Structural Timber News

The Covid 19 pandemic presents unique challenges to all business sectors including construction. One of the most pressing difficulties is keeping up productivity on site while practising the social distancing measures as per government...

Offsite developer, Project Etopia has acquired self-build specialist Tribus Homes, which will see up to 200 new homes year produced at its manufacturing facility in Devon Project Etopia and self-build specialist, Tribus Homes formed...

The Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) project has welcomed Simon Dudley, interim chair of Homes England, as chair of the AIMCH stakeholder group. The £6.5 million AIMCH project is a collaboration...

Stirling Prize nominees call for structural timber to be excluded, while RIBA argues for more buildings to be covered Waugh Thistleton’s Dalston Works, the world’s largest CLT building. The 33m-high apartment block in Hackney was...

A new campaign, ‘Homes for Heroes’ has been launched to create 100,000 affordable homes manufactured in British factories Homes for Heroes is a national alliance of housing associations, public figures, business leaders and leading...

A prominent umbrella group for the built environment professions, chaired by former RIBA president Stephen Hodder, has cautioned the government against taking action which would prohibit the use of timber as a structural material in buildings...

BoKlok UK, the sustainable, quality low-cost home provider, jointly owned by Skanska and IKEA, has announced that it has appointed leading technology-driven modular housing manufacturer TopHat, to help deliver part of its first product offering...

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Due to the ongoing concerns regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisers have taken the important but difficult decision to postpone the Structural Timber Awards ceremony/dinner, to respect the social distancing protocols that are...

KTE, based in Glenrothes in the “Kingdom of Fife” specialise in providing cost effective, high quality, and accurate Trussed rafter roofs, Easi-Joist metal web and Steico I joist floor solutions for timber frame manufacturers, developers,...

Insulation specialist Actis has joined the RIBA CPD Providers Network with the aim of helping architects combat thermal bridging and achieve optimal energy efficiency. Actis’ much praised and popular CPD on addressing the performance gap with...

Offsite construction company, Green Unit, has installed a 109sq m eco-build at the site of the Roman Vindolanda fort in Northumberland. Green Unit’s entire offsite build process for the stunning, low carbon, modular ARC II building took...