For the first time in 17 years, the Green Building Council South Africa’s (GBCSA) annual Convention programme included an entire session on timber in the built environment and an impressive exhibition stand built with mass…
It’s an easy choice when a chainsaw combines performance and reliability with fuel savings and user comfort. The STIHL MS 382 is this machine… Specifically designed for the rigorous demands of professional forestry, plantation management…
Wood-based building products and design processes come in many forms. In the latest Talking Timber online seminar, three approaches to architecture were discussed. Leon Pienaar explained how Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) students experiment with…
The 14th Fire Management Symposium, held in Karkloof in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Midlands, was well attended by FPA managers, firefighters, land managers, foresters, researchers and trainers, once again proving its worth as the country’s premier…
In January 2025, the Nukor Group will celebrate its 65th anniversary and open the doors to a fresh chapter in its storied history. It has relocated to its new headquarters in Edenvale, Johannesburg. The relocation…
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has introduced the JSE Ventures Carbon Market, a new trading platform developed in partnership with Xpansiv. Trading carbon credits and renewable energy certificates (RECs) stored in local or global registries…
The superstructure for the four-storey CheiChei Living building, which is Africa’s first cross-laminated timber (CLT) hybrid structure with more than two levels has been completed and fit-out is well underway. The first residents are scheduled…
A recent wattle field day organised by NCT Forestry provided an ideal opportunity for local tree farmers to pick up some pointers from the wattle “experts” who have been working with wattle for decades. The…
In the right hands, wattle trees are true champion trees, giving commercial and small-scale growers multiple product options. Unmanaged, these prolific seeders can spread everywhere across the hills and valleys, negatively impacting biodiversity and using…
Clinton Fielies was born in the Garcia forestry village 39 years ago. He grew up in one of the classic wooden bosbou (forestry) houses around the corner from where he lives today with his wife…
