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Despite an end apparently being in sight, Australia’s housing approvals continue to stack on the records, with the year-ended September 2015 being the twelfth successive monthly record. A…
Despite an end apparently being in sight, Australia’s housing approvals continue to stack on the records, with the year-ended September 2015 being the twelfth successive monthly record. A…
FWPA’s ongoing program to improve statistical and economic information available to members continues, is expanding and has recently been assessed against the data supplied by the Austra…
The headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained at an annualised 1.5% for the year-ended September 2015, reflecting Australia’s anaemic economic growth. For the last four quarters, year…
In November 2015 a series of seminars presented by Forest and Wood Products Australia’s WoodSolutions in conjunction with Planet Ark looked at current case studies and the future of wood and…
Drones could be about to transform forest conservation by monitoring forest regeneration projects in the tropics. Drone-based monitoring was tested recently as part of a study by the Unive…
Developed and built in-house, Scion’s new ‘DiscBot’ is a novel scanning technology designed to assess a range of wood properties that affect the quality of sawn timber and other end products…
While there is increasing concern about the danger posed by flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near forest fire fighting activities, the use of the technology by the firefighters thems…
While the construction industry today depends a great deal on the use of wood and wood products, researchers in Sweden may be able to change the entire landscape of construction via a unique 3D…