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Timber Construction and Building Height Planning Controls – The unintended consequences of the Planning System. For the property development industry, the benefits of using timber build…
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Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) invites industry members to attend launch events across the country for The Ultimate Renewable™ – a new brand that aims to build social licence for o…
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Engineering students from across Australia have been benefiting from exposure to the most upto-the-minute technical developments and innovations in timber construction from across the…
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Latest data shows that New Zealand’s total harvest remains at near record levels, while somewhat counter-intuitively, Sawnwood production has slumped. In 2018, the reported total harves…
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Always a little suspect, China’s economic growth was reported at 6.4%, year-on-year in the March quarter of 2019. Growth was above expectations and was driven by a solid increase in industri…
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Modest though it may be, the 0.8% rise in Retail Sales recorded in February 2019 is very welcome news for a sector that has been under serious pressure for much of the last few years. Whether the r…
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Australia’s core inflation was an annualized 1.4% over the year-ended March 2019, but headline inflation was a disastrous 0% in the March quarter. The result was all the more challenging bec…
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Small it may be, but February’s rise in the value of housing finance is very welcome news. It may be too soon, but with the total value of loans up 2.7% on January’s low, it is conceivable that hous…