Search Results: 'Timber Expo'

Putting timber on the map
19 November, 2017
On the front cover of this issue is the timber-resplendent Hastings Pier, a worthy winner of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize – UK architecture’s highest award. It really is a fantastic project and is great advert for the use of timber.

Geared up and ready to go
20 September, 2017
Structural Timber Association chief executive Andrew Carpenter says the combination of market conditions, political will and housing need mean the potential for timber-based construction in the UK has rarely been better

UK mills on investment trail
20 September, 2016
There have been several different announcements on the UK mill scene these last few weeks.

The training game
21 June, 2016
A new approach to training is needed to ensure the timber industry gets enough new recruits for its future development, says TRADA marketing and membership services manager Rupert Scott

A plan comes together
20 October, 2015
“I love it when a plan comes together”. So goes the often quoted line from a certain 1980s TV show.

Timber industry on the acquisition trail
21 September, 2015
Some of the largest UK timber sector companies have been on the acquisition trail this last month.

A new united force
20 April, 2015
I spent some of my Easter this year digging post holes in the garden for a new run of closeboard panel fencing. It's a difficult task at the best of times, made even harder by the need to dig through more than 1ft of concrete. The steady thunk of my 17lb digging bar hitting the concrete left me nursing copious blister wounds and must have been lovely for the neighbours. One neighbour took pity and gave me a glass of beer for my troubles.

The voice of the timber Industry
20 January, 2015

Industry recovery on show
19 November, 2014
The timber industry has emerged from the recession with a new energy, says TTJ managing editor Sally Spencer

Design and technology solutions to close the gap
06 June, 2014
Darren Richards, managing director of Timber Expo looks at the issue of improving thermal performance and eliminating cold bridging

Time to push at an opening door
17 May, 2014
Industry initiatives are raising timber's profile, says TTJ editor Mike Jeffree

Industry sum is greater than its parts
21 September, 2013
The industry should pull together to actively promote timber, says Liz Richards, marketing director at Timbmet

The future is bright for timber frame
10 August, 2013
There are some good news stories for construction, and timber frame in particular, says Andrew Carpenter, chief executive of the UK Timber Frame Association

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

Talking up timber
12 November, 2012
When it comes to promoting timber, it’s good to talk, says Sarah Farmer of English Woodlands Timber

Resistance to change holds timber back
13 October, 2012
Keith Fryer hails the recent Timber Industry Accord but says it’s only the starting point

Show puts timber on construction stage
17 September, 2012
Next week’s Timber Expo aims to spread timber’s message even wider, says Darren Richards, managing director of organiser Radar Communication

Technical knowledge adds value
01 September, 2012
Greater use of technical data would encourage the use of timber, says Stephen King, sales and marketing director at SCA Timber Supply

Pride, passion and confidence
01 September, 2012
Events over coming weeks blow one old criticism of the timber industry well and truly out of the water.

Accord strengthens industry representation
23 July, 2012
Wider co-operation gives industry better value from its trade associations, says TTJ chief executive John White