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Australian designers are being challenged to use wood and wood products in attractive and innovative ways as part of the annual Dangerous Designs competition run by FWPA’s WoodSolutions ar…
Australian designers are being challenged to use wood and wood products in attractive and innovative ways as part of the annual Dangerous Designs competition run by FWPA’s WoodSolutions ar…
Note: the below information has been reviewed and changed 18/11/2019 In just one hour, Australian softwood plantations can grow enough timber to create a nine-storey building’s worth of en…
Timber is being used instead of conventional materials in 21 substantial building projects, from government housing to hotels and offices, thanks to the hard work of FWPA’s Mid-rise Adviso…
Twenty-eight emerging leaders have graduated from FWPA’s pilot industry leadership program, For Our Future – and provided strong positive feedback on its value and impact. Comments from p…
It is exciting times for tall wooden buildings in today’s cities. City population growth, space availability and infrastructure pressures are contributing to the need for innovative buil…
Forest managers will be able to gauge the likely effect of climate change on growing conditions in their specific areas with a new interactive online tool developed by the CSIRO with funding f…
Across Australia, award-winning architect Peter Maddison, host of Grand Designs Australia, is entering the living rooms and devices of hundreds of thousands of people, with news about the…
A new construction method developed by Swiss engineers is using robotic arms to fabricate and assemble the wooden parts of buildings so geometrically complex they would previously have bee…