Timber Development Association of New South Wales (TDA)
Welcome to the corporate website of the Timber Development Association of New South Wales (TDA). The TDA is an industry funded association representing all segments of the timber industry, from manufacture to supply.
We provide timber-related services to the timber industry, timber traders, tradespeople, architects, teachers, students and the general public with the aim of promoting the educated use of timber and timber-related products.
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TDA and Sustainability |
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TDA developed a sustainability statement many years ago, repeated below, for assistance in carrying out decisions in our operations.
Sustainability Statement
The TDA will integrate the
principles of ecologically sustainable development
into all our decision making processes, and our own activities, to mutually ensure the optimisation of welfare of this generation and all future generations. We will continue to encourage the industry we represent to be dynamic and develop business practices and products that promote sustainability. We aim to ensure the long term health of the natural resource and achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability within our industry.
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TDA a founding member of Wood Council Australia |
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Wood Council Australia
is made up of a group of existing state timber industry technical bodies. These bodies have agreed to pool their expertise and to cooperatively rationalise their individual activities in order to concentrate on particular areas of expertise – delivering better value for money to industry members. TDA is at the forefront of this initiative and has agreed to specialise in fire and acoustics and post-consumer wood. |
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Illegal logging law coming soon |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 00:00 |
The final detailed form of the Australian Government's Illegal Logging Prohibition legislation is still under debate, but the broad requirements are now clear. Very substantial penalties—up to five years jail and/or confiscation of timber—will apply to those who are found to have imported illegally harvested timber products or processed illegally harvested Australian logs.
The new law will compel importers and domestic processors to follow a set due diligence process to demonstrate that they have done the utmost to minimise the risk that their timber has been illegally harvested. In addition, importers will be required to make a binding declaration at the border that they have undertaken the required due diligence. Companies that fail to do so will face a range of stiff fines.
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World Conference on Timber Engineering coming Down Under |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 00:00 |
The
World Conference on Timber Engineering
(WCTE) is in Auckland July 15-19, 2012, the first time that this annual conference has come to the Southern Hemisphere. This puts the very latest in timber research and development within easy reach of the Australian building and timber industries.
The conference will focus on commercial scale timber construction. Over 300 presentations will be given on a great range of topics grouped together under daily themes. Those themes cover timber engineering challenges and solutions, designing for extreme events, the future of timber engineering… and much more.
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