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Spring 2008 Issue

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Timber Building is a must read for anyone interested in the use of wood in construction and the built environment.  The magazine and website cover latest news on traditional solid timber-based construction, timber frame and building systems using glulam, LVL, SIPs and cross-lam panels, along with sustainability and environmental issues.

This blend of news and in-depth features, along with technical articles from our consultant TRADA, makes Timber Building essential reading for architects, engineers, house builders, developers, self-builders and other specifiers throughout the construction industry.


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NEWS 

Innovare air test at Osborne BRE House

Top rating for Innovaré's SIPS system
Published:  04 September, 2008

Despite its near-constant use, the Osborne Demonstration House at the BRE Innovation Park has achieved excellent levels of air permeability using Innovaré's SIPS system

NEWS 

Larkfleet managing director Karl Hick

Larkfleet to build demonstration green home
Published:  04 September, 2008

Larkfleet Group is building a demonstration 'green' home to show how a timber frame house is put together

NEWS 

Environmentally friendly houses in Desborough, using Kingspan Offsite's TEK system

Kingspan's TEK proves star choice for Orbit
Published:  29 August, 2008

Kingspan Offsite's TEK building system is being used in a affordable housing development to provide high levels of thermal performance - and reduce fuel bills

NEWS 

Sainsbury’s Dartmouth store features a glulam frame

Sainsbury’s opens timber eco store
Published:  26 August, 2008

Sainsbury's new flagship eco store in Dartmouth features a giant glulam structure

NEWS 

The I-joist landscape has changed dramatically

Louisiana-Pacific to launch UK I-joist operation
Published:  26 August, 2008

Competition in the UK I-joist sector looks like hotting up with the entry of Us timber giant Louisiana-Pacific

NEWS 

Jonathan Goodwin at the Welsh factory

Goodwins Timber Frame closes factories
Published:  19 August, 2008

Goodwins Timber Frame has blamed the downturn in house building for its decision to close its two factories and cease trading

NEWS 

Green choice: John Brash's Western red cedar cladding

Western red cedar proves green choice for cladding
Published:  18 August, 2008

John Brash & Company's Western red cedar cladding was used to help developer David Wilson Homes secure Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 on its latest Hampshire development

CASE STUDIES 

Exterior view of Kevin McCloud’s house at the Grand Designs Live exhibition

Building by numbers
Published:  22 August, 2008

The Facit building system employs digital technology to produce bespoke houses made from prefabricated timber cassettes. David Castle reports

CASE STUDIES 

Wolseley's Sustainable Building Center is built from 107 of the company's 7,000 sustainable products

Sexily sustainable
Published:  22 August, 2008

Wolseley’s new eco-building products showcase is designed to tune the UK in, and turn it on, to sustainable construction. Mike Jeffree reports

TIMBER SPECIES 

Renzo Piano used American cherry throughout the Rome Auditorium

American cherry has a fine, uniform straight grain

The charm of cherry
Published:  08 August, 2008

The rich tones of American cherry give warmth to interior finishes. David Venables, director, American Hardwood Export Council, Europe, Middle East and India, reports

ENVIRONMENT 

After 15 years of effort, just 11% of the world's forests are certified as sustainable

Certified tropical hardwoods remain scarce

How risky is your timber?
Published:  08 August, 2008

The difficulties of achieving forest certification in certain regions and growing pressure on importers to eradicate illegal wood are making risk assessment of suppliers an increasingly important tool in timber procurement – and it may become a legal obligation in the EU. Rupert Oliver of Forest Industries Intelligence reports

TECHNICAL 

Doors in older properties are almost exclusively timber but none will have been designed as a fire door when installed

A fire in a heritage building can mean irretrievable loss

Preserving our heritage
Published:  08 August, 2008

Peter Barker, head of consultancy at TRADA sister company Chiltern International Fire, discusses the particular fire safety issues posed by heritage buildings

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