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Every manufacturer will be looking to gain an advantage on their shop floor, with savings on time, materials and cost and ways to boost production output and efficiency at the top of the agenda. The housebuilding sector is no different…

Mark Cooper, UK and Ireland Sales Director at pan-European insulation specialist Actis, outlines his company’s focus on innovation and investment in research and development to ensure a balance between performance, efficiency, and sustainability. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving…

Building with timber and other biobased materials offers a significant opportunity to lock carbon out of the atmosphere and to clearly demonstrate climate action. Now, for the first time, BSCQ can prove this. The certification has been developed in direct…

As the first person in the UK to build a home using EcoCocon’s straw panel Passive House system, George Mikurcik, Technical Specification Architect at Ecological Building Systems, discusses why he believes straw is a hugely underrated insulation material. I first…

Building with timber and other biobased materials offers a significant opportunity to lock carbon out of the atmosphere and to clearly demonstrate climate action. Now, for the first time, BSCQ can prove this. The certification has been developed in direct…

A new research project led by BE-ST and the University of Edinburgh has provided one of the clearest pictures yet of how stakeholders view fire safety in mass timber buildings and what needs to happen next to unlock wider adoption.…

Charlie Law, Sustainability Director at Timber Development UK (TDUK) believes the case for setting and understanding embodied carbon measurement has never been more important. We have probably all read the statistic that the built environment is responsible for around 40%…

Rob Cullen, founder and lead designer at Cullen Timber Design, has been inside the timber sector for many years. He took some time out to tell us where he sees the industry as timber construction continues to gain ground across…

Changes to Approved Document B could have profound implications for timber construction and the UK’s net zero targets. Andrew Orriss, Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Association (STA) outlines some critical considerations. The government has been consulting on changes to…

Glidevale Protect is proud to support The Innovation Hub in its goal to deliver sustainable and thermally efficient timber frame homes for Morro Partnerships. For Dave Thacker, Head of Innovation at The Innovation Hub and an experienced specialist within the…