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…
The South African Furniture Initiative (SAFI) is restructuring to remain sustainable and continue delivering on its mandate. SAFI is the national organisation representing furniture, bedding, shopfitting and kitchen manufacturers. Through its working chambers it is…
Carmen Gregan, an interior design student at Design Time School of Interior Design (Cape Town), received first prize in the 2023 PG Bison 1.618 Education Initiative. Tiago Loureiro Goncalves from the University of Johannesburg and…
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…
Students Chiloane Thabang, Njabulo Ngwenya, Andile Gxubane and Lutho Mhlauli, a team of second-year students in the Architectural Technology faculty at Nelson Mandela University (NMU), took home third prize for their design of a Biodiversity…
Architecture students from the University of Pretoria (UP) were awarded first and second place in the national Timber Design Competition. WoodBiz Africa chatted with Shannon Govender (SG), who walked away with first place for her…
The “Timber in Context” Design competition, sponsored by York Timbers in partnership with the Department of Trade, Industry & Competition (the dtic) and the University of Pretoria (UP), challenged student designers and architects to explore…
“We have been through thick and thin in the past and survived. But nobody in the sawmilling industry can remember a time like this. Sawn timber sales are at an all-time low because the economy,…
Sawmilling is not all doom and gloom. When kiln managers, suppliers and drying experts get together they focus on shared learning, technologies, kiln controls, drying schedules and more. The annual meeting of the South African…
