News

ConFor lobbies on Northern Ireland forestry bill
2 February 2010

ConFor has highlighted the importance of sustainable and increasing supplies of wood to the future of forestry and wood-using businesses in Northern Ireland.

FHM timber frame houses scoop award
29 January 2010

Community regeneration specialist, Frank Haslam Milan (FHM) North East has been awarded Best Social Housing Project at the local Building Excellence Awards 2010 for its Beckwith Mews development.

TTF issues new country guidance
29 January 2010

A set of country guidance documents – covering Cameroon, France, Germany and the US – has been drafted by the Timber Trade Federation (TTF).

Biorenewables push land use change
22 January 2010

The National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC) is to hold a seminar, ‘The impacts of land use change: myth or reality', on 28th January to discuss the controversial issue of land use change, brought into the spotlight by increasing demand for biorenewables.

Global witness publish forestry card
22 January 2010

Campaign group Global Witness has published a “Forest Sector Transparency Report Card” to highlight best practice in developing countries.

Government leads the way on sustainable timber
20 January 2010

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today announced that from 1 April 2010 new social criteria will be added to the UK Government’s timber procurement policy, to add to the existing requirement that all Government bought timber is legal and sustainable.

Assembly calls for probe into timber-frame safety
15 January 2010

The London Assembly has unanimously asked its Planning and Housing Committee to investigate fire safety in buildings, following a series of fires in the capital involving tall and timber-frame constructions.

New chair for Forestry Commission
12 January 2010

Pamela Warhurst has been appointed as chair of the Forestry Commission.

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Features

Western Red Cedar - A wood with the 'WOW' factor, in more ways than one!

Western Red Cedar is one of those woods that, in some circumstances, is almost perfect. As well as looking spectacular, and on this point the pictures speak for themselves, here is a brief outline of the characteristics that enable it to achieve that prized status.

Doors for life?

Chiltern Dynamics’ Paul Andrews discusses trends in testing of doors.

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Environment Friendly Solution Providers

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IN SPITE of the difficult economic conditions which prevail, demand for sustainably produced products is still on the rise.

Timber frame technology leads the way in meeting & beating future CO2 emission targets

BY MIKE CRUICKSHANK OF SCOTFRAME TIMBER ENGINEERING
In a year that witnessed the death of Sir Winston Churchill, the arrival of US troops in South Vietnam and the abolition of the death penalty in Britain, it is not surprising that the introduction of new environmental building regulations were not headline news in 1965.

First affordable eco-home goes up

THE FIRST affordable eco-home for the mass market took a step closer to reality earlier this month when the fourbedroom “Aurora” house type (a joint concept between South Lanarkshire College (SLC) and developers Dawn Homes Ltd) was erected by timber frame designers and manufacturers Oregon Timber Frame Ltd.

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Events

Ecobuild
Tuesday, 2 March, 2010
Women in Construction 2010
Thursday, 11 March, 2010