Some buildings teach through what happens inside them. The Yeinie Building teaches through what it is made of.

Located within the Dugurrdja Precinct, Cairns' Far North Queensland Health Innovation Precinct, this $60M teaching and research facility for James Cook University is the largest mass timber building in Cairns. Designed by Wilson Architects in collaboration with Clarke and Prince Architects, more than 650 cubic metres of Australian-grown cross-laminated timber and glulam form the exposed superstructure: a structural choice that reduces whole-of-life embodied carbon by 39% compared to an equivalent concrete frame, saving 788 tonnes of CO2.

The program matches the ambition of the structure. A multidisciplinary clinic on the ground floor connects health professionals directly with JCU's engineers, data scientists, and IT specialists. Teaching and research facilities above focus on applied technology for health, with a particular commitment to rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across Far North Queensland and the Asia Pacific.

The building takes its place within a precinct whose name, Dugurrdja, meaning the Milky Way, was gifted by Gimuy Walubara Yidinji Elder Henrietta Marrie: knowledge flowing across country, visible to the world, originating here.