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Industry unites to educate home builders on sustainable timber construction

|Date: 13 November, 2025

Industry unites to educate home builders on sustainable timber construction

The Structural Timber Association (STA) has launched a new initiative in partnership with Future Homes Hu ...

The Structural Timber Association (STA) has launched a new initiative in partnership with Future Homes Hub, the Timber Frame Learning Journey, which aims to show developers how to deliver faster, gree ...

13 November, 2025
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Navigating the Building Safety Act

|Date: 19 August, 2025

Navigating the Building Safety Act

The introduction of the Building Safety Act 2022 has transformed the way buildings are planned, construct ...

The introduction of the Building Safety Act 2022 has transformed the way buildings are planned, constructed and managed across the UK. As the most comprehensive reform of building safety legislation i ...

19 August, 2025
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National Housing Bank: Finance unlocks opportunity — but skills and standards must follow

|Date: 19 June, 2025

National Housing Bank: Finance unlocks opportunity — but skills and standards must follow

Housing Bank unlocks finance — MEDITE SMARTPLY highlights next steps for delivery. The UK Government has ...

Housing Bank unlocks finance — MEDITE SMARTPLY highlights next steps for delivery. The UK Government has announced a new £16bn National Housing Bank to help unlock over 500,000 new homes and speed up ...

19 June, 2025
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Mapping the future of timber in construction

|Date: 13 June, 2024

Mapping the future of timber in construction

LABM Editor Claire Clutten speaks to Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Associati ...

LABM Editor Claire Clutten speaks to Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Association, Andrew Orriss, Chief Operating Officer at the STA and Alex Goodfellow, CEO of Donaldson Off ...

13 June, 2024
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Timber industry hosts its first Net Zero event in Scottish Parliament

|Date: 2 May, 2024

Timber industry hosts its first Net Zero event in Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Timber Trade Association (STTA) brought the timber and wood products industry together at Ho ...

The Scottish Timber Trade Association (STTA) brought the timber and wood products industry together at Holyrood for the first time on the 30th April to host a reception about driving Net Zero awarenes ...

2 May, 2024
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Timber industry to spearhead implementation of key government policy

|Date: 6 March, 2024

Timber industry to spearhead implementation of key government policy

Working in partnership, the Structural Timber Association (STA), Timber Development UK (TDUK) and the Con ...

Working in partnership, the Structural Timber Association (STA), Timber Development UK (TDUK) and the Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) have been appointed joint Secretariat of the Governmen ...

6 March, 2024
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Structural Timber Association speaks at Futurebuild 2024

|Date: 15 February, 2024

Structural Timber Association speaks at Futurebuild 2024

The Structural Timber Association (STA) will be chairing a leading speaking slot at Futurebuild 2024 on t ...

The Structural Timber Association (STA) will be chairing a leading speaking slot at Futurebuild 2024 on the Timber in Construction (TiC) Policy Roadmap under the event’s banner message of ‘CHANGE’. Th ...

15 February, 2024
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Timber construction policy roadmap brings new opportunities for industry growth

|Date: 21 December, 2023

Timber construction policy roadmap brings new opportunities for industry growth

The Structural Timber Association has welcomed the launch of the Timber in Construction (TiC) Policy Road ...

The Structural Timber Association has welcomed the launch of the Timber in Construction (TiC) Policy Roadmap by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), which sets out a framewo ...

21 December, 2023
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Structural Timber Association | Low carbon construction with structural timber

|Date: 19 June, 2023

Structural Timber Association | Low carbon construction with structural timber

Housing associations and local authorities face numerous challenges, including the ongoing quest to help ...

Housing associations and local authorities face numerous challenges, including the ongoing quest to help the UK achieve net zero by 2050. Here, Andrew Orriss of the Structural Timber Association, expl ...

19 June, 2023
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Glidevale Protect responds to latest updates published in STA Advice Note 18

|Date: 23 May, 2023

Glidevale Protect responds to latest updates published in STA Advice Note 18

Glidevale Protect, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of external wall breather membranes, welcomes th ...

Glidevale Protect, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of external wall breather membranes, welcomes the recent updates to Structural Timber Association’s STA Advice Note 18 which highlight the impo ...

23 May, 2023
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