The Precautionary Principle: Eliminating Harmful Products from our Buildings

Our future on this planet depends on us reconnecting with our living, natural life support system rather than its destruction. A key challenge I identified is our heavy reliance on toxic and synthetic chemicals used in building materials.

Bamboo – Really the Sustainable Timber Choice?

Bamboo has much vaunted sustainability credentials – most notably it’s rapidly renewable status. Depending on climate and soil bamboo can grow 3-10cm per day!

Tundra Cladding Naturally Durable Abodo Wood

Tundra: Naturally Durable Cladding

Tundra Cladding is produced from carefully selected heart Douglas fir. Heart Douglas fir is one of the most eco-friendly timbers produced here in New Zealand.

Designing for Human Well-being

Health and well-being embraces both physical health, and the psychological aspects of human performance.

Exterior Wood Coatings – What to Use?

Choosing an exterior wood finish is about as simple as catching a monkey.

Random Width, Random Thickness Timber Cladding

Increasingly we are seeing more variation in not just wood cladding, but also the sizes and profiles used to create a natural timber façade.

Column Cladding – Create a Large Section Solid Wood Look

With an increase in the use of natural timber cladding, designers are searching for ways to create larger columns and beams with a solid wood look.In most instances it is not practical to create such a look with solid wood, the section sizes are simply not available.