Members of the UK Forest Products Association (UKFPA) have been given the lowdown on current BRE projects involving homegrown and imported timber.
The UKFPA’s AGM at the BRE’s headquarters included briefings by BRE chief executive Dr Peter Bonfield and Ed Suttie, director of the organisation’s timber division.
Tulloch Timber (Nairn) Ltd’s Tony Mitchell, who was re-elected UKFPA president at the AGM, said a tour of the BRE’s Innovation Park, which features seven full-scale low-carbon houses, had illustrated the opportunities for timber and wood products in sustainable construction, as well as showing the challenge presented by alternative materials and technologies.
UKFPA executive director David Sulman said the association continued to address the “nuts and bolts” which relate to members’ businesses and that UKFPA’s focus remained on “substance and not spin”.
