Australian designers are being challenged to use wood and wood products in attractive and innovative ways as part of the annual Dangerous Designs competition run by FWPA’s WoodSolutions arm. Source: Timberbiz Student Jeff Thornton’s Valium Lamp – a lamp where the shades change shape –

New Zealand structural log prices rose to the highest level for 25 years as local mills compete with the export market to secure supply for the domestic construction market amid strong demand from China. Source: Scoop Media The average price for structural S1 logs increased to NZ$135

The New Zealand government will be inviting companies to set up or expand offsite manufacturing factories to make KiwiBuild homes, indicating it may rely on prefabricated manufacturing to build its promised 100,000 affordable homes. Source: NZ Adviser Housing and Urban Development Min

There is still time to enter your creations, but hurry 19th Australian Timber Design Awards entries close 6 July 2018. Source: Timberbiz The Awards are organised under three timber design categories Timber Design, Merits, and Timber Products. Your entry may also be nominated for any M

Landscape architecture, marketing, carbon and plantations are just some of the topics that will be canvassed in the 2018 IFA/AFG Conference – Forests for healthy cities, farms and people being held in Canberra from 2-5 September. Source: Timberbiz The variety of speakers and views wil

Australia’s forestry sector could reduce the Federal Government’s 2030 greenhouse emissions target by almost a quarter if the right policies are put in place, according to an industry body. By Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz Forestry could take 18 million tonnes (megatonnes) of greenhous

Standing in a pit in the red soil of a mountaintop forest in northern Mozambique, Dr Simon Willcock was dirty but very excited. “Undisturbed forest is incredibly rare,” he said. “That is why we scaled a 125-metre-tall cliff with a pickaxe.”  Source: The Guardian Willcock, from Bangor

Jakub Bednarek headed into the forest near his home in Leavenworth, Washington, and collected samples of maple leaves to send to a lab for DNA analysis. Mr Bednarek, who also works as a biologist in his day job, is one of 150 volunteers in a project that stretches along the Pacific Co