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Anecdotal evidence has been confirmed by the latest sawn softwood sales data, with total sales reaching 2.720 million m3 for the year-ended February 2016, up just 0.1% compared with the year…
Anecdotal evidence has been confirmed by the latest sawn softwood sales data, with total sales reaching 2.720 million m3 for the year-ended February 2016, up just 0.1% compared with the year…
Imports of sawn softwood totaled 681,331 m3 for the year-ended January 2016, up 5.3% compared with the year-ended January 2015. However, year-end imports peaked at 736,479 m3 in July 2015 an…
Feeding in to growing household consumption measured in the GDP data, Australia’s retail sales grew by 3.8% for the year-ended January 2016, measured on a seasonally adjusted basis. This co…
The future of economic activity is of course, always uncertain, including within it, items such as risk and the appetite for taking it. As a concept, uncertainty is unable to be observed direc…
It is time for Australia and New Zealand to jointly develop a longer term solution for timber design life and durability with a call for $12.5 million over five years from industry and governme…
Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was a satisfactory but unremarkable 3.0% in calendar year 2015, growing soundly from the 2.2% recorded for 2014. However, just below the surface, f…
The research aimed to obtain new data to inform opportunities to further improve the thermal efficiency of light-weight, timber framed, small to medium scaled buildings. The principle t…
Presented by Pollinate (market research) on Wednesday 16th March, 2016. This presentation reports the results of a recently completed FWPA funded project designed to understand the driv…