Search Results: 'Wood Awards'

Finding that feel-good factor
17 December, 2012
A hardwood importer recently summed up 2012 to TTJ as the year that “OK became the new norm”. Trade was better than in the darkest days of recession, but still wasn’t floating anybody’s boats.

Wood Awards reward timber industry
10 December, 2012
The Wood Awards celebrate timber’s diversity, says Michael Morrison, chairman of the Wood Awards judges

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.

Innovation in abundance
29 September, 2012
There is a saying that you know you’re getting old when you start admiring other people’s hanging baskets, but for me it’s their fences.

Foundations for a brighter future
17 September, 2012
UK construction may be some considerable way off peak fitness, but all the evidence still points to a vibrant, vigorous future for the timber building sector.

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.

Share in a cup of French cheer
04 August, 2012
Of course, the credit crunch and seemingly interminable recession, are not all in the mind. We’re not imagining the boarded-up shops, the company administrations, mothballed construction sites and the vitriol directed at the seemingly unrepentant bankers, still burning us off at the lights in their bonus-funded Porsches.

Industry gears up for W12
07 July, 2012
This year’s W12 includes the new Working with Design show. W12 exhibition director Angela McGowan explains

Join the Wood Awards bandwagon
12 May, 2012
The Wood Awards benefit the whole timber industry, says Canada Wood managing director John Park

Advancing on three fronts
28 April, 2012
It's been a week of positive developments, says Mike Jeffree

Timber Expo seminar programme revamped
14 April, 2012
Changes to this year's Timber Expo seminars are aimed at attracting more construction professionals. TRADA marketing manager Rupert Scott explains

First whispers of green shoots
03 March, 2012
The timber industry has reasons to be optimistic, says Mike Jeffree

We need to inspire our customers – and ourselves
03 March, 2012
Efforts to promote timber's' benefits need industry input and support, says David Hopkins of Wood for Good