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PREVIOUSLY… IN TTJ
Delving into the TTJ archive, we look back at some of the issues and news affecting the timber trade in previous decades
HOUSEBUILDERS LOOK TO TIMBER FRAME FOR CASH AND ENERGY BENEFITS Major home builders say they are planning to turn to timber frame in 1994, citing cost, cashflow control and energy efficiency as the system’s key selling points. Among contractors who are either already building timber frame homes or considering it are Bovis, Fairclough, Beazer, Bellway and Taylor Woodrow. Fairclough has been using timber frame on half its sites for the last two years and aims the bulk of its homes at first-time buyers. Its chief surveyor, Wayne Stutchbury, told TTJ: “The reason we started doing timber frame was the cashflow benefit.” It allows Fairclough to “hit the go button” on construction once deposits had been paid, he said.
The decision to build using increasing amounts of timber frame, added Mr Stutchbury, is helping to overcome prejudice generated 10 years ago by a widely-criticised World in Action programme. “We haven’t had any adverse comments, period, with timber frame. Our view is that it’s slightly more expensive but there are other advantages,” he said.
Fairclough views timber frame as a key factor in meeting tougher house energy conservation regulations due to be released next year.
SEABOARD VP PREDICTS NEXT RECESSION
1983
“It will be a better year in 1984 but no boom and the next recession will be 1986-87 but it will not be so severe as the last.”
These were the predictions of Tod Cameron, senior vice-president of Seaboard Lumber Sales at a dinner in his honour given by Seaboard International (Timber & Plywood) Ltd in London. He blamed the relative strength of the US dollar for upsetting the market.
It had forced Canada to
concentrate on dollar account countries, where it had been successful.
DTE BUILD IRISH TRUSS PLANT
2003
Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) is building a trussed rafter and engineered floor plant in Ireland.
The fast-expanding sawmill and engineered timber product firm said the investment will enable it to tap into the growing Irish construction market, which is forecast to build 50,000 homes a year for the next five years. The 20,000ft2
plant is being built on
a three-acre site in Mountmellic, north of Portlao. Construction is scheduled to be completed in spring 2004 and production capacity will be 2,500-3,000 trussed rafters a week.
CROWN ACQUIRES FINNISH SAWMILL
2013
Crown Timber Group has acquired the assets of a Finnish sawmill in a move to increase its wood sourcing capabilities on the back of improved demand in the UK. Crown has acquired the former Haminan Veistosaha (Havesa) sawmill in the port of Hamina, in the south-east of Finland, especially to secure its expertise in TR26 and CLS production. The company previously sourced some of its softwood
products from Havesa, being its largest customer for many years, but the mill ceased operations a year ago after a period of administration.
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