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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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Residents’ Happiness: Families move into new homes at Guilsfield, Powys

|Date: 18 September, 2025

Residents’ Happiness: Families move into new homes at Guilsfield, Powys

Residents were welcomed into their new homes at Guilsfield near Welshpool recently. The properties, which ...

Residents were welcomed into their new homes at Guilsfield near Welshpool recently. The properties, which include 28 timber-framed, energy-efficient houses and apartments, have been built by Williams ...

18 September, 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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Two Rivers Housing and the ECLT’s partnership begins to take shape as work starts on 31 new affordable homes for local families

|Date: 4 July, 2025

Two Rivers Housing and the ECLT’s partnership begins to take shape as work starts on 31 new affordable homes for local families

Work has begun to deliver 31 new affordable homes to the village of Eastington in Stroud. A partnership b ...

Work has begun to deliver 31 new affordable homes to the village of Eastington in Stroud. A partnership between Gloucestershire-based housing association Two Rivers Housing and the Eastington Communit ...

4 July, 2025
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Local MP commends ‘vital’ development for North Yorkshire village

|Date: 26 June, 2025

Local MP commends ‘vital’ development for North Yorkshire village

Rishi Sunak MP visited Magna Rise, a new affordable housing scheme under construction in the North Yorksh ...

Rishi Sunak MP visited Magna Rise, a new affordable housing scheme under construction in the North Yorkshire village of East Cowton, commending it as a vital project for ensuring that people can conti ...

26 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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Taylor Lane Timber Frame | Fabric first and MMC Category 2 timber frame housing solutions

|Date: 16 April, 2024

Taylor Lane Timber Frame | Fabric first and MMC Category 2 timber frame housing solutions

Blane Pannell, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Lane Timber Frame, discusses the importance of taki ...

Blane Pannell, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Lane Timber Frame, discusses the importance of taking a fabric first approach to building new homes and the benefits of opting for MMC Category 2 ...

16 April, 2024
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DTS secures CHIC Newbuild Development Framework for timber frame

|Date: 16 February, 2024

DTS secures CHIC Newbuild Development Framework for timber frame

Leading UK offsite timber frame manufacturer, Donaldson Timber Systems (DTS), has been appointed to the C ...

Leading UK offsite timber frame manufacturer, Donaldson Timber Systems (DTS), has been appointed to the Communities and Housing Investment Consortium’s (CHIC) Newbuild Development Framework. As part o ...

16 February, 2024
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Taylor Lane Timber Frame | Educating the next generation

|Date: 21 November, 2023

Taylor Lane Timber Frame | Educating the next generation

Taylor Lane Timber Frame was appointed timber frame supplier for the New Model Institute for Technology a ...

Taylor Lane Timber Frame was appointed timber frame supplier for the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering’s second site, Skylon, situated in the heart of Hereford’s Enterprise Zone. The ...

21 November, 2023
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Donaldson Timber Systems becomes first timber frame manufacturer with verified PMV

|Date: 31 March, 2023

Donaldson Timber Systems becomes first timber frame manufacturer with verified PMV

Donaldson Timber Systems (DTS) has become the first timber frame manufacturer to offer a verified Pre-Man ...

Donaldson Timber Systems (DTS) has become the first timber frame manufacturer to offer a verified Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) score of 55% or more. Following a six-month material and labour cost anal ...

31 March, 2023
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