Search Results: 'Ecobuild'

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

Consolidation to increase in timber sector
20 February, 2017
I was sat in the Mayfair offices of new Timbmet owner The Hadleigh Timber Group recently asking its chairman Martyn Meade how he saw the future of the UK timber products industry.

Reaching for the skies
20 April, 2016
You know that times are changing when people start talking seriously about building city skyscrapers using wood.

Digging deep
20 March, 2015
So, spring is here at last and with it that first touch of milder weather, lighter evenings and a feeling of optimism about the months to come.

The Essentials Of Enaging Education
20 February, 2015
TRADA’s University liaison manager Elizabeth Turner explains how the University Engagement Programme is going from strength to strength

Investment continues
20 February, 2015
Travelling around Scotland with colleague Thomas Jay (TTJ group sales manager) recently gave ample evidence of the business confidence being felt by companies in the timber industry.

An across the board performer
08 February, 2014
The first year of the EU Timber Regulation has run smoothly in the UK, says TTJ editor Mike Jeffree

Delivering data delivers sales
23 March, 2013
Stout shoes and stamina are what's needed on a TRADA Ecobuild tour.

Wood Technology Society stronger than ever
28 April, 2012
The WTS is benefiting from being part of a larger, well-funded organisation, says Jim Coulson

Make use of first timber qualifications
28 April, 2012
The timber industry must get behind its new NVQs, says Helen Hewitt

Making a mark at Ecobuild
14 April, 2012

Timber is made for Ecobuild
17 March, 2012
Ecobuild is timber's shop front for the construction industry, says Keith Fryer

Prime venue for?new NVQ launch
17 March, 2012
The timber industry's new NVQs will be launched at Ecobuild

Unity on show at hit Timber Expo
15 October, 2011
Timber Expo showed the timber industry pulling together

Can we build it? Yes we can!
25 June, 2011
Mike Jeffree celebrates building with timber

Drawing a line on due diligence
16 April, 2011

Glulam – a leading building material
16 April, 2011
Glulam's properties rival those of steel, says Pasquill managing director Stuart McKill

The time is right for timber industry show
02 April, 2011
Timber Expo will demonstrate to specifiers that timber has come of age, says Rupert Scott

Ecobuild – the construction industry's Glastonbury
19 March, 2011
Timber came of age at this year's Ecobuild, says Peter Travis, managing director of advertising agency +Travis

Specification for a sustainable built environment
19 March, 2011
Guy Thompson, head of architecture, sustainability and housing at the Concrete Centre, says it's time to take a more holistic approach to a sustainable built environment