The industry, he told the audience of 254, had successfully negotiated the challenge of the EU Timber Regulation and taken the environmental risk of using wood away from customers by exercising rigorous due diligence.
Now, with the launch of the Wood for Good LCA database, it is set to provide the construction sector with a comprehensive environmental and technical information resource to make building professionals even more confident and comfortable with specifying and using timber.
The industry, he added, was also moving toward even greater collaboration to put the case for timber more strongly to key decision makers.
The dinner was Jim Halpin’s last as NWTTA president as he now hands over the reins to Frank Duff of International Timber.
The dinner raised £1,965 for the Timber Trades’ Benevolent Society.
