South Africa’s furniture industry is grappling with a surge of undervalued imports that distort market pricing and undermine fair competition. These imports are often declared under incorrect Harmonised System (HS) tariff codes, which mask the…
Austro Woodworking is back with a new team and a renewed focus on Biesse‘s high-end, technologically advanced Italian-manufactured machines like its well-known Stream edgebanding and Rover CNC machines. The new company’s director has assembled a…
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…
NMU’s creative duo Noa Solomon and Rudolph Botha won the 2024 National Timber Design Competition with their Blooming Branches design incorporating engineered timber to vertically extend the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) building at the University…
The highly anticipated second Timber Construction Conference again showed that “growing timber connections” involves human relationships, supply chain strength, environmental stewardship, economic sustainability and transdisciplinary collaboration across knowledge domains. The 230-strong enthusiastic group of architects,…
The annual Timber Construction Colloquium was an instructive forerunner to the Growing Timber Connections conference, presenting multiple research topics on improving the quality, knowledge and applications of engineered timber. The increasing number of master’s, doctorate and post-doctoral…
PG Bison hosted over 100 guests to celebrate the launch of its impressive new medium-density fibreboard (MDF) line in Mkhondo, Mpumalanga on 8 and 9 October 2024. Gerhard Victor, PG Bison’s CEO and Greg Boulle, CEO of…
Festool’s 18-volt battery-powered ExoActive exoskeleton assists you by boosting your arms when doing strenuous overhead tasks. Whether installing wall cabinets or a ceiling, shopfitting or painting, the ExoActive exoskeleton gives users an added boost when…
Uganda’s Timber Innovation Centre (TIC) is attempting to showcase timber-based construction to meet the needs for infrastructure development and housing for millions of homeless and young people entering the housing market. In 2018, Lightwood, an initiative…
There is a place few dare to tread from a design and a construction perspective, as there are no guidelines. David Marks, managing director of Marks Engineering Works, calls this area of timber construction; extreme…
