14 Sept 2010
Another high-quality crop of entries for the NZ Wood Timber Design Awards has been received this year, despite a tough year for the construction industry.
The entries are now available for on-line viewing and votes can be cast for the People’s Choice Award. Entries include the interior fitout of the new Supreme Court building, wind turbines designed with high-performance wooden blades and “folding whares” for use as emergency shelters following a disaster.Programme manager for NZ Wood, Geoff Henley, says it’s great to see such innovative use of wood in a variety of contexts.
“Increasingly wood is being recognised not only as our most renewable building material, but for its unique qualities of strength and flexibility.
“It’s an engineering material that has stood the test of time. And with recent technological advances in its manufacturing it’s really coming into its own in all manner of new applications.”
Forty-two entries have been received this year across a range of eight categories: Residential Architectural and Residential Engineering Excellence; Commercial Architectural and Commercial Engineering Excellence; Sustainability; Cladding Building Envelope; Commercial Fitout and Outdoor Infrastructure.
An additional new prize – “the clever wood solutions award” – will recognise solutions to tricky design or engineering challenges in wood.
The awards are being presented at a gala evening at Te Papa in Wellington on 11 October.
Source: NZ Wood media release