Our WoodWorks conference is now just over a month away and registrations are pouring in.  Early bird rates finish this Friday so this is your last chance to take advantage of...

From the team at Logic Group: Recently we were given the chance to truly test our V-Quest comparative analysis tool as a service. The project, Five 5 storey apartment blocks,...

Check this out, if this doesn’t make you want to go back to kindergarten again, what would? The project brief was to create a unique early childhood centre that would...

The new building at Taranaki Cathedral will be a centre for peace and reconciliation; called Te Whare Hononga – The House That Binds. The single storied structure consists of a...

Running in early November, our 7th annual WoodWorks mass timber conference brings together leaders in engineered wood design and construction. Mass timber technology developments, including LVL and CLT, prefabrication and...

World’s Tallest Timber Residential Building: Hear first-hand from the Danish Architect Places at the Mid-Rise Wood Construction event hosting Enlai Hooi, Global Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen, are...

FPInnovations launches its new Modelling Guide for Timber Structures. FPInnovations is a Canadian organisation performing state-of-the-art research, developing advanced technologies, and delivering innovative solutions. Their new guide aims to reduce...

Construction firms from Japan and Australia have started work on a 182-meter-high skyscraper in central Sydney in what is planned to be the world’s tallest hybrid-timber building using an eco-friendly...

On an official visit to Dunedin, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took the time to visit the Otago Polytechnic, for a tour around the building site of what will eventually become...

Join TDS for a full day design workshop to share expert knowledge and meet likeminded colleagues Feature Topics Adoption of the new Detailed Connection Design to the NZS AS 1720.1...

The Forest Owners Association President is predicting massive increases in the worldwide demand for engineered timber construction. Grant Dodson has told delegates at the Forest Institute Conference in Auckland today...

A different kind of mass timber is thinner and stronger. The Black and White Building is a future office structure in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood that started construction this summer under...

This week the American Wood Council issued the first-ever ANSI accredited version of the Fire Design Specification for Wood Construction (2022). This document has been updated and expanded through a...

WoodWorks NZ followers now have access to premium content on the Wood-Works USA websites. To take advantage of the free access to events and content use the code: FreeNZ Click on...

Taranakipine are leaders in the design, manufacture, and marketing of engineered timber products. Established 40 years ago, Taranakipine holds a significant position in both NZ and overseas timber products markets...

Launceston’s $30 million, 28-metre-high timber building is set to become the most sustainable and carbon-positive office in Tasmania. Encompassing 500m2 of Cusp CLT, it also aims to be the first...

Government Law Changes To Enable Faster Consenting, More Prefabs, Comes Into Force; from Hon Dr Megan Woods, Minister for Building and Construction. BuiltReady scheme will streamline consenting for offsite manufacturers...

Update from the team involved in the Otago Polytechnic Trades Training Centre. This week the final LVL and CLT installation will take place in Zone 3 as well as the...

The award winning HomeGround building is the venue for a stand-alone Mass Timber Case Study seminar brought to you by Mid-Rise Wood. About this event A fantastic opportunity for those...

In the next four years, the world’s tallest residential building with a load-bearing structure in wood, will rise above the ridges in the Swiss city Winterthur, close to Zürich. The...

A team of prestigious architects and engineers, including Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), HOK and Buro Happold, has revealed plans for an ambitious new airport expansion for Zurich, Switzerland. The building will be primarily constructed from...

The past few years have seen tremendous interest in the development of mass timber buildings of increasing height, in urban settings, many of which are hybrid structures with other materials....

The Engco team are proud to have delivered the structural design on this exciting project. It is a benchmark project for the industry made possible by our specialist timber design...

An invisible coating that can “fireproof” wood has been invented by scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). With the popularity of mass engineered timber growing in the construction...

“TTW are proud to be part of the team who are bringing to life this world-leading sustainable tower that will become Atlassian‘s flagship home in Sydney. It’s an incredible hybrid timber...

A fantastic opportunity for those in the wood industry; architects, project teams and industry partners, to step inside this award winning Mass Timber building and learn more about the processes...

Mid-Rise Wood Construction is pleased to welcome Enlai Hooi, Global Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen, to share inspiring insights into the project and to discuss the opportunities for...

The New Zealand Timber Design Society (TDS) is happy to offer two conference support grants for the WoodWorks Conference, 8-9 November 2022, Rotorua, New Zealand. Successful recipients will receive financial assistance...

Auckland City Mission’s HomeGround development took home the Supreme Award at this year’s Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards. The complex, which is designed to give...

Hector Egger New Zealand has a unique opportunity for an intermediate/advanced Cadwork CAD/CAM technician to join their fast growing team in Central Otago. The successful applicant will be working in...