Search Results: 'Wood for Good'

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.

Seeing the wood from the trees
29 November, 2012
It was the government’s worst nightmare. Dealing with obstreperous opponents in the Commons and the slings and arrows of prime minister’s questions was one thing. Facing the antagonism of the mass ranks of steely-eyed middle England was something else entirely. This was opposition of a different magnitude – and it was, of course, what ministers faced over their idea to sell off the Forestry Commission’s English woodlands.

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

Spread the word on timber’s qualities
27 October, 2012
Concerns about formaldehyde in wood-based panels are misguided, says Mike Botting, editor of TTJ sister magazine Wood Based Panels International

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.

Gibson strikes a chord for Europe
18 August, 2012
It’s 18 months from now, 7.30am on an ordinary working day at a timber importer and distributor somewhere in the UK. An artic has just pulled up fresh from the port laden with plywood. A fork lift is packing a box truck with a load of mixed hardwoods for the first deliveries. Inside the warehouse, staff are checking inventory, drinking that first mug of tea. Nothing seems untoward.

London 2012 – a lasting legacy for timber?
18 August, 2012
Will timber benefit long-term from the success of the Olympic Park, asks Geoff Arnold, managing director of Pinewood Structures

Olympics congratulations to the timber industry
04 August, 2012
The Olympic project shows what can be done when the timber industry combines its talents, says Peter Bonfield

Engineering a healthy future
07 July, 2012
After I and the hole where my appendix had been had spent a month there, the nurses at Pembury hospital knew far more than before about engineered wood and the buildings built with it. To be honest, perhaps, more than they needed.

LCAs the eco ace in the pack
26 May, 2012

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

Wood Technology Society stronger than ever
28 April, 2012
The WTS is benefiting from being part of a larger, well-funded organisation, says Jim Coulson

Making a mark at Ecobuild
14 April, 2012

Industry training requires industry approach
14 April, 2012
The first timber industry qualifications have been developed and the industry needs to work together to ensure the momentum is maintained, says Dave Campbell of the British Woodworking Federation

Timber industry must use, or lose, new NVQs
31 March, 2012
If take-up of the new NVQs is too slow, funding will be lost. Martin James of Didac explains

Timber is made for Ecobuild
17 March, 2012
Ecobuild is timber's shop front for the construction industry, says Keith Fryer

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