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Timber frame sector ready to scale up capacity
21 March, 2017
The offsite timber frame industry could “easily” scale up its capacity to 150,000 units per year to meet demand for new housing, a Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI) organised meeting at Westminster has heard.

Onside with offsite
20 February, 2017
The UK house building sector finished 2016 on a high and offsite manufacture is in the news. Sally Spencer reports

Expo extras
20 September, 2016
Timber Expo 2016 has a host of added attractions, from linked UK Construction Week events, to awards, seminars and a beer festival

Building growth
19 August, 2016
Timber frame now accounts for 27.4% of the UK newbuild market and the industry is confident it will continue to grow. Keren Fallwell reports

Shaping the future of offsite
24 February, 2016
With the government setting a target of 400,000 new homes by 2020, Alex Goodfellow, group managing director of Stewart Milne Timber Systems, considers how offsite manufacture could help

Rosy Future for Timber Frame
20 August, 2015
The timber frame sector is benefiting from the upturn in construction activity, with market share of new build housing now nudging 25%. Sally Spencer reports.

Housing futures
20 April, 2015
For this month’s Face-to-Face interview TTJ group editor Stephen Powney talks to Oliver Novakovic, technical and innovation director at the UK’s largest housebuilder Barratt Developments

Eco-town timber build begins
11 December, 2014
Timber systems have begun to arrive at the site of the UK’s first eco-town with plans for deliveries within weeks of the initial 94 homes at NW Bicester.

Housing upturn boosts timber frame
19 November, 2014
Housebuilding has hit its highest level since the economic slide of 2007 and more builders are turning to timber to meet demand, according to new figures and industry sources.

Stewart Milne opens doors to industry
11 August, 2014
Stewart Milne Timber Systems has organised a RIBA-accredited seminar and factory tour of its Oxfordshire site to offer insight into how housing providers, architects and builders can take advantage of timber frame.

Going to eco town
16 July, 2014
Stewart Milne Timber Systems’ Sigma II system has been selected for the UK’s first zero carbon ‘eco town’

Timber’s pitch to parliament
05 April, 2014
A roundtable policy debate at the House of Commons revealed construction industry support for timber but the MPs were less vocal.

Stewart Milne timber frame division reports £14m new business wins
04 February, 2014
In a week of contrasting fortunes for the UK timber frame manufacturing sector, Stewart Milne Timber Systems has posted an upbeat trading statement with news of £14m new business wins.

Great expectations
05 October, 2013
Improved construction activity has helped boost the health of the UK timber frame sector. Stephen Powney reports

Stewart Milne welcomes energy target delay
04 October, 2013
Stewart Milne Timber Systems has backed moves by the Scottish government to delay the introduction of energy efficiency targets for the construction industry.

Milne expands team on positive market signs
01 July, 2013
Confidence in the construction market has led one of the largest UK timber frame manufacturers to expand its business development team and appoint a new board director.

Timber frame boss makes fabric first plea
03 May, 2013
Stewart Milne Timber Systems group managing director Alex Goodfellow has called on the government to pursue a “fabric first” path to deliver carbon efficiency in the UK’s new homes.

Timber frame company launches joinery division
15 February, 2013
UK timber frame manufacturing giant Stewart Milne Timber Systems has launched a doorsets and stairs offering in a bid to become a one-stop shop for clients.

Timber frame hospital erected
06 February, 2013
A new hospital in Sunderland is being constructed using a pre-insulated closed panel timber frame wall system from Stewart Milne Timber Systems.

The only way is timber
12 January, 2013
Stewart Milne Timber Systems’ Sigma II Build System was chosen for one of the UK’s largest zero carbon housing projects, in Basildon, Essex