28 April 2026

Greetings from the WoodWorks team. First up we have a new event for 22 May: an invitation for a seminar and site visit to the new Fisher & Paykel Head Office nearing completion in Auckland. If you’re keen we suggest you register today as numbers are limited and we think it’s going to be popular!

Watch a great aerial clip of downtown Tauranga where Te Manawataki o Te Papa continues to take shape in the heart of the city centre, with the whare now clearly visible and the museum structure revealing what’s still to come.

WoodWorks October Conference — Call for Presentations. Is anyone in New Zealand or Australia doing work on improving the structural properties of CLT for widening its applications? Looks like the Fast+Epp team is trying new ideas.

And another video for the engineers — a short, technical walkthrough of a concealed connection system that standardises beam-to-beam and beam-to-post joints, and enables free rotation at the beam ends.

Then one for the installers & site managers: VGS PLATE — the lifting screw, finally engineered to go beyond single‑use.

Finally, discover how this breakthrough project is reshaping global digital infrastructure sustainably — introducing the world’s first large-scale mass timber data centre!