Following Pauline Kelly raising the apparent inconsistency of Government timber procurement policy with Dennis Walker at the recent meeting with CPA Trade Association Presidents, I met civil ... Read more »
BWF representatives attended a meeting this morning to finalise the information report which forms the first stage of the Windows Roadmap project. Now we know what the problems are, we need ... Read more »
The Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS) has become the first tropical timber certification scheme in the Asia Pacific region, and the second in the world after the Gabonese Forest ... Read more »
Listening to the Olympic Delivery Authority representatives describing progress on the development of the London 2012 site, you realise why the International Olympic Committee’s ... Read more »
Only 44% of businesses who have signed up to CompeteFor have fully completed their business profile. Speaking at the latest Construction Products Association Olympic briefing this ... Read more »
Wood for Good ran a television advertising campaign in 2001 which included the statement that as one tree is cut down, two are planted. Over the years it seems to have seeped slowly onto ... Read more »
A timber supplier told me they’d had quite a good April after a slow start to the year He wasn’t getting over-excited, however He preferred to see it as a classic case of need more ... Read more »
At the beginning of this week, there were 28 confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK and another 333 possible cases under investigation. The Health Protection Agency has advised that anyone ... Read more »
A restructuring of the British Woodworking Federation secretariat has re-shaped the organisation to help it meet the challenges which will arise from reduced income forecasts over the next two ... Read more »
The construction press today is leading on the report produced for UCATT by the Centre for Corporate Accountability which found that half the workers killed in accidents on construction sites ... Read more »
Pauline Kelly represented the BWF at the Construction Products Association’s annual meeting between the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) last night. ... Read more »
