AHEC collaborates with Alison Brooks Architects and Arup for 2016 London Design Festival The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the leading international trade association for the American hardwood industry, has announced its ...
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The UK Timber Frame Association of Alloa, Scotland, cStructural Timber Association (STA) since late September. The appropriate plans had already been announced in May. STA says the new name reflects the increasing diversification in its ...
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The Austrian company Johann Offner has acquired a 74.9% holding in the cross laminated timber producer KLH Massivholz. Secrecy was agreed regarding the purchase price. The remaining 25.1% of shares remain in the ownership of Christian ...
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The Russian company Ladozhsky DSK reports that it is currently setting up an integrated timber industry complex for producing cross-laminated timber, gluelam beams, and prefabricated houses in Avrovo in the Leningrad region at a cost of ...
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Timber build specialist B&K Structures has supplied cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels for the construction of a London school gym and three classroom blocks. The modernisation work at Preston Manor School was undertaken by Kier ...
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Superior disaster resilience of new high tech engineered timber products are being touted at a world timber conference being held Auckland next week. More than 500 timber professionals from all over the world will gather at the Skycity ...
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THE construction industry will be able to count on the supply of plantation softwood timber increasing by about 27 per cent over the next 20-30 years. But the volume of plantation hardwood for similar and higher value use will lag far ...
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Stora Enso is to supply one of the largest wooden roofs in Finland to cover what will be Europe’s largest car showroom. The 50, 000m² roof for the Sunny Car Centre in Hämeenlinna will be produced at Stora Enso’s ...
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A new generation of highrise commercial and institutional wood buildings are planned for B. C. In the next couple of years. The buildings will feature engineered wood products, such as cross laminated timber (CLT), laminated veneer lumber ...
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ELEANOR HALL: Let's hear now from the South Australian academic who is proposing a radical rethink of building construction in Australia in order to reduce the country's carbon footprint. Professor Steffen Lehmann proposes that instead of ...
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