Nelson apartment project granted special housing status in 2019 is getting underway, and is hoped to be completed in under two years, barring unexpected Covid-19 delays. Vining Investment Properties director...

BRANZ would like to invite you to participate in an industry-wide survey on the uptake of engineered wood products in the New Zealand construction industry. You have been identified as...

Melbourne developer James Dibble is hoping to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber building in South Perth after submitting plans for a 183-metre apartment tower that would be three metres higher...

Vittorio Salvadori has a PhD in Timber Hybrid Buildings.  As part of  his PhD Research he surveyed and analysed more than 200 multi-storey timber-based buildings in the world, built between...

New Zealand’s leading specialist seismic engineering company, Tectonus has raised NZ$8 million in a recent funding round led by New Zealand deep-tech venture capital firm Pacific Channel. Other investors who...

WoodWorks sponsor, Techlam, are currently manufacturing components for the new NZ Artificial Limbs Society building in Burwood, Christchurch. We got some feedback from the team we’re working with on the...

Adam Strong has emerged in a new role as chief executive of Viridi Group, one of the “verticals” established by Kirk Tsihlis through his ambitious impact investment company TrueGreen. TrueGreen...

Shop Architects and BVN’s $1 billion tower for Australian tech company Atlassian has been approved. Billed as the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower when it was first unveiled in 2020,...

We are excited to announce the 2022 U.S. Wood Design Award winners—and to once again celebrate excellence in wood building design. The annual awards program charts the growing prevalence of...

In 2021, the Building for Climate Change team developed a proposed technical methodology for assessing the embodied carbon of new buildings in New Zealand. The proposed methodology has since been...

CIES Associate Professor Hamid Valipour has long been a man on a mission – a mission to reduce the construction industry’s currently massive carbon footprint. His work over the last...

A flagship project of the New South Wales government to support the tourism and fishing industries, the new Sydney Fish Market is being redeveloped as a world-class social and tourist...

Mass Timber Building Science Primer provides range of insights into how wood brings a range of advantages to commercial construction.  While this primer starts from first principles, it does contain...

2021 might be remembered as the year when mass timber finally broke through as a construction material in the US. Last year, the International Code Council updated its International Building...

Over 260 people registered for the 2021/22 WoodWorks Conference held last week using an online format.  Delegate feedback ratings were close to the highest ever received for this event which...

Terrapin’s new paper highlights the experiential and sensory aspects of wood as a building material and illustrates perspectives designers can use in material selection. The authors, Bill Browning, Catie Ryan...

An agreement to create an industry advisory service for building designers will promote and facilitate greater use of timber in New Zealand buildings, says Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand...

The world’s largest companies are striving to lead the way in building space for their staff and communities.  Here is some inspiration from Steven Paynter, an architect who was the...

Cheaper, quicker, and more environmentally friendly… is this the future of New Zealand’s multi-story construction industry? We talk with Red Stag Timber CEO, Marty Verry about how the Clearwater Quays project, they are delivering...

Mass Timber Site Visit:  We invite all design and construction professionals to a site visit to the Tryp Hotel building project in downtown Wellington JOIN US on 7th April from 4pm. The...

(Australia) The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will offer $300 million in debt financing to encourage greater use of cross-laminated timber and cut embodied carbon in commercial projects such as office...

New seaweed plasterboard design provides safer, more sustainable building option – A revolutionary new plasterboard design incorporating seaweed could reduce the carbon footprint of building materials and contribute to safer,...

Seven years after the inauguration of Bosco Verticale in Milan, Stefano Boeri Architetti presented a video documentary of Trudo Tower, the first Vertical Forest in social housing. The 19-storey residential...

A 27-year-old civil engineering student at the University of Waterloo has caught the attention of mass timber engineering and design professionals in Europe through his design proposition for a seven-storey...

Scion’s Te Whare Nui o Tuteata is putting New Zealand on the architecture world map. Scion’s innovation hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, has won 14 domestic and international awards...

Changes are coming to the way Kāinga Ora works with architects, with the establishment of preferred supplier panels. These panels will give preferred suppliers visibility of the Kāinga Ora pipeline,...

Otago Polytechnic’s 231-bedroom Student Village is New Zealand’s largest completed* cross-laminated timber structure. Designed by architecture firm Mason&Wales, the project represented a significant opportunity for the institute to incorporate some...

Engineered timber experts, TimberLab, has been working alongside community representatives since early 2020 on the design and supply of a new hall for the Niutao Island community. Situated on Tuvalu’s...

The award-winning Sara Cultural Center by White Arkitekter building is located in Skelleftea, Sweden. Completed late 2021, it’s currently one of the world’s tallest timber buildings and includes a hotel,...

Red Stag Wood Solutions Limited (Red Stag) is seeking a quality Operations or Plant Manager to be responsible for its Engineered Wood Product (EWP) plant in Rotorua within the greater Red Stag site. Red Stag is New Zealand’s largest Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) manufacturer in the country, and is in the process of becoming the largest manufacturer of Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) in New Zealand.  Red Stag is also a leading independent manufacturer of timber frames and trusses and prefabricated...