Search Results: 'Wood Awards'

Gorbals chills kept at bay
14 December, 2013
TTJ Awards finalist Skaala Windows & Doors is manufacturing and installing £6.5m-worth of windows and balcony doors at a Glasgow housing association development. Sally Spencer reports.

Getting into the shop window
02 December, 2013
Want to see the modern, forward thrusting face of timber use in the UK? Just pick up a copy of this year’s stunning Wood Awards results supplement – and you have your own personal one tucked into this edition of TTJ.

Timber in the mainstream
02 December, 2013
Bishop Edward King Chapel won top honours in this year’s Wood Awards – and there was plenty more that earned the judges’ praise. Keren Fallwell reports

Getting into the shop window
02 December, 2013
Want to see the modern, forward thrusting face of timber use in the UK? Just pick up a copy of this year’s stunning Wood Awards results supplement – and you have your own personal one tucked into this edition of TTJ.

Trade should capitalise on Wood Awards publicity
01 December, 2013
Timber suppliers to winning and highly commended entries in this year’s Wood Awards say the industry should capitalise even more on the publicity and credbility the event generates for use of timber in construction and furniture.

New push on timber sector consolidation follows WWA-BWF merger
26 November, 2013
Wood Window Alliance (WWA) chairman Sean Parnaby said he hopes the merger of the group with the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) will start a “domino effect” of consolidation in the timber sector.

Bishop Edward King Chapel wins Wood Awards gold
20 November, 2013
The glulam-framed Bishop Edward King Chapel in Oxford has won Gold in this year’s Wood Awards.

Timber comes out tops in Structural Awards
20 November, 2013
Timber features strongly among the winning projects in this year's Structural Awards organised by the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Wood Awards winners revealed this week
18 November, 2013
It’s November and the UK’s biggest awards event for wood in architecture – the Wood Awards – is preparing to unveil this year’s winners

Timber Expo: English Woodlands Timber success
05 October, 2013
English Woodlands Timber had received enough enquiries by lunchtime on the first day to judge the show a success.

Grown in Britain buzz is building
21 September, 2013
The stunning trophies presented to the winners at last week's buoyant, buzzing TTJ Awards were sharp and modern. Appropriately so, as they showcased timber at the leading edge. They were made in a combination of ultra-durable modified Accoya and its MDF equivalent, Medite Tricoya. This, as our clearly impressed trophy sculptor Ray Winder pointed out, meant they would keep their futuristic looks even if winners left them outdoors as a garden feature.

Hardwood products on show at 100% Design
19 September, 2013
The Canadian wood products sector and the UK hardwood flooring industry have a strong presence at the 100% Design show this week.

James Latham scoops top prize at TTJ Awards
13 September, 2013
Broadcaster Huw Edwards read out hot news from the timber trade yesterday – James Latham winning the coveted Timber Trader of the Year title at the TTJ Awards 2013.

Continuity and commitment
07 September, 2013
Timber Expo may have a new home this year but at least one element will remain familiar – the presence of the Irish pavilion. Sally Spencer reports

TRADA talks timber
07 September, 2013
TRADA’s Timber Talks programme at this year’s Timber Expo aims to meet specifiers’ large appetite for information on building with wood.

The essential selection
07 September, 2013
As Timber Expo gears up for its third show, event director Loretta Sales picks out some of this year’s highlights.

Step up for a show of unity
07 September, 2013
A team of Swiss engineers is currently putting together a spectacular, 7.7m-high cross-laminated US tulipwood structure outside London's world-renowned Tate Modern gallery. Comprising a series of interlocking flights of stairs, it forms part of the London Design Festival and is the American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) latest dramatic showpiece project at the annual event to promote the potential of US hardwoods.

Awards reflect rising ambition
10 August, 2013
This year’s Wood Awards show that timber is accepted and exceptional. Here we highlight some of the shortlisted entries.

Wood Awards wows them
10 August, 2013
Prepare to be wowed! That was TTJ's tweet to flag up its first online story on the seriously impressive 2013 UK Wood Awards shortlist. The subsequent mass outbreak of retweets showed that readers most certainly were. In fact 'wowed' barely covered the effusive expressions of enthusiasm about the entries for what must now rank as the best known, and arguably the best, competition for use of timber in construction, interiors and furniture design.

Timber on Structural Awards shortlist
06 August, 2013
Projects featuring timber have been shortlisted in the Institution of Structural Engineers’ annual awards.