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Emphasising the pressures in the Australian market, sales of sawn softwood were down 5% year-ending July 2015, compared with the year-ending July 2014. Over the same period, sawn softwood i…
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Perhaps Australia’s largest collective investment and certainly its most discussed market, is residential housing. There are plenty of pundits, commentators and self-interested voice…
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Even as housing approvals data confirmed a very strong 13.6% year-on-year growth for the year-ended July 2015, latest information demonstrated that the RBA’s strategy to reduce the risk of…
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A superb example of adventurous design and the use of timber in contemporary architecture, the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne was awarded the WoodSolutions Overa…
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FWPA’s RD&E program invests in projects in three areas of Market Access and Development, Wood Products and Sustainability & Resources. The projects and their resultant outcomes a…
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FWPA had submitted three Proposals for Change (PFC) for consideration by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) and each was successful in being incorporated into the draft version of t…
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The new Standard, AS 1720.5 Timber Structures – Nailplated Truss Design, has now been published. The development of AS 1720.5 was coordinated by FWPA and jointly funded and developed by Pr…
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A recent study compared the life cycle environmental impacts of two multilevel residential buildings built in Australia, one of timber and one of concrete. The scope ranged from the extract…