Sustainable timber from the UK and Scandinavia has been used in the construction of a millennium environment centre in the Midlands.
Pine, ash and redwood were chosen for the £2m timber-framed Brocks Hill Millennium Park and Environment Centre, due to be opened in April by TV environmentalist Tony Soper.
Centre environment officer Margaret Smith said: ‘We’ve got timber windows, timber everything. Steel has very intensive energy production but timber is less so.’
A total of 15,000 trees have been planted in the 67-acre park around the centre.
