Dayne Davis
Dayne Davis, an international construction consultant and timber specialist, has joined Cusp on a part-time basis as the company’s General Manager – Construction. Source: Timberbiz
Founding Timber Design Studios in 2020, Mr Davis has worked alongside the Cusp team on numerous projects, including Launceston’s mass timber build and the Australian Pavilion for the Dubai World Expo.
He continues to work at the studio, which is comprised of some of Europe’s leading timber experts who collaboratively bring international timber projects to life.
Notably, Mr Davis was a construction manager on the prestigious London Shard project. At 310 metres it is the tallest skyscraper in Europe and cost more than US$1.2 billion to build. He has also worked on one of Central America’s largest hydroelectric dams in Honduras, Central America, the La Vegona Hydroelectric Project. This project saw extraordinary challenges with constructability and logistics, since the construction site was located several hours in the Honduran jungle.
“At Cusp we are looking to work with industry to create sustainable structural solutions for all forms of development,” he said.
Mr Davis’ main attraction for joining Cusp was due to the company’s innovative thinking and its commitment to developing and producing leading-edge timber products in a growing market.
“Cusp is working with a repurposed species of timber, Eucalyptus Nitens, and it is always exciting to break new barriers,” he said.
“Their new investment into one of the largest glulam presses in Australia and now their ability to not only block glue large sizes comparable to European producers, but also produce curved beams, will see them become a leader in this space in a short amount of time.”
Mr Davis is a member of the DGNB, the German Institute for Sustainable Construction, and is committed to working with developers, designers, and investors to find innovative, carbon-neutral and hybrid solutions to deliver the buildings of tomorrow
Architects, engineers and developers are encouraged to speak with Mr Davies about the use of Cusp’s CLT, lightweight prefabricated or GLT products by calling 1300 792 519 or emailing [email protected]
