Dr Schalk Grobbelaar at Pretoria University suggests applying systems thinking to develop integrated and optimised housing solutions. This is different from traditional housing design that plugs various solutions into a shell without integrating them into…
“If it weren’t for the commercial planting of trees from the early 1900s, the country’s indigenous forests would have been eliminated many years ago for our fuel, furniture and fibre needs”, asserts Roy Southey, CEO…
Neil Bassingthwaighte’s company, NB Tool Suppliers in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, is the official Leitz tools and tooling distributor and service provider in South Africa. He is a sharpening specialist with over a decade of experience maintaining…
Merensky Timber has relocated its Cape Town Depot from Transnet Park in Belville to a new, purpose-built, expansive warehouse facility in Dynamo Way, Wimbledon Estate in Blackheath. It boasts a weighbridge, a CCA timber treatment…
The mass timber market in South Africa is emerging rapidly. This month, David Marks discusses adhesives for glue-laminated (glulam) beams and cross-laminated timber (CLT). He also briefly describes the tests he conducted on locally available…
The driving force behind the development of cross-laminated timber (CLT) mass timber building systems is the need to provide alternative wood-based products and systems to architects, engineers, and contractors. There are no multi-storey mass timber…
Tanalith E, the water-based wood preservative favoured by architects and builders for treated timber that meets green building benchmarks, is celebrating 20 years of proven performance in the South African market. Read the full story…
David Marks, of Marks Engineering Works Association (MEWA) designed and engineered the most complex timber-engineered structure ever built in South Africa. It is the first curved beam timber dome in South Africa and the first…
Innovative southern African architects, interior designers and engineered wood products manufacturers with project lifecycle and sustainability concerns can consider applying for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Project Certification that confirms that the forest-based materials used in…
The University of Pretoria’s Engineering 4.0 Campus was an appropriate setting for South Africa’s first timber colloquium, which featured 16 reports by wood and structural timber researchers and scientists from three academic institutions in South…
