Search Results: 'The American Hardwood Export Council'

Wood Awards launch app
17 December, 2012
A free app has been launched by the Wood Awards, giving instant access to photos and technical details of the winners and shortlisted entries for this year’s competition.

Making a splash
10 December, 2012
The Hurlingham Club’s new outdoor pool won the top prize at this year’s Wood Awards. Lucy Kamall reports

Invite to reap Awards rewards
10 December, 2012
Timber building in the UK today seems to know no boundaries – that’s if the Wood Awards are anything to go by.

Invite to reap Awards rewards
10 December, 2012
Timber building in the UK today seems to know no boundaries - that's if the Wood Awards are anything to go by.

Are you sitting sustainably?
12 November, 2012
AHEC’s latest project for the London Design Festival merged design with sustainability. Sally Spencer reports

Two-way trading street
27 October, 2012
The Global WoodMart in Malaysia underlined South-east Asia’s growing significance as a wood importer, as well as a supplier of timber and wood products worldwide. Mike Jeffree reports

Tropical timber workshp
21 October, 2012
The Timber Trade Federation’s EU Timber Regulation/Responsible Purchasing Workshop, focusing on sourcing from temperate regions will be held, on October 31 at the Building Centre in London.

Global show for globalised trade
13 October, 2012
Globalisation of the timber industry benefits all, says TTJ editor Mike Jeffree

V&A exhibition highlights US hardwood sustainability
01 October, 2012
A hardwood chair design project involving Royal College of Art students and the American Hardwood Export Council culminated in a London debate about use of hardwood as a material and life cycle assessments (LCA) of the completed chairs.

AHEC shows architects the way
29 September, 2012
The best way to influence architects is through projects and case studies, says David Venables, European director of the American Hardwood Export Council

AHEC shows architects the way
29 September, 2012
The best way to influence architects is through projects and case studies, says David Venables, European director of the American Hardwood Export Council

A Woodmart for the world
17 September, 2012
Malaysia’s Global Woodmart promises to be bigger, better and more international in 2012. Mike Jeffree reports

Going for gold
17 September, 2012
For its 10th year, the Wood Awards received an unprecedented 362 category entries from which an exceptional shortlist has been selected by the judges. TTJ highlights just a handful of the shortlisted entries

Wood Awards breaks record for entries
05 September, 2012
The Wood Awards has announced its 2012 shortlist from an all-time record number of category entries.

Putting LCA at the centre of sustainable design
18 August, 2012
AHEC has published a comprehensive report on the environmental life cycle of delivering US hardwood lumber into overseas markets. The ISO-conforming report has received praise from independent LCA experts and is being used as the basis for innovative tools to integrate sustainability into product design. Rupert Oliver reports

AHEC announces new LCA breakthroughs
06 August, 2012
The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has announced latest key developments in its major timber life cycle assessment (LCA) project, including its technical design challenge for students at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London.

Modelling new business
07 July, 2012
Camilla Hair of SCA Timber Supply looks into technical data and its potential to unlock new opportunities for timber

AHEC teams up with Royal College of Art
18 June, 2012
The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) is looking to put hardwood centre stage once again at the London Design Festival through a chair design project with the Royal College of Art.

Art lovers see the benefits
09 June, 2012

Life cycle study gives timber the edge
26 May, 2012