Timber Topics October 2024 | Fire Safety
Do you know the facts about flame retardant treatments and wood products? Merchants play an important role in promoting fire safety, and in ensuring the products you sell are fit for purpose. Here, we explain some of the key terminology and what you need to know about the products you...
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Energy Retrofit with Timber
External timber doors must work in a demanding environment – directly exposed to varying weather and extremes of heat and cold externally, while contending with a much more temperate climate internally.
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Timber in Swimming Pool Construction
External timber doors must work in a demanding environment – directly exposed to varying weather and extremes of heat and cold externally, while contending with a much more temperate climate internally.
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Timber and Fire Building Regulations
All new buildings, and existing multi-occupied buildings, must comply with the fire performance requirements set out by relevant national building regulations. The requirements are only met if a structure is correctly designed and its components manufactured and built to required standards.
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Timber Topics September 2024 | EUTR Update
The EU Timber Regulation is being replaced by the European Deforestation Regulation for wood and wood products entering the EU market. This will place additional responsibilities on some companies who wish to sell wood products to the EU. Most merchants will not need to make changes unless they or their...
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Timber Topics August 2024 | EPD Database
Merchants, their customers and other built environment professionals can now access Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for the most common timber products on Timber Development UK’s new online EPD database which covers products such as sawn softwood, CLT, LVL, Glulam, I-joists and hardwood plywood.
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Guide to CLT in the early stages
The publication will guide you in words and pictures through the key considerations in the early stages of designing and constructing a CLT building.
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Guide to Assessing CLT Surface Quality
This Guide to assessing CLT surface quality is intended to provide support for developers, project managers, architects, purchasers and others at the start of a project and for inspectors and contractors at the end.
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Timber Topics July 2024 | TDUK Resources
Timber Development UK is working tirelessly to develop new resources for merchants to improve their timber knowledge. Some can be downloaded from our website by logged-in TDUK members, others are freely available online to the entire industry, and all have been created to help further the use of timber as...
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