today.”
