FWPA
Webinar
Wednesday 8th April, 2015, presented by Andrew Dunn, TDA (NSW). A recently completed research investigated the cost of timber building versus traditional design for 4 building types, indu…
FWPA
Report
This project developed realistic timber costing information for building professionals in the non-housing building sector. It compared the cost of constructing four commercial buildin…
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On Sunday April 12th across Australia, award-winning architect Peter Maddison, host of Grand Designs Australia, will enter the living rooms of hundreds of thousands of people, telling the…
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Having trended steadily downwards over several years, until the end of 2013, sales of softwood poles, have seen a more than year-long renaissance, growing by 19.85% for the year to end Januar…
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Sales of domestically produced, treated and seasoned sawn structural pine climbed throughout 2014, setting new monthly records along the way. By the end of January 2015, full year sales tot…
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Since slumping to a record low of just USD509 in mid-February, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which measures the price of bulk dry shipping, has steadily increased to USD568 at the close on 10th Ma…
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Australia’s economic growth, measured by Gross Domestic Product, (GDP) declined to 2.5% for the year to the end of December 2014. Seasonally adjusted December Quarter GDP was just 0.5%, con…
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As growth in retail sales slowed across the Australian economy in the fourth quarter of 2014, key industries from the forestry and wood products sector’s perspective grew more strongly, con…