News

The finalists have been announced for this year’s Elements of Innovation Awards, taking place during the UK’s only dedicated furniture components show, Elements and woodworking machinery and materials show, the W Exhibition.

An expert working group set up by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Wood Panel Industry and industry members, Norbord, Kronospan and Egger, met to discuss the challenges faced by the wood panel sector.

Offsite timber frame specialist Scotframe has appointed Daniel Wilson as business development manager at its new office within the National Self Build and Renovation Centre (NSBRC), Swindon. He will focus on developing the recently launched branch, helping Scotframe, which is headquartered in Inverurie, to push forward on its plans to target a larger share of the English self-build housing market ...

Continuing its pledge to champion the industry of tomorrow, The W Exhibition and Elements will be partnering with the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) and Didac Training College for a second time.

The Wood Protection Association (WPA) board has been reorganised in a bid to strengthen its leadership team, following a review of the association’s ability to serve a growing demand for its services and expertise. Under the new structure, which comes into effect on 1 October 2018, Gordon Ewbank becomes chief executive officer (CEO), heading up the leadership team, with overall ...

Health and wellbeing will be the focus at the Wood for Good Marketing Summit in London this autumn. Health and wellbeing, indoor air quality and the use of healthy building materials are becoming increasingly important in construction and the marketing summit will assess the market potential, demand and drivers for healthy building products. The event, aimed at timber marketing and ...

Sylva Design & Build Solutions has chosen Norbord’s flooring product, CaberShieldPlus for the new affordable timber frame homes that it is creating at Graven Hill, Bicester.

Housebuilder and offsite manufacturer Stewart Milne Group has teamed up with the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) to better understand and measure current site productivity, downtime and waste. “Site productivity is very important to the growth plans of the Stewart Milne Group and the future efficiency of our housing delivery approach,” said Stewart Dalgarno, director ...

Restrictions have been introduced on the import of most species of oak into England as part of new regulations to protect native trees from the threat of Oak Processionary Moth (OPM). The movement of certain oak trees into the UK’s OPM Protected Zone (an area of the EU declared free of the pest) is banned unless specific conditions are met. ...

RCM, Roofing and Cladding Materials Ltd, has appointed Ricky Beadle as regional facades sales manager for the south of England.