China’s smog eating city of trees
29 June 2017
The smog levels in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou are not yet dire but if the city fails to deal with its pollution, it will only get worse over time. Source: Business Insider Italian design firm Stefano Boeri Architetti believes that building a neighborhood with plant-covered t
Continue Reading →Portugal looks at Aussie style fire warnings
29 June 2017
Fire experts in Portugal are citing the need for Australian-style warning systems after the most devastating blaze in decades left 62 people dead. Locals in the town of Pedrogao Grande are struggling to understand how so many people died as they tried to flee the inferno. Source: news
Continue Reading →Europe leads the way with tall timber
29 June 2017
France, Austria and Norway are to become home to the world’s tallest wooden buildings according to a new report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), which has found Europe to be leading the timber construction movement. Source: Dezeen The CTBUH conducted t
Continue Reading →Gisborne Landcare office to close
29 June 2017
Landcare Research’s Gisborne office will close this week after 42 years playing a crucial role in studying the region’s world-famous erosion issues. Source: The Gisborne Herald The office, established in 1975 by the then New Zealand Forest Service, was never meant to be permanent, tho
Continue Reading →Lendlease’s 5th engineered timber building
29 June 2017
Fire and termites will be no threat to a nine-storey all-timber office block to be built in inner Brisbane, according to the construction team. Source: ABC News Taller wooden buildings exist in Australia and around the world but 25 King, now underway at the $2.9-billion RNA Showground
Continue Reading →Myrtleford comes together to help locked out workers
29 June 2017
Hundreds of families in a small north-east Victorian town have been without pay for almost 10 weeks, after the area’s biggest employer locked out its entire workforce. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Nestled in the middle of the state’s picturesque alpine ranges, Myrtlef
Continue Reading →Fire station to be built of timber
29 June 2017
What better way to showcase the many qualities of engineered timber, including fire compliance in contemporary building design than a new Fire Station? Source: Timberbiz This was the view of Hyne Timber when a potential opportunity arose to give the Maryborough Fire and Emergency Serv
Continue Reading →Kangaroo Island Plantations sets up at Kingscote
29 June 2017
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has opened an office in Kingscote and appointed two of its directors to executive positions as it works towards approval for its Smith Bay wharf and mobilisation of the forestry industry. Source: Timberbiz The office, at 70 Dauncey Street, provides a
Continue Reading →Tas forestry legislation gets the axe
29 June 2017
The Tasmanian Government’s horror week in the upper house has continued, with MLCs swinging the axe on its contentious forestry legislation. Source: ABC News The bill would have allowed logging in 356,000 hectares of forests two years earlier than a moratorium would have allowed
Continue Reading →Dead koala kicks up a storm
29 June 2017
A dead koala has been found between fallen trees in a logged forest that the Andrews government could have protected – had it not ignored advice from its own scientific committee. Source: The Age The Sunday Age has obtained graphic images of the lifeless animal slumped over branches i
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