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While TRADA eagerly anticipated the low energy, low carbon timber and hybrid timber designs submitted by student and graduate teams as part of the Riverside Sunderland: University Design Challenge that ended last Friday, our university engagement manager Tabitha Binding compiled...

Timber is not a material commonly used in large-scale office refurbishments in central London, but the Republic Masterplan at East India Dock demonstrates how it can successfully transform a couple of tired 1990s office blocks into high quality sustainable and...

TRADA’s online programme Learn with TRADA Live has gone from strength to strength since its initial launch in January this year. Almost a thousand people have signed up so far, proving that the online learning space – which has been...

A brand new release from the 2020/2021 Industry Yearbook Online. Peter Wilson highlights issues facing many rural communities in the UK and how an innovative construction approach might address these challenges.

Timber Development UK (TDUK) is setting out to improve on the strong sustainability record of the industry in recent years by launching a new cross-sector Sustainability Committee.

The Wood Information Sheet (WIS) Timbers – their properties and uses, which sets out the properties and uses of 140 timber species used in the UK, has received major updates.

The Netherlands’ first fully ecological school De Verwondering incorporates Accoya wood, most notably in a unique pedestrian bridge that guides students to the building.

The Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry and call for evidence on the sustainability of the built environment. We need your help to get timbers’ voice heard.

In the last ten years King’s Cross – the 27 hectare neighbourhood to the north of the railway station – has been transformed to create a new part of the city, with new businesses, restaurants and a lively cultural scene....

The Wood Awards: Excellence in British Architecture and Product Design has now launched its 2021 call for entries. Anyone involved in a UK-based wood project is invited to enter and has until 25 June to submit their applications. There is...

Last month, the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) announced CO2nstruct Zero, a cross-industry change programme to drive carbon out of all parts of the construction sector, from manufacturing and design to construction and operation of assets. Part of the campaign seeks...

Riverside Sunderland: University Design Challenge, the interdisciplinary university challenge to design timber housing which meet our future needs, requires a quantity surveyor (QS) or cost manager to be fully integrated into the teams’ planning and design process from day one....

The climate emergency is already having an impact on every inhabited continent. Within the construction industry, we have our own work to do.

A brand new release from the 2020/2021 Industry Yearbook Online. Danny Hopkin and Michael Spearpoint provide a summary of a compliance road map for the structural fire safety design of mass timber buildings in England.

Six years ago a group of young students from Winchester had a brainwave – to design a community café and cycle workshop on a new cycle path which had just been established close to the town. The students were at...

Are you introducing timber as a material into your structural or civil engineering course? Would you like to access resources and a new publication that will give you, your university and your students a head start when incorporating timber into...

New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) has announced that Professor Robert Hairstans has joined as Founding Director of its Centre for Advanced Timber Technology (CATT).

Robert Hairstans assesses how further education must adapt to the needs of the industry amid a pandemic.