Article: Modern restaurant in luxury Al Raha Beach Resort to use New Zealand timber

Article: Modern restaurant in luxury Al Raha Beach Resort to use ...
Albawaba.com;  September 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... is set to become a showcase for New Zealand timber. Global Timber Homes, a New Zealand based company, has started work ... This has opened new avenues for New Zealand companies like Global Timber Homes to establish a strong presence here ...

Article: Sustainability - and repositioning New Zealand.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 19, 2006 ;     457 words ... ... ABIX via COMTEX) -- New Zealand's concrete industry ... their life cycle than timber homes. Sustainability issues ... CONCRETE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED BRANZ LIMITED ... RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND. DEPT OF ...

Article: Prefabricated timber homes for hardcore poor
New Straits Times;  March 27, 2006 ;     220 words ...New Straits Times 03-27-2006 Prefabricated timber homes for hardcore poor Edition: Main/Lifestyle KUALA LUMPUR: The Government is considering building prefabricated timber houses ...

Article: Scots pine for timber homes
Evening News - Scotland;  March 12, 1999 ;     373 words ...ARCHITECTS have been urged to follow Scandinavia's example and build more timber homes. A competition for Scottish and Norwegian architects was launched in Edinburgh today to highlight the drive. Architects and students ...

Article: It took just 10 days ; This is the amount of time it took for ...
Evening Standard - London;  January 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... and pleasant to look out on. They took a deep breath and chose the second - and have just completed a pair of distinctive timber homes with impressive green credentials that are now for sale. "We were spurred into action. We had just spent five years painstakingly ...

Article: Timber homes are greenest; ISSUES.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 1, 2009 ;     499 words ...TRADITIONAL brick-and-mortar homes will never be as efficient as wooden houses, Welsh designers believe. Even if they are fitted with an array of solar panels, wood fuel boilers and energy-saving devices, standard homes will always struggle to match up to their timber rivals, a housing conference

Article: Solid-timber homes log cash savings
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 28, 1987 ;     700+ words ...Remember the Lincoln Logs sets you played with as a kid, stacking up the tiny timbers to build a toy home? Now you can do the same thing to build an adult-sized house. Modern homeowners are hitting the do-it-yourself trail with all kinds of prefab housing, and log homes are one of the most popular