26 August 2025

Greetings from your WoodWorks team. This week to begin our Timber Tuesday we have NZ’s Techlam sharing their top 5 ways to make timber buildings more affordable including how involving wood experts early on in the design process can improve efficiency during construction. Next up in Winnipeg, Canada, check out a tall and slender building using timber diagrid frames to provide spatial optimisation on a limited footprint.

Canberra’s six-storey 23 National Circuit building has been recognised with a commercial architecture award. Jumping to Germany where the Park Arena Furth has been completed using clever and striking engineering to remove the need for complex steel connectors. In Kensington Market, Toronto a new four-storey housing complex will be built. CLT was chosen because it offered more design flexibility.

Registrations are open for our national WoodWorks Conference, 4-5 November in Rotorua. Sign up now to receive the Super Early Bird rate.