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Timber buildings are reaching towards the skies, thanks to breakthroughs in super-strong wood. The Age recently featured this article looking at the future of Tall Timber:"Mass timber" is the collective term used to describe this new suite of structural materials, which include cross-laminated timber or "CLT" (multiple layers of wood glued together at right angles under extreme pressure to form giant wall, ceiling and floor panels) and "glulam" (layers of wood jointed together along the same gra...

Raptor is set to revolutionise all forms of timber-working - if you're not on board with polymer fasteners, you definitely need to check it out...Door manufacturing is just one area that can really benefit from time-saving polymer fasteners that can be sawed, sanded and cut without any damage to tools (read more).Taylor's Door Frames (TDF) and StyleWise Doors in Brookvale, NSW recently took us through their workshops to show how the Raptor system is changing their workflow, producing a better pr...

Climate change and a concern with how we consume energy is having big effects in the building industry. Our buildings consume a lot of energy and methods to minimise this consumption are being researched and developed all over the world. In 2010 a paper was written and presented by The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a highly respected national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy that delivered findings that may have a sur...