There are two new categories in this year’s Irish Timber Trade Association‘s (ITTA) Irish Joinery Awards.
The organisers have also introduced a change in the eligibility requirements. Previously all projects had to be located and manufactured in the Republic of Ireland. Now projects manufactured outside of Ireland are also eligible, provided they are located in the Republic of Ireland.
Main sponsor for the 2002 awards is the American Hardwood Export Council, along with TEDB, the Timber Export Development Division (Forestry Commission of Ghana) and the Malaysian Timber Council.
This year sees a significant development with COFORD, Ireland’s National Council for Forest Research and Development, joining as a co-sponsor (www.coford.ie).
Its involvement has resulted in the addition of one of the new award categories – Innovative Use of Wood in Joinery Applications. COFORD operations director Joe O’Carroll said: ‘This is an excellent opportunity to profile the use of Irish wood.’
The other new category is ‘A Very Large Project of Special Interest’.
The five remaining categories are: a public building; a commercial project; a private/residential project; a conservation/restoration project; furniture, commissioned for a project in the Republic of Ireland.
