Search Results: 'BWF'

Are we at a tipping point for fire door safety?
18 October, 2022
The recent passing of the Building Safety Act 2022, along with the Fire Safety Act 2021, marks a critical point in the way building safety risks will be considered. To ensure compliance with the new regime, greater understanding and awareness of the benefits that third-party fire door certification provides is crucial, writes Helen Hewitt, CEO of the British Woodworking Federation (BWF)

Backing the low carbon campaign
26 August, 2020
Timber products have such a great story to tell.

General election: Forget Brexit, Get Britain Building!
05 December, 2019
TTJ managing director David Hopkins says politicians should unite around the need to solve the housing crisis

You'll never work alone
17 June, 2019
The excitement approaching a Champions League final involving two English teams was getting to fever pitch at the time of writing this column.

Driving Up Standards, Attracting Talent
22 April, 2019
The year ahead looks challenging, but the BWF is not about to relax its efforts supporting the woodworking sector to further improve performance and recruit and hone the skills of its next generation of employees, says chief executive Helen Hewitt

Getting training on track
22 April, 2019
Progress is being made, but improving training and education continues to be an imperative for the future of the timber sector, writes Geoff Rhodes of forest products and international trade consultancy GRA, recipient of TTJ’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award

Milan and Nantes shows punch weight
26 July, 2018
Nantes and Milan are key places in the European timber industry calendar this year.

Timber trades count down to the GDPR
18 April, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation has major implications for business, says Matthew Mahony, British Woodworking Federation policy and communications executive

Environmental impact assessment made easier
21 April, 2017
Life Cycle Assessments and Environmental Product Declarations are becoming increasingly important in building materials specification, but there are increasingly user-friendly tools to generate them, writes Dr Shamir Ghumra, director at the BRE Centre for Sustainable Products

New Economy, New Opportunity
21 November, 2016
The UK’s post-Brexit economic reinvention provides an opportunity for the timber sector to highlight its potential in wealth and job creation and in contributing to low carbon growth and development, writes Timber Trade Federation managing director - Dave Hopkins

On The Brink of Skills Disaster
24 October, 2016
The education, training and skills arena never sits still, but latest policy changes are aserious worry. In fact British Woodworking Federation head of membership and trainingDave Campbell says the timber industry sits on the precipice of skills disaster

That’s democracy!
20 July, 2016
Well it happened. Whatever way you voted in the EU referendum we now face undeniably one of the biggest periods of change ever in the UK. That’s democracy!

Speaking out with a single voice
20 July, 2016
Recent months have certainly seen major political upheaval, says Timber Trade Federation managing director David Hopkins. But, with this comes great opportunity

Driving positive change
20 July, 2016
British Woodworking Federation (BWF) chief executive Iain McIlwee says the BWF has joined the Confederation of Timber Industries at a time of great opportunity to drive positive change

Brace yourself for a bumpy ride
21 March, 2016
British Woodworking Federation chief executive Iain McIlwee says 2016 looks set to be challenging for the joinery sector. The key is for businesses, with support from the BWF, to identify and manage the risks ahead

Big investments
24 February, 2016
Investments don't get a lot bigger in the timber trade than the £95m Norbord has just committed to with its Inverness plant.

Better together
20 April, 2015
Stuart Goodall, chief executive of Confor, argues that the broad church and clear messages behind the campaign for Scottish independence could provide a lesson for the timber sector

The voice of the timber Industry
20 January, 2015

One Market, One Message
20 January, 2015
David Lennan, chief executive of the Timber Trade Federation, explains how a stronger, more unified timber industry voice will help the sector

Certification adds value
24 September, 2014
T Brewer director Keith Fryer comments on the value certification brings to forests and on the importance of representing timber with one voice