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Rebuild: time is right for timber

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Call to ‘reinvent wood’ a driver for industry unity and new technology

Wood Council of NZ (Woodco), told us.

Mr Guiver will be speaking on the council’s post Christchurch earthquake response at a landmark conference in Nelson in July – Reinventing Wood.

The conference is a joint initiative of the NZ Pine Manufacturers Association and the Wood Processors Association of New Zealand. It will be one day of papers and a half day bus tour around Nelson and Richmond to visit four new

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Launch of sawmill safety guide a collaborative effort The Victorian Association of Forest Industries, representing the interests of the Victorian timber Industry

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QUEENSLAND’S Minister for Education and Industrial Relations Cameron Dick will launch the Sawmilling Industry Health and Safety Guide 2011 on May 18 at the Cut the Cost & Lift the Load seminar on workplace health, safety and workers’ compensation for the timber industry.

Chief executive of Timber Queensland Rod McInnes said both the launch of the guide and organisation of the seminar demonstrated the benefits of government and key industry experts collaborating.

“Timber Queensland, member companies and Workplace Health and Safety Queensland worked closely to produce the guide which identifies practical ways to address workplace health and safety in these complex industrial settings,” he said.

“The result is a tool that can be used by an ordinary timber industry employee to help improve health and safety in their workplace.”

The same collaborative process has been applied to organising the seminar Cut the Cost and Lift the Load: WHS & Workers’ Compensation for the Timber Industry.

Timber Queensland has joined with WHSQ, WorkCover Queensland, Q-Comp, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland and TABMA Queensland to help CEOs, managing directors,

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business owners, managers, workplace health and safety staff, and rehabilitation and return-to-work coordinators to stay abreast of current obligations and get ahead of imminent changes to workplace health and safety and workers compensation.

“Timber Queensland has been working for several months to ensure this seminar is clearly focused on timber industry requirements,” Rod McInnes said.

“Once again, working collaboratively has produced results; not only will attendees hear vital information from the speakers, they will receive a comprehensive workbook plus a CD tool kit with guides, tools, templates and useful links all focused on the timber industry,“ he said.

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South Australia to sell off timber assets THE South Australian government will forge ahead with the sale of the state’s timber assets.

Treasurer Jack Snelling said an independent assessment of the sale found there would be no significant adverse impact on

the state’s southeast timberproducing hub.

The treasurer said conditions would be imposed on the sale and he guaranteed none of the 200 government forestry industry jobs would be lost.

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industry news

Structural timber plays key role in city rebuild

Performance in quake ‘marvellous’ From Page 1

timber structural commercial and industrial buildings which were once the preserve of steel and concrete.

“I’m sure the conference will be informative and will inspire,” Mr Guiver said.

[The conference runs at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology on July 21 and 22].

“Wood is not going to be everything – no one is expecting that – but it will find an important role,” he said.

“Since the start of NZ Wood, all sections of industry and forestry have worked cooperatively on the promotional and

Timber engineering pointing the way for city’s rebuild in New Zealand.

development program towards a really united sector.

“The long-term goal of the NZ

industry is to increase exports; the more engineered products we export will mean highervalue returns for the industry.”

Mr Guiver said the rebuilding of Christchurch could show real positives for timber. “We can look back in 10 years’ time and say Christchurch was the catalyst for the export of earthquake damage avoidance ‘We are not going to see the concrete and steel industry fall over, but it would be good to see up to 50 multistorey wooden buildings built’ – Andy Buchanan buildings around the world.”

Andy Buchanan, research director of the Sustainable Buildings of the Future consortium, told an Institute of Forestry conference in Auckland last week that timber was a good product for the rebuilding of Christchurch because it was durable, carbon neutral, renewable, and required low energy.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and the new cityscape could be really

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Celebrate innovation and advances in forestry, wood products and design just before the international rugby starts on 9 September. Be part of the forestry and wood processing revolution. If you have anything to do with wood you and your company must be there.

Book your place and get more information, www.fi2011.co.nz The PF Olsen Forest Industries Expo 2011 will showcase the latest equipment, technology and systems from New Zealand and around the world, to an international audience. You can book to attend or register for a display site indoors or outdoors through www.fi2011.co.nz The BNZ Forest Industries Tech Clinics will feature 14 practical and independent clinics that will cover every facet of the forestry sector, from new tools for improving efficiencies in forest management through to the very latest in timber design, construction and building practices. For more information go to www.fi2011.co.nz.

The BNZ Forest Industries Conference on 7 September will focus on innovation and design in timber construction following the tragic earthquakes in Japan and Christchurch (2011), Haiti (2010), Chile (2010) and Italy (2009).

International speakers will cover recent major advances in design, technology and construction. For more information go to www.fi2011.co.nz

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9-12: 42nd annual meeting International Research Group on Wood Protection.

Queenstown,New Zealand.

Venue: Rydges Lakeland Hotel, Queenstown.Dinner at Moonlight Country, Thursday evening, May 12.For more information visit www. irg42.com Contacts: New Zealand – Jeanette Drysdale +64 9 299 9435.

Australia – Jack Norton +61 7 3255 4420.

18: Cut the Cost + Lift the Load workshop. Aimed at CEOs, managing directors, business owners, managers, workplace health and safety staff. Stay abreast of current obligations and get ahead of imminent changes to workplace health and safety and workers compensation in the timber industry with an informationpacked breakfast and workshop.

Venue: Broncos Leagues Club, Red Hill, Brisbane. 7:15 am registration; 7:30 am- 9.15 am breakfast; 9:45 am-2.30 pm workshop. Contact: Shannon Axman-Friend, Events Marketing, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland. Tel: +61 409 348 011. Web: www.cciq. com.au 20-22: Timber & Working with Wood Show. RNA showgrounds, Brisbane. Contact: (02) 9974 1393.

Fax: (02) 9974 3426, Email: info@ eee.net.au 24: TABMA credit seminar breakfast, 7.30 am sharp. Rydges Parramatta. Trade credit insurance, debtors factoring and personal property securities reform.

Trade credit insurance protects receivables against loss due to the insolvency of, or protracted default

by, trade debtors. TABMA together with IMC Newbury has developed a unique industry program underwritten by QBE exclusively for TABMA members. Cost $35 pp (+gst). Contact John Theoharris on (02) 9277 3144. Numbers strictly limited.

25: Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) and New Zealand Institute of Forestry Conference (ANZIF 2011). Auckland NZ. Theme: ‘Pacific Forestry’. Visit www.anzifconference.co.nz 30-June 3: LIGNA Hannover Wood Fair.

JUNE 15-17: SawTECH 2011. Sawing technologies to improve mill performance. Brisbane. Visit www. fiea.com.nz 17-19: Timber & Working with Wood Show. The Entertainment Quarter, Sydney. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02) 9974 3426, Email: info@eee.net.au 26-28: Build NZ. ASB Show grounds, Auckland.

JULY 7: HIA Industry Outlook Luncheon, HIA Home Ideas Centre, 28 Collie Street, Fyshwick ACT. Contact (02) 6285 7300.

13-14: Carbon Forestry 2011.

Key investment drivers and future business opportunities. Auckland, NZ. Visit www.fiea.com.nz 19-20: FTMA Australia National Conference, Newcastle. Join FTMA Australia members on Tuesday, July 29, and network over golf at the Newcastle Golf Club and other activities. Wednesday, July 20,FTMA Australia AGM prior to conference commencing at 10am.

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SEPTEMBER

5-7: NZ Forest Industries Expo 2011. Venue: Rotorua Energy Events Centre, Rotorua. Forest industry leaders and companies from across the world are booking their tickets to participate in the expo (FI2011) and make the most of the 2011 Rugby World Cup while they’re there. Exhibition sites have already been booked by a number of NZ and Australian companies, and inquiries being received from Canada, China, Vietnam and Austria. The expo will showcase the best that Rotorua, the wider Bay of Plenty region and the rest of New Zealand has to offer when it comes to forestry and wood products. Contact: Dell Bawden.

Email: office@bawden.co.nz Website site: fi2010.co.nz

October 21-23: Timber & Working with Wood Show. Melbourne Showgrounds, Epsom Road, Ascot Vale. Contact: (02) 9974 1393. Fax: (02) 9974 3426, Email: info@eee. net.au 31-2 (Nov): 5th International Woodfibre Resources & Trade Conference. Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore.

Contact Pamela Richards on 61 3 5781 0069. Visit www. woodfibreconference.com

july 2012 11-14: AWISA 2012. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Contact: Contact Exhibitions Pty Ltd, PO Box 925, Avalon NSW 2107. Tel: 612 9918 3661 Email: info@awisa.com Web: www.awisa.com

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events

All ready for big forestry festival in New Zealand NEW Zealand’s forestry and wood products sector is set to come to the fore this year during the largest sporting event to be held in the country from September 5 to 7.

The Forestry and Wood Industries Festival in Rotorua will showcase the sector to government officials, companies and visitors from around the world.

The festival will include a range of activities, conferences, exhibitions, displays and competitions leading up to Rotorua’s first rugby game Fiji vs Namibia on Saturday, September 10.

Well prepared, Forest Industries 2011 has re-launched its website with a new-look, new information and on-line booking facilitiy.

The site – www.fi2011.co.nz – has details of all FI2011 events, with on-line booking and payment for quick and easy access. Booking facilities cover daily and three-day passes to the PF Olsen Expo from September 5-7; BNZ FI2011 conference on September 7; BNZ tech Clinics on September 5 and 6; and Lakeland Queen casino cruise and continuous dinner on September 6.

The site also includes a booking form for exhibitors at the PF Olsen Expo, for email to expo manager Dell Bawden at expo@forestevents.co.nz, plus contact details for sponsorship opportunities.

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Also on the site is a list of hotels, motels and home stays offering preferential accommodation rates for those attending events.

Visit www.fi2011.co.nz regularly for updates and new information.

New Zealand’s Winning with Wood is a six-week festival of forest and wood-related activities in September and October, and is a part of the REAL New Zealand Showcase.

The festival covers every aspect of the forestry and wood product sector including technologies (genetics, harvesting, wood drying and processing equipment), wood fibre-based biotech, forest and transport services, timber construction, manufactured wood products and architecture and design.

Some of the events already planned as part of Winning with Wood include the NZ Wood Timber Design Awards in Auckland, Woodfest, Kawerau, and the 2011 FITEC National Training Awards in Rotorua.

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‘This could be a showpiece for the country and for the industry’s future’ From Page 3

special,” he said.

The consortium is advocating use of structural timber to rebuild residential and commercial areas of the city. Engineered timber buildings withstood both earthquakes well, including the Southern Cross Hospital and Christchurch Women’s Hospital.

The consortium, whose main funders include Carter Holt Harvey, Nelson Pine Industries and Wesbeam, has built a prototype wooden building in Christchurch designed to withstand big quakes.

The consortium is developing design guidelines, analysis packages and data sets that give building owners and developers a timber building option which will allow openplan layout with minimal internal load bearing walls, and be carbon neutral.

Mr Buchanan acknowledged that the wood industry had strong competitors.

“We are not going to see the concrete and steel industry fall over, but it would be good to see up to 50 multi-storey wooden buildings built,” he said.

“Whole city blocks were destroyed in the February quake, providing an opportunity for their replacement with welldesigned timber buildings. This could be a showpiece for the country and for the future of the industry.”

A group of construction companies, including Fletcher Building, tapped to rebuild Christchurch city infrastructure damaged by the earthquakes, is looking at more than $2 billion of work over the next five years.

Keith Mackie, chief executive of Solid Wood Innovation in Rotorua, who will speak on enablers to realise wood’s potential at the conference, told T&F enews that the industry

had to lift its game to present complete wood solutions to rebuild anything in wood.

“We don’t have a lot of preengineered solutions to go in and do it. If you ask someone to design a building and start construction in four weeks you would be struggling to find the technology to do it.

“Come on, guys, get on and do it!”

Mr Mackie said for processors it was a case of delivering better performing products

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to underpin better performing systems.

He said timber buildings had performed incredibly well in Christchurch.

“After the first and second quake, performance of wooden buildings was just marvellous.

“Now is the time to get in there and genuinely submit the opportunity for wood.”

Meanwhile, former engineer and Far North district mayor Doug Ducker .. we can meet the demand and the deadline.

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HISTORY IN WOOD

Endeavour replica: a floating museum of recycled timbers docks in Brisbane Bark built with jarrah, tallow wood and tough tuart

By JIM BOWDEN

THE Australian-built replica of James Cook’s HMB Endeavour, one of the world’s most accurate reproductions, set sail out of Brisbane on Sunday taking with it an amazing story of a quest for timbers and the craftsmanship that turned them into a maritime masterpiece.

Captain Ross Mattson took us up the gang plank for a glimpse of a sailor’s life during one of history’s great sea adventures, Cook’s epic 1768-71 world voyage.

We wandered among 30 km of ropes and 750 wooden pulleys secured beneath masts and spars that carry 28 sails spread across 930 sq m of canvas.

Brisbane was the first port of call for the square-rigged bark during a 13-month circumnavigation of Australia.

In the 18th century, ships were

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classified by their hull shape; a ship with a flat bow and square stern was called a bark.

Construction of the Endeavour replica began in 1988 and the ship was launched five years

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Drawings made of the ship during its refit became the key documents for the replica’s construction – a project built on luck, generosity, determination and a search for suitable timbers.

Huge jarrah beams were salvaged from the demolition of a 70-year-old bridge in Western Australia’s Hotham Valley and a disused Army munitions factory in the state’s southwest for construction of the hull. Timbers used above the waterline included tallow wood from New South Wales and Oregon from west coast USA. Tuart, a protected species, also found its way into the ship after storms blew bushland trees over and a school extension usurped an old playground giant. Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala), recognised for its great strength, solidity and durability, was once used to craft whim and wagon wheels, journals for propeller shafts, keels, decking for wagons, telegraph pegs and bridge supports.

“People would sometimes ring up to offer a prime piece of timber they’d been hoarding under a shed for years,” said John Longley, chief executive officer of the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, which finances and manages the replica.

“I used to joke that our natural enemy was the feral furniture maker. We had to get our timber before those blokes grabbed it.”

Coincidence helped, too, as when a shipwright’s father-inlaw living at Port Macquarie in NSW found that 50 great tallow woods were being felled in a realignment of the Pacific Highway. From the stumps he and a mate obligingly cut out Cont Page 9

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HISTORY IN WOOD

In full sail .. the Endeavour replica heads northwards from Brisbane.

Materials faithful to the original as ship takes shape From Page 8

the big ‘hanging knees’ that now support the upper deck.

As this valuable selection of timbers trickled into Fremantle, it fell into the hands of artisans who turned it into the Endeavour. Materials were mostly faithful to the original, but improvements were made where possible. Traditional paints were painstakingly created, but only so their colours could be replicated in the modern coatings used on the ship.

The shipwrights’ biggest challenge came when they had to bend the 7.5 cm thick jarrah hull timbers around the Endeavour’s bluff bow and stern. Early trials with green wood broke one plank in six – a failure rate that would have left them short of timber. They were unwittingly saved when the company storing the hull timber got sick of the project’s

delays, and shifted the wood from a shed into the open.

The planks dried and from then on only a few broke while being bent. In drying, the timber had strengthened and become more flexible.

“If we’d just charged in and built it, it wouldn’t be half the ship it is today,” John Longley said.

“And what a ship. The great quote from Cook was that no sea could hurt her.

“When you sail on her, particularly in a storm, you have this wonderful feeling of this tough little nut of a ship that can take just about anything that’s thrown at her.”

The original ship was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, but after nearly four years of plying the east coast of England it was bought by the Royal Navy for Cook’s first expedition. Its transformation into a vessel of exploration Cont Page 10

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HISTORY IN WOOD

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included conversion of its cavernous coal-holds into space for nearly 100 men, assorted livestock and two years’ provisions.

James Cook made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Cook later mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only some minor errors. He then sailed west, reaching the southeastern coast of the Australian continent on April 19, 1770.

Cook returned to Hawaii in 1779. While turning his back to help launch a long boat, he was struck on the head by villagers and then stabbed to death as he fell on his face in the surf.

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The Eneavour replica drops anchor at the Eagle Street Pier in Brisbane.

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‘We can supply what is needed – we only need to know where and when’ From Page 7

Wayne Brown, who was part of an inspection team looking at damage to houses in Christchurch’s suburbs, says repair rather than demolition could save millions.

Part of a 12-strong engineering team that inspected house damage in March this year, Mr Brown says thousands of timber-framed houses with damaged brick veneer cladding and roof tiles could be easily reclad with new weatherboards and corrugated iron roofs.

He said timber-framed houses that had shifted off their foundations could easily be lifted, shifted and connected to their foundations – “in many cases for the first time”.

“Even those constructed on concrete slabs in low-lying

suburbs could be repositioned at least 800 mm above ground level on to new timber piles, with connections designed to allow easy unbolting, relevelling and reconnecting in the event of further ground deforming seismic activity,” Mr Brown said.

“The upshot is that considerable time, money and heartache could be lessened if remedial on-the-ground action is taken instead of shifting people from the suburbs.”

In essence, the team found flexible structures performed better than rigid ones in the seriously affected areas.

The damage would have been reduced drastically – and with it the danger factor – if the building standards had not been so slack or ignored.

houses, New Zealand timber companies could supply them.

“We are confident in our ability to supply whatever is needed – we only need to know where and when,” he said.

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The excellent performance of old timber-frame, corrugated iron houses that preceded the present building code proved this point, Mr Brown said.

Woodco chairman Doug Ducker said while Christchurch needed

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“Sawmills have stock available, and fabricators – from frame and truss manufacturers, to the prefabricated home suppliers – can and will meet the demand and deadline,” Mr Ducker said.

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PASSAGES

You didn’t mess with Mick Hedley when it came to timber protection Industry loses respected wood scientist

By JIM BOWDEN

“THE wood protection industry has shone with a galaxy of colourful and clever characters, and Mick Hedley was one of the tribal elders of this group, loved and respected for his scientific work across international boundaries.”

Jack Norton, president of the International Research Group on Wood Protection, who departed Brisbane last week for the IRG 42 conference in Queenstown, NZ, was full of praise for Dr Hedley, a longtime IRG member who died in Rotorua on April 30, aged 67.

Born in Retford, Nottinghamshire, in the east midlands of England, Dr Hedley entered the wood preservation industry in New Zealand soon after he migrated there more than 40 years ago. He took up IRG membership in 1977.

He had completed a BSc and a doctorate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, specialising in botany, chemistry and zoology.

He was senior scientist (wood processing and products) at the New Zealand Forest Research Institute (Scion) and although very ill, he was looking forward to catching up with many friends and colleagues in Queenstown, but lost a battle with cancer.

“Mick was internationally known and internationally recognised – a good solid scientist well liked, and a great bloke,” Mr Norton said.

Former CSIRO wood scientist and industry consultant Dr Harry Greaves, a close friend who knew Mick Hedley best, is deeply saddened by the loss.

“Sandra and I were planning to catch up with Mick and his family in Rotorua this week on

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our way to the IRG conference.

“I worked closely with him for 40 years and he was a valuable and respected player on our TM 6 committee.”

Dr Greaves said his friend would also be missed by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.

“He contributed a lot to APVMA. On many occasions Mick and I reviewed data together and an amalgam of this work was used by APVMA to approve or disapprove applications for registration.”

Dr Greaves received the following message from APVMA before he left for New Zealand: “Dr Mick Hedley worked on our many efficacy reviews and the depth of his experience in timber preservation will be sadly missed”.

‘Dr Mick Hedley worked on our many efficacy reviews and the depth of his experience in timber preservation will be sadly missed’ – APVMA Dr Hedley was a tireless worker for wood preservation and in recent years battled on the industry’s behalf over New Zealand’s ‘leaky buildings’ syndrome, rapidly firing warnings on the dangers of untreated wood.

In the early 1990s, a campaign was started to lobby industry groups and councils about the use of untreated, kiln-dried timber. Two reasons were put forward – the first that borontreated timber arrived wet and builders preferred dry timber that would not shrink.

The second was that forestry companies could see cost

Dr Mick Hedley .. a colourful and respected elder in the international wood protection industry.

savings in gearing production to Australian and Asian markets, which did not require treated timber.

Scientists at the Forest Research Institute cautioned against a move to untreated timber. As early as 1991, Mick Hedley warned that boron treatment was “cheap insurance” against borer and rot and the benefits of kiln drying would be reversed if timber became wet.

Dr Hedley recalled at the time: “We had a few battles, which I can’t talk about. We had quite heated arguments with certain chief executives of certain corporates about it. They tried to browbeat me into seeing their point of view, which I resisted.”

He said what was forgotten was that boron treatment had been introduced in the 1950s not just to control borer, but also as a fungicide that prevented rot.

But in 1995, a Standards NZ committee comprising industry representatives amended its timber standard to allow untreated framing timber under certain conditions.

The dissenting voices of two forest research representatives were rejected.

The Institute of Forestry would later tell an inquiry that untreated timber was not advocated as standard practice and was meant to be used only in ventilated conditions where moisture content was below 18%.

“A number of factors resulted in the leaky homes saga becoming so huge in New Zealand,” Dr Hedley said.

“Firstly, untreated timber became legal in 1995 which was a huge mistake. That happened to coincide with European building styles – which included smaller eaves, complicated designs and monolithic cladding – becoming fashionable.

“Those designs, combined with untreated timber in the warm and wet New Zealand climate led to leaky homes. At the time scientists were warning the industry of potential problems – we never supported the use of untreated radiata pine framing, but the industry didn’t listen.

“Our work involved, among other experiments, building wall frames and infesting them artificially with decay and then providing warmth and moisture to see how quickly the decay occurred or, more importantly, to see which treatments best prevented the onset of decay.

“The research was designed to come up with best practice guidelines for the building industry so that we could try and avoid issues like this in the future.”

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Early stand by research scientists on boron justified by NZ housing decision weather.

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Mark another one up for Mick!

a hot topic at IRG 2011 in Queenstown and Mick Hedley would have loved to be in the thick of it.

Dr Hedley is survived by his partner Maureen and his two sons Richard and Christopher and four grandchildren.

The application of boron in timber treatment will be a hot topic at IRG 2011 and Mick Hedley would have loved to be in the thick of it.

The NZ Department of Building and Housing recently released a single framing hazard for timber. It has embraced research conducted over the past eight years on the durability of treated framing and has confirmed that timber treated to the H1.2 retention level of boron (0.4% m/m BAE) provides satisfactory resistance to decay and the spread of fungi within the building if the framing gets wet.

Basking in the midnight sun in Tromso, Norway, during an IRG conference in 2006 are, from left, Dr Harry Greaves, his wife Sandra, Maureen Bray, her partner Dr Mick Hedley, and Julie Bravery, a delegate from the UK. Pictures courtesy of Harry Greaves.

Scientific research based on Dr Hedley’s findings, now shows that boron at the H1.2 retention level offers comparable protection to LOSP at the H3.1 level for framing timber.

The department is satisfied that

boron treatment at the H1.2 level will provide adequate protection and robustness for framing inside the building envelope, including protection during the construction phase while the timber is exposed to

Editor’s note: Along with Mick Hedley, the IRG organisation lost another three valuable members this year – Rex Johnston, who headed the wood protection group in ForestsNSW, Dr RolfDieter Peek from Hamburg, Germany, editor of the IRG newsletter, and Jerzy Wazny of Poland who took sabbatical leave from Warsaw Agricultural University some years ago to work with Dr Harry Greaves at the CSIRO laboratories in Melbourne. Combined, the four scientists represented more than 100 years’ experience in wood preservation.

Conference focuses on forests in the Pacific MORE than 300 forestry professionals from 20 countries have assembled at Sky City, Auckland to discuss the future of forestry in the Pacific region.

The 7th combined conference of the NZ Institute of Forestry and the Institute of Foresters of Australia is being held during the United Nations Year of Forests.

Keynote speaker Jan McAlpine, director of the United Nations Forum on Forests, will present on the state of the world’s forests with particular reference to forestry in the Pacific Region, their potential contribution and future role.

“Every one of us, all seven billion people on Earth, has our physical, economic and spiritual health tied to the health of our forest ecosystems,” Ms McAlpine said.

“Throughout Forests 2011,

we will celebrate this intricate, interdependent relationship between forests and people.”

Ms McAlpine said forest loss was accelerating at a rapid pace across much of the three basins, and forest degradation and destruction now accounted for 20% of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.

The ANZIF conference is held every four years, alternating between New Zealand and Australia, and normally attracts members from just the two institutes. But in the UN International Year of Forests, a special effort has been made to attract forestry professionals from around the Pacific.

The conference started last Monday with a formal Maori welcome, followed by the official opening by Sir Tumu Te Heuheu, paramount chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa.

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Jan McAlpine .. spiritual health tied to forests.

“We invited Sir Tumu because we wanted to recognise the increasing importance of Maori in New Zealand forestry,” the president of the NZ Institute of Forestry Dr Andrew McEwen said.

Other keynote speakers include Jim Carle, program

director of FAO, Rome (Forestry development in the smaller and developing economies with a focus on the Pacific islands and states); Dr Andy Buchanan, Canterbury University, Faculty of Engineering (The Christchurch earthquake, is there a wood-based solution?); Paul Stocks, deputy secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (A review of the Kyoto Protocol and implications for forestry and wood products); Dr Sadanandan Nambier, former chief research scientist, CSIRO (Forestry for social development: are we making a difference?); and Dick Adams MP, chair of the Australian Forest Review (Are forestry practices meeting community expectations, what are we doing, what should we be doing, how do we keep on side with local communities?).

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ON THE ROAD

Holden Sportswagon comes with a mountain of cruise, safety features So comfortable and roomy you could sleep in it “HOW would you like to wear that on your eye for a wart?’ joked my young driving companion as we turned off the Bruce Highway on the Sunshine Coast and approached the gorilla-shaped mountain that was squeezed up from a volcanic plug 27 million years ago.

At 364 m, Tibrogargan is one of the highest of the Glass House mountain cluster, named by Captain James Cook who thought they looked like the glass factories he knew in Yorkshire, England, when he spied them from his bark Endeavour as it sailed up the eastern coast in 1770.

We found a shady picnic site and climbed out of the new Holden Commodore VE Series 11 Sportswagon to again contemplate its performance on our run from Byron Bay, destination Noosa.

Holden has added a good deal of sex appeal to the humble wagon with a better standard of features than the Commodore sedan and a distinctly European flavour aimed at enticing motorists away from the SUVs. On the road, our model with some added features was priced at around $45,790 with prices through the range up to $63,990 r.r. for the V8-powered Calais V. But you get a lot of bang for your buck – all models come with alloy wheels, reverse parking sensors, rear vision camera, cruise control and strong safety features including six airbags, stability control and ABS as standard.

The Sportswagon is surprisingly nimble when climbing mountain roads and although there’s additional weight over the rear wheels, steering is spot on.

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The new Holden VE Series Sportswagon pauses beneath Mount Tibrogargan.

It provides a 3.0L Sidi direct injection V6 and six-speed auto with Active Select, is bioethanol capable and delivers 190 kW of power.

There’s 895 litres of boot space and up to 2000 litres of cargo room when the rear seats are folded down, more than enough to move my young friend’s “lifetime of stuff” up to the Sunshine Coast. The Sportwagon seats, unlike those in the sedan, fold flat, so there is enough space, Holden says, to sleep in the tail.

There’s also a two-position cargo blind, four load hooks on the floor, an extra four hooks, two retractable shopping bag hooks, a storage bin, a 12V power outlet and a lowmounted light in the load area.

The Sportwagon weighs 91 kg more than the VE sedan, but has a good-looking back end that Holden says maintains the car’s 50:50 weight balance.

The wagons have 72 unique body panels and, for safety, retain the front, side and curtain airbags and stability control of the sedan.

On the open road, cruising at 100km/hour, the V6 models can be relatively fuel efficient;

Generously padded seats in the Sportswagon make for comfortable driving on short or long hauls.

Holden claims a fuel usage figure of 11.1 litres per 100 km on a combined city/highway cycle.

Vision is excellent and for a large car it gives a tight turning circle and solid tractability.

The Commodore is Australia’s top-selling car, a title it has held for the past 14 years. Dollar for dollar against the imports, the improved Series II is strong buying value.

New cosmetics include a deeper grille, chrome trims, bigger, sharper-looking alloy wheels and a subtle lip-spoiler integrated into the line of the boot.

But the real changes are under the skin – small improvements at the wheel, improved fuel consumption, bio flex-fuel

capability, revised engine and transmission mountings, improved transmission mapping, underfloor aerodynamics, and Holden’s all-new iQ touch-screen ‘infotainment’ system.

Whether hooking up to the Bluetooth, or programming the sat-nav, the touch-screen functionality of the iQ is clear and intuitive.

Except for the number of cylinders, both the SV6 and SS come with the same level of specification, trim and features.

The SV6 Sportwagon, however, unlike the SV6 utility and sedan, is not available in manual. The SS can be specified in sixspeed manual or six-speed auto across each model variant.

The design and engineering of the Sportwagon mean a lot of families could be lured to the new Holden as an alternative to their big four-wheel-drives. The body shell is stiffer and stronger which reduces booming and road noise from the tail.

Altogether, a mountain of good reasons for a family choice vehicle.

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With this is the Freehold Land including Buildings, Office Complex, Weighbridge, Amenities and 10t gantry over the Green mill.

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