Timber framing accounted for 91.1% of all framing in houses approved in Victoria over the year-ended April 2024. The latest analysis of the most comprehensive data available in any Australian jurisdiction shows 30.972 house approvals included timber framing, with ‘no information’ coming in second (4.4%) and steel framing third (3.7%). Source: Industry Edge
Over the same period, timber also framed 83.8% of townhouses and an aggregate 89.5% of all dwellings approved in Victoria, including apartments.
IndustryEdge has laboriously reassembled the massive dataset available for Victoria, cleansing the entire data series back to 2009, to inform subscribers and clients of the trends in building materials use in the State’s dwellings. The data is updated monthly in the IndustryEdge database and a range of datasets are being provided to clients interested in timber framing, roofing materials, flooring materials, cladding types and other relevant features.
One aspect of the data that has proved useful for clients is analysis of framing and roofing materials at the specific Council level, based on the floor area of every dwelling approved in the State since 2009. Analysis has pointed to some major trends and changes over the fifteen years for which data is available, especially for those areas where there has been extensive new building. One client has worked with IndustryEdge to extrapolate the trends to identify the likely number of dwellings requiring ‘timber solutions’ in an adjacent development area and worked through the expected average size of dwellings and therefore frame, truss and other materials needed over the next two to three years.
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