As featured by PEFC International We are delighted to present the impressive winning images of Certfor/PEFC Chile’s 2020 ‘Experience Forests, Experience PEFC’ photo contest. The Chilean jury chose the three winners out of more than 1,700 photos that entered the national contest. The winning images show impressive landscapes and wildlife in…
Responsible Wood is an Accredited Standard Development Organisation and has responsibility for developing and maintaining Australian Standard AS 4707 Chain of Custody for Forest Products Responsible Wood announces the commencement of the 5 yearly review of AS 4707. AS 4707 specifies the environmental, economic, social and cultural requirements that must…
Responsible Wood Timber Feature, page 65 of the Master Builder Queensland magazine The award winning Mon Repos Turtle Centre has been featured in the latest edition of the Master Builder Queensland magazine. Commissioned by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, the centre underwent a $22 million dollar rejuvenation and…
As featured by PEFC International PEFC Italy has announced the stunning winners of its 2020 ‘Experience Forests, Experience PEFC’ photo contest. The images entered into the fourth edition of the contest show the beauty of Italy’s forests, mountains and landscapes. The winning images were chosen taking into consideration the rating of a…
THE sustainability managers from the construction team behind Sydney Metro Northwest, Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project in recent years, have accepted the 2019 Richard Stanton Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management. The award and prize recognises the life of a man devoted to the forest industry, both…
As featured by PEFC International PEFC and the World Architecture Festival (WAF) are continuing their collaboration, awarding the Best Use of Certified Timber Prize for the third time. Due to the current global pandemic making physical meetings difficult, the World Architecture Festival will go virtual in December, and be back as a live event in…
As featured by PEFC International The vision to build a hotel entirely of wood has become a reality in the 5* Green Spa Hotel MalisGarten. The hotel opened in June in the Zillertal valley in Austria. MalisGarten is the world’s first 5-storey hotel made entirely of solid wood. PEFC-certified glue laminated timber…
As featured by PEFC International This August, we hear more about the photo ‘Three generations’, that has brought Peter Vörös a runner up position in our 2019 ‘Experience Forests, Experience PEFC’ photo contest. Peter tells us more about the image and why it is so important to show children the wonders…
Do you want to give feedback on the draft Australian / New Zealand Standard for Sustainable Forest Management but feel you need more information on how this document is changing? Make sure you register for our upcoming workshop. Taking place on Tuesday, September 15 2020 (12.00pm AWST, 2.00pm AEST and…
Responsible Wood is sharing the stories from those at the frontline, managing and preserving forests amidst the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season, Black Summer, the impact of those fires and the recovery efforts over recent months. In the last of this three-part series, we look at the longer-term recovery efforts to…
