NZ Wood To Hit Regions

8 August 2007
The landmark NZ Wood programme will be showcased to the forestry and wood industry in a series of road shows around in August – unveiling plans that bring the industry together behind a number of new initiatives to grow the industry and the market for wood.
 “It’s vital that people from the industry attend and find out what NZ Wood is all about. This is a programme that can significantly grow the industry and the market for wood products,” says programme manager Geoff Henley.
The NZ Wood campaign involves research and development, public education, information on the use of wood as a building material, information on design using wood products, and promotion of plantation forests and wood in New Zealand.
The NZ Wood road-show presentations will demonstrate how businesses from across the industry can contribute to and benefit from the programme’s initiatives. The road-shows are the first in a series of campaigns that will involve all industry and the general public.
For more information, go to: www.nzwood.co.nz

Forest and Wood Industry Congratulate Building Code Direction

Woodco, the pan-industry body representing the forest owner’s, contractors and wood processors, has congratulated the Government for moving toward inclusion of the carbon cost of building materials into the building code.
“If New Zealand is striving for its building practices to be genuinely sustainable and environmentally-minded, then the embedded energy of building materials must be factored into our building decisions. The Government has to be congratulated for this excellent step,” says Woodco Chairman Doug Ducker.
“Wood is the world’s most renewable raw material. It is a superior resource which enhances the natural environment, not only by capturing and storing carbon but also the way it stabilises hillsides and filters nutrients from fouling waterways and rivers.”
“Policies which recognise the true environmental credentials of building products will encourage greater use of wood in both our homes and commercial buildings. That can only enhance New Zealand’s sustainability qualifications and our reputation for being environmentally focused,” says Ducker.

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