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