Record Entries For Timber Design Awards

24 October 2007
Entries in the National Timber Design Awards will be assessed by judges in Sydney on 24 October and the winners announced at the Docklands complex in Melbourne on 29 November.
More than 80 entries from architects, designers and timber engineers include 20 competing in the first engineered wood products category, which carries the coveted Geoffery Sanderson Trophy.
The awards promote outstanding timber design in the built environment professions and have been coordinated each year since 1999 by the Timber Development Association (TDA).
Judges are engineer James Pierce of James Pierce & Associates, Queensland, Gregory Burgess of Gregory Burgess Architects, Victoria, builder Mike O'Donnell, MKO Constructions, New South Wales, and Tony Neilson of Neilson Publishing, New Zealand, publisher of Timber Design magazine.
Awards coordinator Laurel Clarke said the standard of entries was the highest yet and had been boosted by the new engineered wood products category, which had attracted 20 entries.
The Sanderson Trophy for excellence in design using plywood and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is sponsored by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia.
“All entries reflect a strong awareness in the design community of the benefits of designing and building with wood, but many new entrants from the architectural stream have chosen to compete exclusively for the EWPAA award and trophy,” Ms Clarke said.
EWPAA general manager Simon Dorries said the Geoffrey Sanderson Trophy recognised the service given to the industry by “a true entrepreneur and a real innovator” who was president of the Plywood Association of Australasia (PAA) in 1988-89 and 1998-2003.
Master wood craftsman Robert Dunlop, who has been commissioned to create the $1500 trophy, said his work would reflect all aspects of the beauty, strength and versatility of certified plywood and LVL.
The Timber Design Awards will feature extensively in Timber Design magazine, which is distributed to 15,000 architects, builders, designers and timber engineers across Australasia.

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