Wrekin College Business School An award-winning Business School building constructed at Wrekin College has been enhanced by the installation of specially produced Oak-veneered and wrapped MDF products from W. Howard. Wrekin College, based in Telford, Shropshire, which was established in 1880, has undergone a number of updates...
This year's NWTTA Dinner saw Adam Conlan, University of Liverpool, scoop up the North West Timber Trade Association Student Architect Prize. Ben Callas and Adam Conlan NWTTA Chairman, Ben Callas, commented on the award saying: "Adam provided a project that not only fit the brief, but demonstrated...
The launch of the Wood Awards 2019 will be held at the Building Centre in London on Tuesday 12th March. The guest speaker of the evening will be Alex de Rijke, cofounder of dRMM Architects. The event - sponsored by the Timber Trade Federation - will begin at...
In a world where failing buildings and performance gaps are the norm, where professions are adversarial, and value engineering, cheap product substitution and below par building practices are expected – should we encourage our next generation of professionals to use timber in buildings? The multidisciplinary team of six that...
A collaboration first presented in 2008 by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) and Sir David Adjaye will be part of an exciting new exhibition at the Design Museum, London. Nine hundred and twenty vertical strips of American tulipwood formed the ceiling. Sclera, originally commissioned for the...
The Timber Trade Federation is pleased to be sponsoring the new exhibition 'Forest of Fabrication – dRMM: pioneers of timber architecture' hosted by the Building Centre in London from 8 February until 17 May 2019. Forest of Fabrication demonstrates the possibilities of modern timber construction through the...
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...
The winners of the annual Wood Awards have been announced at a ceremony held on the 20th November at Carpenters’ Hall in London hosted by David Hopkins, Managing Director of the Timber Trade Federation. Established in 1971, the Wood Awards is free to enter and...
Waugh Thistleton Architects, in collaboration with the Softwood Lumber Board & Forestry Innovation Investment, have recently launched the book 100 Projects UK CLT. The one hundred projects featured in the book were selected from over 500 completed CLT projects in the UK. "Over the last 15 years the...
These slides were presented at The UK Wood Panels Conference 2018 (London, 7 November 2018)...