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20 Mar 2023
New Zealand Post Breaks with Tradition for Taupo Depot
This building development is part of a new light commercial development on land near the AC Baths in Taupo. The development was originally planned as a conventional warehouse using concrete...
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20 Mar 2023
Australia Hotel Looks Good in Wood
The Adelaide Oval Hotel is an iconic project for South Australia and is a prime example of a project designed, engineered, and constructed utilising the design for manufacturing and assembly...
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20 Mar 2023
BC Company Well Placed for 1000 Mass Timber Homes Target
In Vancouver’s suburbs in British Columbia, one homebuilder is halfway to its goal of 1,000 mass timber homes. Vancouver-based homebuilder Adera Development is at the forefront of mass timber construction...
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14 Mar 2023
Mass Timber Status in Australia
When it came to mass timber, Australia was ahead of the world pack ten years ago. We had the tallest mass timber buildings for several years, some of the very...
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Platinum Partners
14 Mar 2023
Warren and Mahoney Named in Fast Company’s List of the World’s Most Innovated Companies for 2023
Globally influential business publication Fast Company has announced its prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. The list showcases businesses at the forefront of their respective...
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14 Mar 2023
Spotlight on: WoodWorks Conference Site Visits
Thanks to Sheppard and Rout, Naylor Love and their building project clients we have two site visits demonstrating mass timber applications in two different applications. Both the AgResearch Lincoln and Marian...
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14 Mar 2023
New International Fire Safety Design Resource
Mass timber experts in three countries have launched a comprehensive new fire safety website: Fire Safety: Wood in Construction. It gives users a free, single point of access to information...
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14 Mar 2023
Denmark Leads Decarbonisation in Building
Denmark leads the way with embodied carbon limits for buildings. From January 1st, 2023, Denmark became the first Nordic country to introduce embodied carbon limits into building regulations. All new...
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The Lighter Side
07 Mar 2023
Stevens Lawsons Architect Receive Highest NZIA Award
Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson receive NZIA 2022 Gold Medal – Auckland architects Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson of Stevens Lawson Architects (SLA) have been awarded the 2022 Gold Medal...
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07 Mar 2023
Unique Opportunity for Young Industry Professionals
This opportunity comes with a free conference registration – up to about five of them in fact for – for this year’s WoodWorks South Island 2023 event running in Christchurch,...
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07 Mar 2023
Spotlight on: WoodWorks Conference Site Visits
Thanks to Sheppard and Rout, Naylor Love and their building project clients we have two site visits demonstrating mass timber applications in two different applications. Both the AgResearch Lincoln and Marian...
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07 Mar 2023
WoodSolutions 2023 Study Tour – Sweden and Norway
Six days and six nights of outstanding inspiration, information and fun from Falkenberg, Sweden to Oslo, Norway for AUD$6,950 single accommodation basis.Join our group of architects, engineers, developers and building...
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28 Feb 2023
WoodWorks 2023 South – Speaker Focus
Jasper van der Linden – Director, Sheppard and Rout Architects, New Zealand Jasper has been an Architect for well over 30 years and is currently a director of Sheppard &...
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28 Feb 2023
Remember Bob Jones ‘Tall Timber Tower’ in Wellington?
If you’ve been a regular WoodWorks Conference attendee you may recall from our 2018 conference how excitement generated when landlord and property developer Bob Jones declared he would commit to...
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28 Feb 2023
West Australia’s Largest Timber Building Opens
Western Australia’s first large-scale mass-engineered timber building has been completed at Murdoch University’s South Street campus in Perth. Designed by Lyons in collaboration with Officer Woods, The Fulcrum Agency, Silver...
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28 Feb 2023
What are the 5 largest timber projects ever built?
Vittorio Salvadori: I am currently updating my doctoral research for a new article to be published soon, and I have collected 5 projects: 1) Arboretum (France-2023): 125,000 m2 2) Siemens...
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28 Feb 2023
Engineered Wood Products Webinar
The Timber Design Society invite you to watch their 2nd webinar of their 2023 series with David Carradine presenting on Engineered Wood Products in New Zealand – Recent Survey Results...
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21 Feb 2023
WoodWorks Christchurch Conference & Site Visits: Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out – Only 160 Seats
Click here to register now for WoodWorks 23 South. With limited seats available we suggest you register your teams as soon as possible. Thanks to our speakers we have a practical...
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21 Feb 2023
The Nature of Wood
Looking around the world, mass timber construction is gaining attention in the architectural world. Timber construction can have significant benefits in reducing the embodied carbon footprint of buildings. If sourced...
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21 Feb 2023
More Valuable Information from WoodWorks US:
From our colleagues at WoodWorks in USA, we spotted this valuable resources for people working with mass timber installers. Mass Timber Installation Training Curriculum – These mass timber installation training...
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21 Feb 2023
Story 2: Building Carbon Calculator Updated
Naylor Love: We’ve updated our Building Carbon Calculator! We developed the calculator a couple of years ago as a simple tool to compare the upfront carbon emissions of structural building...
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14 Feb 2023
Red Stag Timber Open Day for Industry
RED STAG TIMBER OPEN DAY – organised by the Mid-Rise Wood Construction Programme On 23rd February you and your colleagues can take a tour of 7 mass timber industrial buildings...
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14 Feb 2023
Binderholz Delivers ‘The Bond’ in Sydney
‘The Bond’, Sydney | Australia – is a 6-storey office building constructed with binderholz CLT BBS and glulam. The complete prefabrication took place off-site in their factories in Europe. Architect:...
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14 Feb 2023
ThinkWood Offers Affordability Solutions in Mass Timber
ThinkWood recently dove into a new report on the use of prefabricated wood products in affordable housing from Minneapolis-based environmental nonprofit Dovetail Partners and New York City-based development firm Spiritos...
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14 Feb 2023
Adele Wears Stella McCartney Gown Made From Wood Pulp in Las Vegas Show
Could wood pulp be the new material of choice for fashion designers? The performer Adele recently wore a beautiful dress made of Cady fabric, a semi-synthetic viscose material made from...
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07 Feb 2023
WoodWorks Christchurch Conference & Site Visits: Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out – Only 160 Seats
Click here to register now for WoodWorks 23 South. We remind you that Early Bird rates for the WoodWorks Christchurch Conference are on offer until 10 Feb (this Friday). With limited...
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07 Feb 2023
Job Vacancy: Business Development Manager
Woodspan are looking for an energetic Business Development Manager to look after their fast-growing Auckland market. Sustainable, innovative and NZ-made — Woodspan’s off-site manufactured PLT panels are changing the way...
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07 Feb 2023
USA: Where Mass Timber Housing is Growing Fast
Why Housing? Why CLT? – The mass timber team at Perkins & Will have a case study that’s worth checking out if you’re considering how multi-residential projects can benefit from...
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07 Feb 2023
Korea: Using Robot Dogs for Smarter Construction
In Seoul one of the smart construction technology systems being used at the site is a robot dog that walks on four legs. This smart device assists workers by accumulating...
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31 Jan 2023
WoodWorks > Christchurch > MARCH > Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out: Seats are Limited to 160 Delegates
Session one features Jasper van der Linden, Director of Sheppard and Rout Architects and the BECA Multi-disciplinary Design Team. This first session will be focussed on project showcase followed by...
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