Feb 15, 2024
Only a few days remaining. On 28th February 2024 starts the 13th Wood Conference in Cape Town.
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Jan 24, 2022
After ten years of positive reactions the success story of the Wood Conference continues Virtually on the 24 February 2022.
May 26, 2020
"From the beginning, we enjoyed the smell of wood. It's an enormous difference from brick buildings, which tend to feel damp and cold during construction.” Says the owner of a beautiful wooden house, which shows how a current interpretation of a country house made from Novatop CLT looks like!
Apr 9, 2020
Customers are increasingly looking for facades that can naturally age
Apr 6, 2020
Schoolchildren from Psár (near Prague, Czech Republic) were welcomed in September by a brand new school, in classes they will not only learn history or mathematics, but also respect for wood as a natural part of the space that surrounds them.
Jan 23, 2020
Fundokuhle Kubheka and his inspiring urban concept with CLT and a new take on social housing took the second place in the Timber Competition. His prize was a weekend in the Hout Bay House, a showhouse and international research project built from CLT. We have asked Fundokuhle Kubheka about his experience with Timber competition and timber as a material.
Jan 13, 2020
One of the main goals of the Timber Competition & HWZ International team was to encourage a younger generation of architects to create new designs using wood and respond to the worldwide trend of climatically responsible construction.
Oct 11, 2019
Carla Jooste was chosen by an international Jury as the winner of the Timber Competition, with the aim to motivate young South African Architects to design a modern sustainable timber construction. The Competition organized by HWZ International SA was open to all South African Architects under the age of 35. Visit the Competition’s homepage and look at the 10 inspiring designs which was submitted in the final as well as Carla Jooste’s winning project.
Sep 26, 2019
The Hout Bay House is a showhouse and international research project built from CLT (cross laminated timber) located in Cape Town. The house is open to architects and public interested in green building and shows how a modern timver construction performs in the climatic conditions of Western Cape.
Sep 25, 2019
“As an Architect, I would love to live in a Timber house. I believe, timber construction has the ability to bring warmth and a feeling of “being grounded” in a space. A home is a place of warmth, memories and inspiration and therefore incorporating timber into such a special and significant place would be ideal.”, says Carla Jooste, winner of the Timber Competition who have just spent several days with the Prodesi/Domesi Architects in the Czech Republic, visited the Novatop CLT production and met the team who offers sustainable building solutions for the South African Market in cooperation with HWZi.