Search Results: 'Wood for Good'

Rising prices, higher profile
16 December, 2006

Olympics will create legacy for timber
16 December, 2006

Opportunity on an Olympic scale
25 November, 2006

Training is in everyone's interests
28 October, 2006

Cashing in on carbon credits
14 October, 2006

Education for long-term benefi
30 September, 2006
It could just be me, but the pace at the moment seems incredibly quick, with the summer holiday period ending, creating an immediate demand to catch up on everything, now that most of the timber world is back in harness. The kids are back at school, having been exhorted by their reports to do better. Everyone's fired up and raring to go.

A bright future for timber merchants
02 September, 2006

The terminator sets the tone
05 August, 2006

Ten Albert Halls' growth a day
24 June, 2006

Positive change
10 June, 2006
John Dye is president of the Timber Packaging and Pallet Confederation (TIMCON)

Firm foundations to build on
27 May, 2006
Timber got some great publicity last week smack bang in the middle of London.

Olympics co-operation is just the beginning
13 May, 2006
TRADA’s Andrew Abbott told the London Softwood Club that the industry had to co-operate much more actively to challenge competing building materials for a slice of the Olympic action. Correct. But it goes much further than the Olympics.Every week concrete and steel industry bodies deliver seminars to architects, sit on esoteric committees of a host of building related bodies, write for the trade press, produce technical reports and so on. We do some of this, but we are a long way from having the representative depth of these sectors. It’s instructive to ask why?Yes, they have more money and structures more conducive to providing the resources and policy an industry needs. But, above all, they have the perception of a unified voice speaking for a unified industry. Do we in the wood industry have the same? No. And if we had a blank sheet of paper we would probably not structure our representation the way it is. Ideally we’d have one organisation delivering all the representation an industry needs: political, promotional and technical. Currently these three strands are divided between various trade associations, wood. for good and TRADA. But rather than examining whether this is the the best approach for us, we should get on and make sure that it is.Co-operation around the Olympics provides a model we can take forward. The skill sets in industry trade associations can deliver political influence; wood. for good has shown it can get to architects, specifiers and contractors; and TRADA can deliver the technical support to underpin the conversations we need to have with customers.If there’s one thing we lack, it’s resource. Andrew urged everyone to back the bodies that can deliver the change needed to improve the industry’s bottom line. To do that it needs to look on its representative bodies as an investment. With political influence and generic promotion based on fact, wood will easily win the race to be the number one choice building and fabrication material. That will provide a long-term return for our industry and the planet.John White is chief executive of the Timber Trade Federation

Packing a punch at Interbuild
29 April, 2006

First signs that spring has sprung
01 April, 2006
Many of us get maudlin in the winter due to the lack of sunlight. This year, according to feedback we’ve had, a lack of orders has deepened readers’ seasonal blues.

A critical case for conversion
21 January, 2006

The power of the press
07 January, 2006

A material made for marketing
07 January, 2006