Timber grows on trees! Wood is one of our truly renewable construction materials if we continue to plant forests and harvest mature trees at a sustainable rate. This means keeping the timber products that are milled and machined from those trees – harvested wood products – in use for longer than they have taken to grow. To use timber and timber products efficiently and effectively, we need to understand the benefits and drawbacks, timber’s strengths and weaknesses – the do’s and do not!

Timber Development UK – formed from the merger of TRADA and the Timber Trade Federation – is bringing together professionals who have a deep understanding of timber and how to design, specify, engineer, cost and use it in a world where we need to reduce green house gases by building wisely and well from energy efficient, low carbon, low embodied energy materials – if we build new, at all.

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