A one-day conference intended to educate, inspire and empower architects, engineers, suppliers and clients to design and build better timber buildings. The Better Timber Buildings conference returns this year, emboldened by its success in 2018, with a specially curated programme headlined by two fantastic keynote speakers. Come along to the Royal Geographical Society, London, on […]Read More
COMPOSITE PRIME JOINS TTF Decking company Composite Prime has been awarded membership of the TimberTrade Federation (TTF), becoming the first member of the industry body to supply composite materials. The company has secured distribution partnership agreements for its HD Deck ® DUAL and HD Deck ® XS ranges with, among others, Arnold Laver, Taylor Maxwell […]Read More
SAY IT WITH WOOD Using crushed charcoal, or Biochar, on farms and gardens is nothing new. The Aztecs utilised it to make a rich growing medium called Terra Preta. This enabled them to produce food on nutrient poor ground. In modern times biochar is a common tool in European and American agriculture – for instance […]Read More
IMPREST PREMIUM RANGE PRODUCTS AWARDED BY WPA AS Imprest is a proud winner of the WPA (Wood Protection Association) Treated Wood Quality Excellence award 2018. The Award was given for manufacturing wood products under WPA Benchmark scheme for preservative pre-treated wood. Estonian based AS Imprest recognise that third-party quality assurance was a key factor to […]Read More
The Ardcastle floating pier project is part of a strategy for sustainable transport planning initiated by Scotland’s £1bn timber industry sector. It will allow c£10m worth of timber reserves to be unlocked in West Argyll. The new pier has been commissioned by JST Floating Piers Ltd and is open to all users that want to […]Read More
TWO OF BRITAIN’S LEADING TIMBER ASSOCIATIONS HAVE JOINED FORCES TO PUBLISH SITE CHECK: THE TIMBER FRAME POCKET BOOK – THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BEST PRACTICE IN TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION. TRADA and the Structural Timber Association (STA) have combined their expert knowledge to update and merge individual timber frame publications to produce a single-source ‘best-of both’ […]Read More
Linking the latest Excalibur incising machines firmly into the British-grown timber supply chain, Lonza Wood Protection has gained a promotional licence from Grown in Britain. This enables Lonza, with their engineering partners on Excalibur, Tweddle Engineering, to express their support visibly for the Grown in Britain campaign, which is driving markets for British-grown timber and […]Read More
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