Plastic’s resilience is one of its greatest attributes, but it’s also one of its biggest drawbacks: it’s hard to break, but it’s virtually impossible to breakdown. But what if we could have it…

Timber buildings really can be potentially more cost effective to build. New Australian research supports the case and the timber development sector is educating the rest of the industry. T…

The Coromandel region in New Zealand was subjected to a severe storm in 1995. Analysis of the relevant data by Land Care Research has provided a valuable opportunity to assess the type, extent…

Singapore-based Asia Plantation Capital has applied for a patent on a new system of computerised aerial drones, linked to a central control system and programmed to monitor their plantatio…

Planting trees is back-breaking, repetitive work — but if two students from the Canadian University of Victoria have their way, robots will assist tree planters in the future. Third-year el…

The role of thermal mass in residential design is apparently simple, yet in practice it is frequently poorly understood and applied, especially in timber design and construction. While it i…

FWPA invites the submission of detailed research proposals for projects commencing from 1 March 2016 addressing published FWPA industry research priorities. Details of current research …