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.

Timber had a high profile at Interbuild’s ‘sustainbility street’, the section of the show dedicated to  offsite and other modern methods of eco-friendly construction.  In fact it accounted for the structure of most of the cutting edge buildings.

Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens has demonstrated two different approaches to building with timber. Peter Wilson, architect and director of business development for the Centre for Timber Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University reports

After intensive research, Stewart Milne Timber Systems’ maxim for eco-housing success is keep it  simple, stupid. Mike Jeffree reports

Kings Place Concert Hall scooped Gold in this year’s Wood Awards

The University of Reading’s new business school is a showcase for glulam. Keren Fallwell reports