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Approvals of new dwellings seem to have come off the boil in recent months, with year-end data showing that 228,308 separate dwellings were approved in 2016, down 2.8% on 2015. But perhaps mos…
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Paul Morgan, a building design student at Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute has taken out the first Dangerous Design prize of $500 cash – and is in for a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize or the s…
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Australia’s total log exports totaled 3.918 million m3 for the year-ended November 2016, recording a 26.1% increase on the prior year. Exports for both coniferous (softwood) and broadleav…
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Demonstrating the variability of global markets, prices for sawlogs in Europe fell in the September quarter, while US prices generally rose in the September and December quarters. Despite…
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Reported in December, Australia recorded its first negative quarter of economic growth in almost six years, with September quarter 2016 seeing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recorded at -0.…
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Falling to 591,029 m3 for the year-ended November 2016, imports of saw softwood declined 17.2% on the prior year. The majority of the decline was booked by ‘dressed’ products, imports of whic…
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Sales of domestically produced sawn softwood continued their strength n November, pushing year-end sales to 3,112,044 m3, up a very strong 18.2% on the prior year. The increasing annual sal…
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Although the rate of growth has slowed in recent months, the value of imported Builders’ Joinery rose 3.5% in the year-ended November 2016, reaching AUD463.742 million. Despite this, month…