Structural Timber News

The Better Timber Buildings conference, which will take place on 27 November in London, is inspired by TRADA's long-standing commitment to upskilling the timber industry and improving timber's competitive advantage. It is...

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Goldsmith Street in Norwich, designed by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley, as the winner of the 2019 RIBA Stirling Prize. The annual RIBA Stirling Prize, presented since...

Protect Membranes, UK producer of roofing and construction membranes, has introduced Protect VB200, a reflective air and vapour control layer with an integral self-sealing adhesive backing, designed for use in either flat warm roof construction...

Experts from the structural timber sector will come together on 6 November 2019 in London to address timber's use in the construction industry as a versatile and natural material undergoing a contemporary design resurgence. Timber Talks...

Put it down to perfect timing, with the heightened interest in offsite technology, combined with the abundance of outstanding projects and it is easy to see why the 2019 Structural Timber Awards surpassed all previous events in terms of the...

EGGER implements a new, globally valid standard for the transmission of information along the supply chain of wood and wood-based products. The ISO 38200 provides a globally valid, internationally recognised standard for the product...

Rarely does an event get such overwhelmingly positive feedback in its launch year but Offsite Expo certainly exceeded expectations. The positive feedback was universal - exhibitors, visitors and speakers all agreed this was the offsite event...

Swedish construction firm NCC has won a contract worth around $42m (SEK 415m) to build the country’s biggest timber commercial office building in Uppsala, next to the city’s Central Station. The seven-storey building called...

Donaldson Timber Engineering’s Cramlington site in the UK has upgraded their press equipment to new state of the art pressing technology which replaced forty-year-old equipment. The new equipment is already saving considerable production...

Offsite Expo has been designed by leading industry experts to create an interactive programme and stimulating exhibitor line-up. It will showcase offsite best practice, maximise knowledge transfer and facilitate collaborative opportunities to...

The UK has a magnificent heritage of timber architecture dating back to the thirteenth century – the team at B&K Structures are now building on this legacy by developing ground-breaking offsite manufactured hybrid timber and steel...

Project: IQL Pavilion Contract value: £2.4bn Client: International Quarter London (IQL) Main contractor: Lendlease Substructure: O’Keefe Superstructure: B&K Temp services: Wingate Logistics: Clipfine Façade: FGS M&E: ESG Lifts: Kone...

Scotland Excel has launched its £1.5bn New Build Residential Construction contract to help accelerate the delivery of 50,000 new affordable homes. Scotland Excel joined forces with 11 Scottish councils to create the four-year framework...