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A young Australian architect travelling after studying wood design in Finland, Nicolas Pratt gives us a fascinating insight into the use of wood in Europe.

Australand's The Green in Melbourne's Parkville (co-developed with the Citta Property Group) is Australia's first five storey timber framed residential building.

Structural insulated panels (SIPS) are used in the prefabricated system chosen for North West Bicester, one of four eco-towns planned by the British government.

A survey of some of the most prominent tall timber buildings completed in the last few years.

WoodSolutions Technical Design Guide 21 - Domestic Timber Deck Design provides a comprehensive resource to enable both professional and DIY users to design and construct decks that conform to the National Construction Code.

Now you can simply and quickly calculate the bushfire attack level (BAL) for any site. The WoodSolutions calculator allows you to see the effect of changing variables, such as the distance to vegetation, and quickly compare results. Useful for people designing, building and occupying metropolitan fringe and country properties.

A young Australian architect travelling and studying wood design in Finland, Nicolas Pratt gives us a fascinating insight into designing and working with wood in that part of the world.

The Library at The Dock at Victoria Harbour in Melbourne's Docklands precinct opened on Saturday May 31. WoodSolutions will feature the building in a case study, but in the meantime here are some images from the launch, apologies for the phone quality. Architects: Clare Design and Hayball. Major partners: Lend Lease, Places Victoria and the City of Melbourne. Materials: cross laminated timber (CLT), Glulam, recycled wharf timbers

WoodSolutions Technical Design Guides are a series of publications - approximately 20 titles in all - created for design, engineering and building professionals. Titles contain essential information regarding material specification, detailing and codes and compliance. This is the story behind one of them.

WoodSolutions Timber Solutions software has just undergone a major update. We are looking for beta testers to trial the new software to ensure its functionality and reliability. People who have used previous versions are preferred as we would like you to run some of your previous calculations though the new application.

As a valued client of WoodSolutions we would like to invite you to designEX 2014 at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, Glebe Island from 28-30 May 2014.

WoodSolutions seminars are created to provide design, engineering and construction professionals with information and inspiration related to the use of wood and wood products.

Around the world designers and builders are seeking to reduce costs and simplify external variables and supply chains by increasing the use of offsite manufacturing and prefabrication. This Italian-based competition is being supported by Marlengo, a firm specialising in wooden prefabrication in collaboration with the Association of Architects of Bergamo. The details below are from the competition site.

WoodSolutions seminars are created to provide design, engineering and construction professionals with information and inspiration related to the use of wood and wood products.

WoodSolutions seminars are created to provide design, engineering and construction professionals with information and inspiration related to the use of wood and wood products.

WoodSolutions Tutorials are available at the Sydney offices of the Timber Development Association in St. Leonards. The Tutorials have been developed for staff of small and large engineering, building designers and architectural firms seeking to increase their timber knowledge.

The timeless appeal of wooden flooring is evident in these award winning examples of craft and innovation.

A growing range of scientific and anecdotal evidence is pointing to a range of benefits wooden buildings bring to the occupants. The cause of this effect is thought to be biophilia which can be described as the comfort and attraction humans feel to natural and life like things.

Sponsored by WoodSolutions, the Frame Australia 2014 Conference and Exhibition, now in its 16th year and being held at the Park Hyatt Melbourne on May 19, in conjunction with the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia.

Chris Philpot, Planet Ark's Make it Wood campaign manager, recently toured some of the wood architecture, design and manufacturing highlights of New Zealand with the Wood Smart Construction Tour. Here are some of his pictures and words describing the experience.

Chris Philpot, Planet Ark's Make it Wood campaign manager, recently toured some of the wood architecture, design and manufacturing highlights of New Zealand with the Wood Smart Construction Tour. Here are some of his pictures and words describing the experience.

Chris Philpot, Planet Ark's Make it Wood campaign manager, recently toured some of the wood architecture, design and manufacturing highlights of New Zealand with the Wood Smart Construction Tour. Here are some of his pictures and words describing the experience.

Timber framing is one of the world's oldest methods of building with wood. As much art as craft, many timber frames are constructed without metal connections.

Technological advances are creating new opportunities for wood and wood products. As a renewable material, wood has many advantages over the use of resources that are effectively non-renewable. Wood foam is just one of many potential applications for wood that might otherwise be wasted.