Artist Henri Matisse once defined happiness as a ‘good day’s work…illuminating the fog that surrounds us’. In the case of Brexit, that fog still hangs like a persistent haar, or sea fret, as it’s known in some parts, over our timber importing sector. There is...
Having introduced a Fixed Term Parliament Act in 2011 to ensure stability in British politics, we are now heading for the third general election in four years. The reason behind this is obvious: Brexit. The referendum has produced a divided country, represented by a divided Parliament,...
The UK government set out its long-awaited proposals for tariffs in a No-Deal Brexit this morning. The trade plan would see full-scale liberalisation of 87% of import duties, while keeping protections for certain industries such as ceramics, automotives and farming. However, this new temporary tariff system...
This blog post is by TTF Managing Director David Hopkins. It originally appeared on the FMB website Architects’ creations often go in fashions, but there’s one fashion which, with the advance of climate change, is here to stay, and that’s the ever-increasing use of wood, internally and...
This blog post is by TTF President Charles Hopping I’d like to start by wishing our members all the very best for a year which looks to have a few twists, turns, obstacles and other surprises in store. The ongoing Brexit saga is likely to continue to...
This blog post is by TTF Managing Director David Hopkins. Continued lack of clarity over Brexit is causing inevitable economic uncertainty and stress, but the timber sector and Timber Trade Federation is focused on business development regardless, writes TTF Managing Director David Hopkins. The defining characteristic...
Making the case for wood to an audience of architects, designers and manufacturers at the recent Wood Awards in London, David Hopkins Managing Director of the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) left nobody in doubt as to the importance of wood as the key construction material...
This blog post is by TTF Managing Director David Hopkins So, here it is. After two years of puffed up posturing and inflated rhetoric we finally have sight of the outline Brexit withdrawal deal that Theresa May has managed to agree with the EU. At first sight...
This guest blog post is by Martin Whitfield, MP for East Lothian and the Chair of the Timber Industries APPG Earlier this month, Theresa May reaffirmed to the Conservative Party Conference her ‘personal mission’ to fix our housing crisis. Yet in the same speech, she reiterated her...
This feature is by TTF Managing Director David Hopkins As I am sure you are aware, this week at the Conservative Party Conference, Housing Secretary James Brokenshire made the following statement: "Combustible cladding is to be banned for all new schools, hospitals, care homes, student accommodation and...