The 5th Pacific Timber Engineering Conference (PTEC 2019) takes place in the beautiful Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank Parklands, Queensland, Australia from 10-12 July 2019. Hosted by the Future Timber Hub, ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Tall Timber Buildings, and in collaboration with The University of Queensland’s School of Civil Engineering. The PTEC 2019 aims to provide a forum for both early career and experienced academics, practitioners, researchers, and research students in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere in the world, to share the latest developments in research and application of timber in construction.