
VGS PLATE has been designed specifically for lifting and for conscious reuse.
Its colour variation makes it easy to read each use cycle: wear can be checked at a glance.
Verified reuse, clear process, for safety that is visible.
The lifting screw, finally engineered to go beyond single‑use:
Check out the video: https://lnkd.in/dvn9V-KD
WoodWorks Issue – 28 Apr 2026
Welcome
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!


WoodWorks Seminar & Site Visit

Te Manawataki o Te Papa

Timber beams that span further with less material

One for the engineers

VGS PLATE

