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While we hear a lot about self-driving cars, a future with autonomous trucks could be a reality a lot sooner than we thought – and lead to a major shake up of the transportation industry. …
While we hear a lot about self-driving cars, a future with autonomous trucks could be a reality a lot sooner than we thought – and lead to a major shake up of the transportation industry. …
Eco Concrete Ideas, an architectural concrete manufacturer, has used paper 3D printing technology to develop Morpheus, a two-meter concrete bench cast in a mold made from 4,000 layers of re…
For the first time, scientists have been successful in measuring the processes by which an entire forest “breathes”. A team led by Richard Wehr and Scott Saleska at the Universi…
Imagine being able to accurately predict where forest fires might strike — even in the most remote locations — using freely accessible data from a NASA satellite. This is the work of Quazi Hass…
The latest wave of Australian consumer tracking research shows an increase in the number of respondents who prefer wood – and also confirms the forest and wood products industry’s reliabili…
Dominated by windows, doors and posts and beams (including LVL & I Beams), Australia’s imports of Builders’ Joinery continue to rise, valued at AUD473.6M for the year-ended June 2016.…
Australia’s unemployment rate sat at 5.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis, at the end of July 2016, returning to its lowest point of the last three years. 725,500 people were out of work (among t…
Australia’s log exports were valued at AUD441.4M for the year-ended June 2016, up a very large 41.1% on the prior year. After woodchips, logs are the second-highest value wood product export…