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Industry Advisory Groups - FWPA encouraging participation
Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) is restructuring its industry engagement, with greater opportunities to participate, both for members and for non-member stakeholders such as research... Read More

Box Hill student’s CLT multi-residential apartment design wins inaugural Dangerous Designs competition.
Paul Morgan, a building design student at Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute has taken out the first Dangerous Design prize of $500 cash – and is in for a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize or ... Read More

Introducing the National Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life
Putting Australia at the forefront of international best practice Industry, academia and government have partnered to create the National Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life – a new ... Read More

Green building champion joins FWPA
Tony Arnel, previously Chair of the World Green Building Council, has been elected to the Board of Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) Limited at the company’s annual general meeting hel... Read More

AFG: Forestry committee awards National Tree Farmer of the Year for 2016
Roger and Outhay Poltock have been named as the 2016 National Tree Farmers of the Year at the Australian Forest Growers National Conference in Launceston. The award including a $5000 cash priz... Read More

The DANA/FWPA Insights & Outlook Conference
Date: 1st September 2016 Venue: Sheraton Melbourne Hotel,  27 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 DANA has previously held several conferences in Melbourne on a variety of topic... Read More

FWPA to help upskill industry supply chain through new online WoodSolutions Campus
Following a successful pilot program with industry-leading companies, Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) is launching WoodSolutions Campus, a free, online education and skills developme... Read More

WoodSolutions launches Dangerous Designs – a national design competition for bold ideas
WoodSolutions challenges designers, architects, craftsmen and builders to design differently and imagine products, spaces and buildings that incorporate and highlight the aesthetics, durabilit... Read More

Dangerous Designs - FWPA challenges designers to think differently with wood in new online competition
The forest and wood products industry, through Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA), is daring designers to think differently about how they use wood. With a choice of Student and Open se... Read More

Timber is the winner in new furniture design competition award
The WoodSolutions Timber Medallion was an exciting new feature of the 2016 Australian Furnishing Industry Awards (AFIA) and the Australian Contemporary Emerging (ACE) Design Awards. The Timbe... Read More