23-Aug-2010

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Timber Education Program - Feedback Request
• AS 1684 - 2010
• Free Wood Solutions Guides
• Wood Solutions 2010 Seminars
• Construction in Bushfire Prone Areas - NSW additional requirements
• Construction in Bushfire Prone Areas - SA additional requirements
• Construction in Bushfire Prone Areas - ACT additional requirements
• Australian Standards Update
• Expanding the Class 3 Buildings timber market
• View Australian Timber Design Awards entries and vote for your favourite
• Even More Teaching and Learning Resources
• www.timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

6-Aug-2010

Voting has opened for the 2010 People's Choice Award! Members of the public may view all entries into the 2010 Australian Timber Design Awards (ATDA) and vote online for whichever entry they like best. The Awards features a very eclectic field of entries this year, so we're certain you'll find a project that suits your taste. And voting is easy: just click on images to view the projects, select the project you like best, and click the Vote button. Try it now!

Although the public chooses the winner of the People's Choice Award, the expert ATDA judging panel will determine all other winners. The winner of the People's Choice Award will be announced on October 29, shortly before the announcement of the Overall ATDA winner.

9-Jul-2010

The Australian Timber Design Awards (ATDA) submission deadline has been extended to July 30! This gives those architects and design professionals still working on their submissions a little extra time to get their entries in.

This change accommodates the many requests from architects for a couple of extra weeks in which to track down missing images and confirm timber certification. Veterans of architectural awards know that the final week before a cutoff date can be frantic. The Timber Design Awards organising committee hope this change has made things a little easier on participants.

So if you've got what you think could be a winning project, head across to the ATDA website, check out the entry categories (something there for everyone), and fill out a registration form today. July 30 is approaching fast!

1-Jun-2010

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Tassie carpenter and Melbourne apprentice nail top national award
• LVL and I-beam popularity increases
• Plywood, LVL, particleboard and MDF tutorials
• Timber wall cladding products
• New bushfire standard adopted in all states and territories
• Plywood membrane solution - a roof system for BAL-FZ
• New acceptable standards medium density housing handbook
• Even More Teaching and Learning Resources
• www.timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

12-Apr-2010

Wood Solutions 2010 is a one day forum, sponsored by Wood. Naturally Better, for building design professionals. It features innovative and inspirational presentations by leading international and local speakers on the structural and aesthetic use of wood. Visit the Wood Solutions 2010 website and be sure to pencil these dates into your diary:

• Wood Solutions 2010 Sydney: September 7, 2010 @ Dockside, Darling Harbour
• Wood Solutions 2010 Melbourne: September 9, 2010 @ Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
• Wood Solutions 2010 Brisbane: September 15, 2010 @ State Library of Queensland

26-Mar-2010

The Australian Timber Design Awards (ATDA), now entering the 11th year of competition, have announced that entry for 2010 is now open.

Big news this year is that the 2010 ATDA will, for the first time, allow entries to be entirely submitted online. No more poster boards and bubble wrap: entrants will instead upload their images and project descriptions via the password protected Awards Submission Facility on the ATDA website.

Another big change for 2010 is an expanded set of entry categories. There are now 7 primary entry categories, all building related, including a new category, Interior Fitout - Residential. There are separate Sustainable Design awards for residential and commercial projects, and a new Best Use of Recycled Timber award. A special category for Best Timber Joinery or Furniture Element has also been added; and there's even a dedicated award - the Australian International Project Award - for projects designed by Australian residents but built overseas.

Following the success of the introduction in 2009 of Regional Awards, there will, once again, be regional presentations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The national winners will be announced at a gala timber industry event in Sydney on Friday 29th October.

Get started by reading through the entry categories: we're certain you'll find a category to suit your project. Then, when you're ready to begin your submission (you may modify it at any time up until the close of entries), enter the 2010 ATDA!

22-Mar-2010

TDA announces Weathertex the first company to join the wood products business cluster as part of the NSW Government's Sustainability Advantage Program. More in this media release.

1-Mar-2010

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Hello
• National Carpenters Day - 16th April
• Termite Management - Guide and Free CPD Course
• Increasing Quantities of Imported Wood on the Australian Market
• Environmental Certification - FSC and AFS/PEFC Now on Equal Footing in Commercial Green Building Market
• Painting Guidelines for External Timber
• BCA 2010 Seminars
• Even More Teaching and Learning Resources
• www.timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

3-Dec-2009

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Hello
• New Home for Tree of Knowledge Wins Australian Timber Design Awards
• Timber Design Awards - ACT/ NSW / SA Winners
• Cause of Recent Deck Collapse
• Need for Correct Detailing and Periodic Deck Inspection
• Update on Progress of AS 1684 Revisions
• Unusual Inspiration - Lady of Wood
• Even More Educational Resources
• www.timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

14-Nov-2009

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This survey has been produced by and has the support of the following organisations:

16-Sep-2009

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Hello
• Queensland's Tom Casey Awarded Australia's Best Carpenter
• Flooring Design - Secret Timber Guru Trade Secrets
• Timber Design Awards Presentations
• Progress of AS 1684 Revisions
• Plywood Tie-down at sides of openings
• Timber is tops for environmentally friendly commercial buildings
• Even More Educational Resources
• www.timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

25-May-2009

In this issue of the newsletter:

• Hello
• Timber & AS 3959-2009 Construction of buildings in bushfire-prone areas
• National Carpenters Day - 21st April
• Inspiration - Vespa scooter built out of wood
• Shonky Chinese LVL planks under scrutiny
• Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme gets international sustainability endorsement
• Update on Progress of AS 1684 Revisions
• Even More Educational Resources
• www.timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

31-Mar-2009

wood for good have launched a new film to support the Wood CO₂ts Less campaign. The film promotes the low carbon revolution and the part wood has to play for construction and energy generation. It shows how using more wood is a simple way of helping to build the low carbon economy that is vital to the fight against climate change.

View the new "Wood and the low carbon economy" film.

1-March-2009

Welcome to the first TAFE timber education newsletter for 2009.

• Hello
• Timber & Construction in Bushfire Prone Areas
• National Carpenters Day - 21st April
• Inspiration - Use of Timber at the Zoo
• It Keeps Happening, so We'll Keep Reminding!
• Slips, Trips and Falls in Buildings
• BCA Seminars 2009
• Technical Advisory Services
• Even More Educational Resources
• Technical Advisory Services
• timber.net.au
• Timber Framing Multi-Resource CD

13-Feb-2009

Trees that Call Australia Home is a spiritual, cultural, environmental and economic celebration of Australian trees - trees that, according to author John Halkett are increasingly vital as humanity searches for solutions to climate change, renewable energy and more sustainable lifestyles in the 21st century.

Despite being thought of as 'the wide brown land' Australia has a diverse, unique and precious heritage of trees and forest communities. "Their contribution to our welfare and sense of what it is to be Australian is immense," says Mr Halkett.

The ghost gums and baobabs of the outback, the tropical rainforests, the spectacular Victorian mountain ash, the majestic karri and jarrah of Western Australia and the diverse eastern eucalypts, are all among "the trees that call Australia home."

"More recently, they have been joined by introduced pines, which with native trees form the basis of an expanding tree plantation estate," he said.

Trees that Call Australia Home makes the case that together with the Southern Cross, Uluru and Sydney Harbour Bridge, the gum tree is quintessentially Australian. From the early days of European settlement to the mud and blood of Gallipoli, to the cosmopolitan society of the 21st century, it has, the book says remains a defining symbol of Australia and its sense of identity.

The book details how the forests of Australia, manipulated and perpetuated by Aboriginal fire stick farming, were initially regarded as an obstacle to European settlement and destroyed on a dramatic scale. However, trees soon became recognised as an economic catalyst in the fledgling British colony and their contribution to economic well-being continues to this day.

"Trees have been fundamental to human life, to economic welfare and to cultural and spiritual development since time immemorial," says Mr Halkett.

"It is apparent that trees must play a more central role in confronting issues like climate change, resource depletion and renewable energy in the decades ahead."

In saluting the amazing qualities, geographic spread, botanical complexity and the special Australianness of our trees and their forest homes, Trees that Call Australia Home recognises the importance of trees to continuing human existence and survival in Australia and across the globe.

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4-December-2008

Welcome to the third TAFE timber education newsletter for 2008.

• Hello
• Urgent Feedback Request - AS1684 Revision
• BCA Seminars 2009
• Corrections - Timber Stairs, Balustrades and Handrails Manual
• Wood Naturally Campaign
• Inspiration - World's Tallest Modern Timber Building
• New Resources 1: Long span timber beams
• New Resources 2: Box beam
• Even More Resources

15-Oct-2008

The second timber.net.au newsletter for 2008.

• www.timber.net.au - Not just your regular website
• Wood Naturally Better - TDA at the Front of new Industry Campaign
• Cypress NSW - on display
• TDA CEO visits world's tallest modern timber building
• New long span timber beams resource
• Expose your company to over 5,000 visitors a month