Merchant and timber engineering firm CR Taylor Timber has reported a doubling of roof truss sales in 2011.

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) panel construction will figure prominently in a multi-million pound redevelopment of Keynsham town centre.

Bangor’s new £40m Olympic-sized swimming pool, said to be the UK’s largest glulam project, faces further construction delays after many of the 11-tonne beams were damaged during their sea voyage to Belfast.

Early bird discounts are being offered on TRADA’s repackaged timber frame training course.

The first homes produced at the Accord Group’s new timber frame factory are now being erected in Walsall.

Structural timber, wood cladding, wood fibre insulation and biomass heating all feature in award-winning new headquarters for the Severn Gorge Countryside Trust.

ITW Industry has increased its market share in the engineered wood products sector with the acquisition of Eleco plc’s timber engineering division – Gang-Nail Systems.

Kent-based OFP Timber Framed Homes says it is aiming to keep disruption to customers to a miminum after suffering  a major fire just before Christmas.

UPM has teamed up with Danish architects to develop a new plywood house building system.

UK glasswool insulation manufacturer Superglass is investing £6.5m to boost production capacity and product quality.

Leno cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels have been used for the roof of a school sports pavilion in Bath.

Stewart Milne Timber Systems is rolling out its innovative Sigma II Build System to a wider range of sectors across the UK.

Aberdeen’s first council housing project in over 30 years - 85 timber frame homes constructed to meet Level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes – has been completed by Stewart Milne Construction.

An engineered wood structure is being built outside an existing oak frame barn in a residential conversion project in High Wycombe. 

Touchwood Homes is to build Milton Keynes’ first Passivhaus home.

A new 167m2 timber frame village hall project in north Wiltshire has been switched from masonry to timber frame.

Europe’s largest straw bale constructed buildings have been topped out at Inspire Bradford Business Park.

UK architect Andrew Waugh, who designed the “world’s tallest” timber building in London, has been promoting cross-laminated timber construction during a tour in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s Timber Design Awards has seen the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology’s Arts & Media Building – a seismically-protected timber structure – win two major prizes.

SIPs supplier Innovare Systems is to provide its i-SIP infill system for the development of a new research centre at the University of Nottingham Innovation Park.

Finnforest’s SoundBar system features in new timber frame MOD accommodation at Catterick Camp.

The inaugural course offered by the UK Timber Frame Association’s (UKTFA) new Academy will help members reduce waste in the supply chain and aid their competitive ability in the current challenging market.

Initial results show more than 4,000 people attended the first ever Timber Expo last week.

The Rothschild Foundation in Buckinghamshire has been crowned the Gold Award winner in the Wood Awards 2011 - the UK’s premier awards for use of wood in architecture and furniture.

A call for a “wood first” rule in publicly-funded build projects forms part of a new “Timber Industry Manifesto” being launched this month.

Stewart Milne Timber Systems is planning to make job cuts across its business.

A wedding tower and restaurant on Blackpool seafront is being built using Finnforest’s Leno cross-laminated panels.

Timber works on the myriad of temporary pedestrian bridges at the Olympic Park site are approaching their final stages.

Bristol-based prefabricated timber frame/straw bale building firm ModCell has launched an office in the US.

A speculative 70-storey timber tower in London forms part of a research paper drawn up by engineers Ramboll.

Royale timber cladding is now on show in a project at historic Wellington College in Crowthorne.

Innovaré Systems’ i-SIP panel building system has helped Hillingdon Council to develop the first assisted living housing to achieve level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes.

A combined miniature theatre, coffee bar, bike shelter and beach hut has won the BioRegional Quintain timber hut design competition at Middlesbrough’s £200m RiversideOne development. 

Trussed Rafter Association member Wyckham Blackwell has supplied 18 bespoke hardwood roof trusses to Telford & Wrekin Council for installation in a new leisure centre in Wellington, Telford.

The new indoor theatre within The Globe in London is expected to be very timber oriented, like the main theatre itself.

Media company UBM plc has today announced the £51m acquisition of Ecobuild owner International Business Events (IBE) Limited and says it wants to double the size of the event over the next four years.

The UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) has demanded that RISCAuthority’s new report on fire in timber frame buildings be withdrawn.

Manufacture has begun of the elements of the US red oak  “Timber Wave”, which will surround the main entrance of  the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival (LDF). 

The Glued Laminated Timber Association (GLTA) is expanding its membership and taking a higher profile.

The assets of RTC Timber Systems, which constructed Scotland’s first Passivhaus, have been sold off this week at auction after the company fell victim to financial difficulties.

Larch cladding from BSW Timber has been used in the construction of a new restaurant at the base of the Nevis Range mountain gondola, near Fort William.

The specialist joinery contractor which completed the Velodrome roof and façade for the London 2012 Olympics has gone into liquidation.

Steico has agreed terms with seven Masonite Beams dealers, representing about 90% of the latter’s UK I-joist volume.

The Kent branch of failed engineered timber group Donaldson & McConnell has been the subject of a management buyout headed by an Irish investor.

The 30-strong shortlist for this year’s Wood Awards was unveiled at Carpenters’ Hall in London yesterday.

More than 250 delegates attended the Solid Wood Solutions conference last week at Salford Quays.

Bluestone National Park Resort has completed an £8m development of 60 new luxury timber holiday lodges in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

A concise introduction to Eurocode design of concrete, steel and timber will be held by TRADA and the Steel Construction Institute on July 13 in London.

A sell-off of publicly-owned land could create work on up to 100,000 new homes in the next four years, according to fresh government plans.

A new artist’s studio in Canterbury constructed from I-joists is being billed as the UK’s first Passivhaus industrial building.

Finnforest Leno cross-laminated timber is being used as part of the £5m redevelopment of a North London primary school.

An £830,000 new timber frame tearoom and shop for the Duchy of Cornwall has been completed by Midas Construction.

Wood fibre insulation has been used in the construction of a low-cost timber frame Passivhaus certified house at 1,000ft above sea level in Wales. 

Machined ekki timbers have been used in the renovation of the 414ft long Scarborough Bridge.

Timber frame house manufacturers need to ready themselves for when demand picks up, according to a new housing report.

Australia’s first building to be constructed from cross-laminated timber could become a world-beater.

Natural Building Technologies (NBT) is looking to further demonstrate the benefits of breathable building envelopes after investing in WUFI advanced moisture modeling software.

A timber frame wall solution to help meet Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes had its first public airing at Ecobuild.

Engineered timber building specialist B&K Structures was awarded the runner-up prize in the Green Building Council’s Ecobuild sustainable stand awards despite only entering at the last minute.

The UK SIPs Association’s two-storey semi-detached house at Ecobuild was a representation of a Passivhaus project being building in Horsham by Innovare for Saxon Weald Housing Association.

With 1,300 exhibitors (2010: 1,000) and visitor numbers outstripping the organiser, IBE Ltd’s, forecast of 50,000 (2010: 41,000), there can be no doubt that Ecobuild has established itself as the premier exhibition for the construction industry – particularly in light of the demise of its nearest competitor, Interbuild.

A contract to supply two wooden buildings for the prestigious King’s College School in London was completed in just four days.

The 105-year-old Interbuild show in Birmingham has been cancelled after organiser EMAP said it “could not guarantee the scale or scope of event that customers demand and expect”.

A system has been launched to address fire safety concerns in multi-storey timber frame construction after a 12 month research programme and collaboration across the timber frame sector.

A solar panels supplier has seen its domestic installations jump by 90% since Feed in Tariffs (FITS) were introduced by the government last year.

A Suffolk company claims it has become Europe’s first timber frame manufacturer to produce and install its own insulation at source.

The organisers of Timber Expo are holding an exhibitor briefing day and preview event.

Stewart Milne Timber Systems has built four Code Level 6 homes at a groundbreaking zero carbon development in Slough, Berkshire for Scottish and Southern Energy.

Administrators of Chandos Timber Engineering have said initial interest in assets of the business has not resulted in any firm offers and auctions will now be held.

A new government document on the future of Building Regulations appears to scotch a key recommendation of the London Assembly in relation to the fire safety of timber frame structures under development.

Provision of temporary sprinklers and changes to Building Regulations are two of the London Assembly’s demands in its long-awaited report on fire safety in timber frame buildings.

A new closed panel timber frame factory has opened in Scotland, claiming to be the first UK operation to manufacture “world-class” German housebuilding technology.

The second heavy road bridge to be made out of Accoya modified wood has been moved into position in the Dutch town of Sneek.

Stewart Milne’s Sigma II timber frame build system will be used for a sustainable building project in West Lothian after the housebuilder won a Scottish government design competition.

The Supreme Court of New Zealand in Wellington, which features extensive use of timber, has won the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Structural Award in the heritage category.

Delivery of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels has started on the site of an eight-storey residential project in Hackney.

A new report shows the timber frame industry lost some market share during 2009 but also suggests it will outgrow other forms of construction over the coming years.

VERSA-LAM beams, and BCI joists from Boise Cascade were both used in a a new classroom block at a  London school that features unusually complex curves in its plan form and roofscape. 

BSW Timber’s wood products have been used in the transformation of a derelict barn into a four-bedroom home.

The restoration of Stoke Newington’s 1930s Town Hall has won the top prize in this year’s Wood Awards.

TRADA has launched a series of articles to uncover the truth about timber frame and fire.

The Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, a £25m landmark concrete and timber structure, celebrated its official opening last week.

UK Timber Frame Association chairman Geoff Arnold says he is concerned at how the BBC manipulated the issue of construction site fires to “worry” timber frame homeowners.

Glulam and Kerto LVL panels have been used to create a timber and glass roof structure over the refurbished Las Arenas bullring in Barcelona.

Center Parcs, UK-based leisure facilities provider, has designed three Treehouses in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire.

Open web timber joists have been installed by a team of 26 carpenters to support the London Olympic Velodrome track.

Natural Building Technology’s wood fibre insulation systems have featured at Scotland’s first Housing Expo.

The strength-to-weight ratio of Boise Cascade’s (LVL) Versalam beams was a key factor in their selection for an important education project in the north of England.

Thirty-four 26m-long glulam beams are creating the frame for Bournville College’s iconic new £66m building.

An architect who launched into contemporary micro timber buildings and has won three awards for his designs says the difficult economic climate has meant he is still waiting for his first contract.

The New Victory Hall in Neatishead, Norfolk, will be among the 12 projects to be showcased at Campaign to Protect Rural England's (CPRE) Green Buildings in Norfolk Open Days event, held from 23-26 September 2010.

Structural insulated panel manufacturer McVeigh Insulations is involved in a project to build one of the UK’s most sustainable schools in Liverpool.

Glulam is being used extensively in the construction of a nature reserve’s new £8.6m floating visitor centre near Preston.

A new timber visitor centre being built for Forestry Commission Scotland at Glentress Forest will be “the jewel in the crown” of the Borders.

A development involving the first zero carbon home to be built in Wales has been launched by the Welsh minister for environment, sustainability and housing Jane Davidson.

Timber frame manufacturer Mactaggart & Mickel Timber Systems has secured two new contracts to deliver its one-stop-shop building solution. 

Architect Michael Katz and artist Janet Corne have designed an affordable prefab home called ‘L41 Home’ in Vancouver, Canada, featuring cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls made from wood killed by the pine beetle.

English Heritage Buildings has won a prestigious Sussex Heritage Trust Award for its design and construction of a new oak frame shop at Pashley Manor in Ticehurst, East Sussex.

The latest criticism of timber frame construction by an architect and the chairman of the London Fire Authority was misleading, the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) has said.

More than £30,000 of lacquered iroko cladding has been supplied by International Timber for 60 new apartments in Edinburgh.

English Woodlands Timber (EWT) has supplied chestnut logs for an unusual exhibit at the Victoria & Albert museum in London – a charred timber teahouse designed by Japanese architect Teronobu Fujimori.

Construction consultancy C4Ci is working with Lime Technology to develop a lime and hemp building panel which can be made by timber frame manufacturers.

Timber was a winner at the Daily Telegraph British Home Awards last week, featuring strongly in several of the buildings that took prizes.

The timber ceiling has been lifted into place at the London 2012 Olympics velodrome.

A £3.3m glulam learning centre which is expected to achieve the highest-ever BREEAM rating for a bespoke building has officially opened today.

TRADA Technology has assessed the HECO-TOPIX range of structural timber screws to BS EN-14592:2008 to comply with NHBC and building regulations requirements for timber and glulam.

This year’s Wood Awards judges have whittled the 160 entries down into a 27-strong shortlist which includes strong contenders from previous winners, including Knox Bhavan Architects and Price & Myers. 

White Design in Bristol will host the next TRADA in the Regions event at the Knowle West Media Centre.

Growing demand for timber frame housing in England has led Scottish-based Oregon Timber Frame to invest £250,000 in a new factory in Burton-on-Trent.

More than 300 guests attended the presitigious RSUA (Royal Society of Ulster Architects) Design Awards in Belfast last month and saw McGarry-Moon Architects scoop the Wood Award for Fallahogey House and Studio near Kilrea in Coleraine.

TRADA Technology is holding new workshops on what it says is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the new structural timber code Eurocode 5 – connections.

Kestrel Timber Frame has supplied the frames for an extra care home in Peterborough.

Liverpool will shortly have a new Travelodge hotel, thanks in no small part to Eleco Timber Frame which has supplied its pre-engineered timber framing solution.

The UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) has relaunched its website (www.uktfa.com) as  part of its efforts to establish timber frame as the “construction method of  choice” for a building industry focused on shrinking its carbon impact.

The first of a new series of seminars devised to improve architects’ and specifiers’ understanding of timber construction took place at the Building Centre on April 23.

A glulam bird hide has been built on Rainham Marshes in Thurrock by ModularUK.

Scottish timber frame manufacturer Lomond Timber Frame has reported new contracts worth £250,000.

Timber roof cassettes manufactured by Wood Newton Ltd will shortly be lifted into place at the London 2012 Olympics Velodrome.

Westleigh Developments is currently constructing a £400,000 timber frame vocational centre for Countesthorpe Community College in Leicestershire.

Timber frame kit supplier Torwood Timber Systems went into administration on March 25, with a switch by some customers to masonry build cited among its problems. 

Wood-fibre insulation, whether flexible or in rigid boards, had one of the highest profiles of any material at Ecobuild.

This year’s Ecobuild sustainable construction show was the most successful yet, according to organisers and exhibitors, not least for timber, wood products and timber-based building.

The initial public hearing in a London Assembly investigation into building fire safety took a “positive” stance on the use of timber frame in the capital, according to housing and planning chair Jenny Jones.

Two leading timber construction contractors – Finnforest and KLH UK – are to show architects why wood is the material of choice to fulfill the government’s Building Schools for the Future brief.

Insurance giants Axa and Aviva have denied that they are threatening to withdraw cover on timber frame buildings, following a story in Building magazine alleging that the insurace industry saw timber frame as too high a fire risk.

Kingspan Group’s engineered timber systems business experienced a 72% reduction in sales during 2009.

Stewart Milne Timber Systems, one of the UK’s largest timber frame manufacturers, has appointed Ron Easton as its new managing director.

A new technical guide to KVH structural timber has been produced.

Thomas Mitchell has become one of the largest timber frame casualties of the recession after administrators from KPMG were appointed at the firm.

Timber frame designers, structural certifiers and verifiers are to be updated on how Eurocode 5 applies to the design of timber frame houses.

A timber frame company has joined forces with Energyflo Construction Technologies to offer a breathing building concept which dispenses with conventional insulation methods.

Timber frame will be used for Whitbread’s second green hotel and low-carbon restaurant in Burgess Hill, Sussex.

Willmott Dixon has used structural insulated panels (SIP) to construct a 7,000m² school building in Melton Mowbray.

The first chestnut pole frame school block to be built in the UK has been erected again after fire destroyed the first version last year.

A serious fire at a timber frame site in Camberwell, London, yesterday morning was the second blaze on a Greenacre Homes project in the last two months.

County Tyrone-based Western Building Systems, whose business includes timber frame systems for residential markets, has completed the latest phase of a £4m headquarters expansion.

A partnership between timber merchant MGM Timber (Scotland) Ltd, Dawn Homes and South Lanarkshire College has resulted in what the partners call the first affordable eco-home for the mass market.

The timber frame industry is fast-tracking fire safety plans in the wake of the recent major at Peckham which destroyed a large half-built timber frame building and damaged adjacent flats

Finnforest Merk’s Leno cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels have been used to overcome the structural challenges posed in an education centre project in the Netherlands.

I-joists from Boise Cascade have been used throughout the construction of a women’s refuge in the Republic of Ireland.

A large timber frame structure destroyed by a major fire overnight in Peckham had been fully erected and handed over to the developer only last week, Timber & Sustainable Building has been told. 

Timber features heavily in a striking new “flying saucer” shaped sports and leisure centre in Luxembourg. 

Homes designed to meet Code level 3 or above of the Code for Sustainable Homes are 2-5% cheaper to build in timber frame than masonry, according to a new report.

Timber frame companies and related suppliers are invited to a free event at the National Self-Build Centre to find out the market opportunities for timber frame in 2010 and beyond. 

Engineered timber and panels are strongly featured in the new Wolseley House at BuildStore’s National Self-Build Renovation Centre in Swindon.

A housing project in the Cairngorms National Park which showcases the use of Scottish timber has won two awards.

Night shift working at the James Jones & Sons’ JJI-joist factory in Forres has been re-instated.

German timber frame house manufacturer WeberHaus has teamed up with Scotframe to bring the production of fully closed panels to the UK.

Interbuild exhibitors are reporting positive feedback at this year’s show, despite the event being noticeably smaller than previous years.

Timber features in this year’s Stirling Prize winner, announced in London on Saturday.

Italian wooden house builder Subissati teamed up with architect Roberto Semprin to exhibit a new concept “Green Home” at a Verona design fair.

A development in Rochdale featuring timber frame housing by Oregon Timber Frame has been shortlisted for a CABE Building for Life Award.

Red louro timber cladding has been specified for the Olympics Aquatic Centre ceiling after an extensive testing regime, with Finnforest UK to supply and fit the timbers early in 2010.

A 16-17 storey tower project in Norway is being billed as the world’s tallest timber structure.

Two timber construction projects on the Wood Awards shortlist have now also been shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.

A design team led by London-based ARUP has won the Low2No Competition to build a sustainable development in Helsinki.

Two Lewisham schools – Sedghill School and Catford High School – have benefited from the Building Schools for the Future programme of investment and window and door manufacturer NorDan has supplied windows for the upgraded buildings. 

Timber's share of the new housing is on the up, as the latest figures show

Decking market gets ready for hardwood surge as Timbmet unveils new pre-finished range

An opaque timber finish has been used to make a timber-clad building shine out as a beacon to endangered birds

The head of the Olympic Development Authority's construction initiatives believes timber companies are ready to take advantage of 2012

Record number of entries for awards that showcase the best in timber construction

Wolf Systems Ltd’s easi-joist metal web floor system has been given Robust Detail approval

Baufritz’s carbon positive house took centre stage at Grand Designs Live at ExCeL, London

Langley-based Maple Timber Systems has been praised for its work on zero carbon homes and sustainability

Oak, douglas fir and straw are to be used to build a new auction house for Sworder Fine Art Auctioneers

A cutting-edge, sustainable visitor centre utilising Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) timber has been completed by LSI Architects in Norfolk

Cross-laminated timber triangles have been used to build a deconstructed Japanese T-House as part of the Festival of Xtreme Building (FXB) in Birmingham

Solar shading timber fins have been installed by Levolux at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

More than 50,000 linear metres of Baltic pine is being used to replace Manchester Velodrome's world famous cycling track

Ease of construction and the inclusion of high-quality components were key factors behind First Step Homes’ decision to include Kingspan Off-Site’s Optima system at a development in Cornwall

TRADA’s In Touch with Timber conference is to become an annual event following the success of this year’s show

The first batch of sustainable homes to come out of the partnership between housebuilder George Wimpey and architect Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) have been unveiled at Oxley Woods, Milton Keynes

The company behind the BoKlok timber frame housing development in the north-east has been awarded an architectural award for structural innovation

Chandos Timber Engineering has craned the last roofing frames into place as it finishes off the north-west’s first six-storey timber apartment block

Timber-based sustainable construction caught the imagination of the mass media at the OFFSITE 2007 exhibition. Mike Jeffree reports

In a major strategic move, connector manufacturer Simpson Strong-Tie has launched a dedicated Engineered Timber Division

Finnforest UK has won the contract to supply the timber frame components for Asda's first eco-sensitive store

Carpenter Oak & Woodland has finished work on the frame for the new Camery building at Wells Cathedral

Accoya, the modified wood developed by Titan Wood, is being used to build two large heavy traffic road bridges in the Dutch province of Friesland

Intended as an exemplar of sustainable timber design and construction, the new Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park headquarters at Balloch, near Glasgow, has begun on site.

Environmentally sustainable business units are to be built adjacent to an award-winning timber gridshell building in Kent.

The 100% Detail exhibition from September 21-24 has been chosen as the launch pad for the second edition of the American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) Hardwood References which illustrates use of US hardwood in flagship buildings.

A new partnership between BRE and University of Bath hopes to boost timber's usage in the UK

Timber frame construction is helping the redevelopment of a London church provide environmental, acoustic and thermal insulation benefits

Communal stairs must meet standards in relation to the strength and weight bearing of the flight and the handrail or baluster

The Canadian industry has proved itself responsive to UK market demand

Simpson Strong-Tie's new Scottish base will help improve product distribution

Tenth year in a row of profit growth for Stewart Milne Group

Rising concerns about steel prices made timber the obvious choice for a new showroom

TRADA has taken its timber frame training course back on the road

A new CPRE project highlights renewable energy and energy-conscious building techniques

Retailing giants Asda and Tesco are considering using timber for new stores

Enterprise Ireland claims UK construction wastes more than £10m each year through inefficient services

David Lloyd turned to Sikkens after deciding against the cost of importing the Canadian woodstain

Sustainable timber and timber products are to be used in an affordable housing scheme in Scotland

Pinewood has developed unusual prefab turrets for a north London residential development

The UK is leading the way in innovative timber design

Norbord believes housing associations want FSC-certified timber

To meet strict planning rules, architects Lee Evans Partnership used western red cedar fire retardant shingles from John Brash & Co on the roof of a new £2m primary school in a conservation area at Lamberhurst, Kent.

Donaldson's SIRS was one of five roofing systems tested by national housebuilder Persimmon

Graphisoft wins praise over software donation

Bates Maher has scooped a top award for its 'poustinia' cabins

The WAVE system will allow residents to benefit from low running costs

Architect claims 21st century will be the age of renewable timber

Timber industry joins forces for glulam solution

McInerney boosts North-east operation with Bowey Homes purchase