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Internationally acclaimed author John Marsden, established Candlebark School to offer a visionary educational alternative. Architect Paul Haar has complemented this achievement with a remarkable school library.

Forte, Lendlease's 10 storey CLT apartment building in Melbourne's Docklands is nearing completion and will be launched - after the holiday rush - in early 2013.

The UTAS School of Architecture and Design is continuing its long tradition of learning-by-making with two exciting 2013 summer workshops in Launceston, Tasmania.

As individuals, companies and governments look to ways of reducing the carbon footprints of built structures, life cycle analysis (LCA) is becoming an increasingly important tool. Providing a basis for comparison and evaluation, they allow informed decisions to be made and substantiated.

Vibe Design, a Melbourne practice, achiever international recognition with their Kew House 3 (also a WoodSolutions Case Study). Mercer shows a similar strength of design, albeit on a different footing!

WoodSolutions Technical Design Guides are a series of publications written by specialists to inform architects, engineers, designers and other building and construction professionals. They are available for free download from WoodSolutions.

Bringing together dynamic building and material experimentation with traditional methods of craft, Bergen-based Saunders Architecture has worked on cultural and residential projects right across Norway, as well as England, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Canada.

Take a sliver of land at the rear of an existing building, some heritage brickwork and an electricity transformer with stringent setback requirements, add Breathe Architecture and the result is the award-winning Transformer House

The Australian Timber Design Awards are widely recognised as Australia's most sought after wood design awards and the 2012 entries support this perception. From small to large, residential to civic projects, the magazine showcases the best Australia has to offer.

The growing interest in both engineered timber construction systems and prefabrication is evidenced by this apartment complex. Combing a range of engineered timber products the result set new benchmarks and elicited interested from throughout Europe and beyond.

Any way you peel or slice them, timber veneers are attractive, versatile finishes that provide the finishing touches to some of Australia's highest profile projects. Here's your opportunity to be inspired by some experts in the field, chat over drinks and nibbles and build you knowledge of veneer and its many applications.

WoodSolutions Technical Design Guides are prepared by experts to provide designers, engineers and other building professionals with relevant, accurate information about designing and building with wood.

DARCH is the Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter Emerging Architects and Graduates Committee. It was established in 2005 to enable and encourage our demographic to contribute to the profession. We provide opportunities at a state and national level, and in particular for local initiatives. DARCH is represented at a national level by EmAGN: the Emerging Architects and Graduates Network.

Australia's most prestigious timber design competition, the Australian Timber Design Awards are now in their thirteenth year.

The UTAS School of Architecture and Design is continuing its long tradition of learning-by-making with two exciting workshops this summer in Launceston, Tasmania. Run by the School's Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW), the summer workshops are designed to provide students, building professionals, and timber industry professionals with an opportunity to learn about the cutting edge use of timber in design and construction in a practical and hands-on setting.

Popular opinion would have us believe that trees grow from the ground, that's what roots are for right? Wrong. Most of the substance of trees comes from the sky in the form of carbon dioxide and water. And what have jiggling atoms got to do with it?

The UTAS School of Architecture and Design is continuing its long tradition of learning-by-making with two exciting events this summer in Launceston, Tasmania. Events are hosted with the UTAS Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood and sponsored by WoodSolutions.

Only three and a half years ago Lend Lease were first discussing CLT, now they have the world's tallest modern timber multi-residential building. What technology might we be talking out in the next three or five years? This fairly dry (i.e. no exciting pictures) but nonetheless interesting report ranks some of the options.

With the softening global price for wood chips, people are looking for other uses for plantation grown eucalypts, unsuitable for traditional sawn timber production. Hardlam is one solution to this problem - and it has the added advantage of being a great looking, environmentally advantaged product!

There's a sense of momentum behind CLT that will hopefully flow through to other engineered wood building systems and composite possibilities. The UK's Economist is prestigious magazine with a broad global readership of senior managers and decision makers.

Sometimes good ideas originate while you’re actually aiming to do something else – as was the case with Architecture of Necessity. The idea originated as Sweden’s Virserum Art Museum developed their WOOD 2010 exhibition. If you think it’s worth supporting, click through the link at the end of the article.

There's nothing quite as inspiring as seeing great design and execution - and when it's in wood it's even more inspirational! The Australian Timber Design Awards (ATDA) showcase the best of the best - and winners go on to contest international awards too. If you can make it to Sydney for the Awards dinner it's sure to be a great night.

It's unusual to have the wood and wood products industry in the public eye with a good news storey, but this items from ABC Melbourne's weekend news is one more communication to lift the awareness of wood in construction.

With spring around the corner it's time to think about summer plans - why not treat yourself to an enjoyable, informative and inspirational experience in Launceston at the Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood? Details of the two courses are below.