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News
Forest & Wood Products Australia (FWPA) has released a new report, “Housing for the Future and the Contribution of the Timber Industry“, as part of its Statistics and Econo…
FWPA
Report
The FWPA Statistics & Economics Program Webinar Series, held in May and June 2024, focused on housing affordability and housing supply issues, and how the construction and timber indus…
FWPA
Webinar
This is webinar is the first in a series of three. You can learn more about webinar 2 and webinar 3 via this link. You can also listen to the recording of webinar 2 via this link. In our first episode…
FWPA
Report
The forest industry in Australia contributes to jobs and economic activity in many communities. During the last decade, there has been little information on how the industry is changing in d…
FWPA
Report
The aim of this project was to validate the assumption used within the Australian Standard AS1720.1 for calculating compression perpendicular to grain for common timber species and develo…
FWPA
Report
Implications of NCC 2016 Changes to Deemed-To-Satisfy (DTS) for Mid-Rise Timber Buildings on Supply of Sawn Softwood Timber. The aims of this project were to investigate the Australian tim…
FWPA
Report
While structural analysis software is used regularly for timber used in domestic residential applications, there has been a lack of knowledge on suitable software for non-residential or c…
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Report
Disposing of waste H2F-treated offcuts is a concern for many frame and truss manufacturers. This project analysed the waste disposal and recycling problems of H2F blue-pine consumers (i.…