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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EXPAN in 2012 |
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Sunday, 18 December 2011 00:00 |
Excitement is building up to the release of the revolutionary
EXPAN timber technology suite
into the Australian market in 2012. At this stage only a few of the main EXPAN products are available -- but these products permit innovations not seen before in multi-storey developments in this country.
Central to this new product suite is the EXPAN Timber Concrete Composite (TCC) flooring system. This uses timber beams as joists to support a timber slab overlaid by a reinforced concrete slab. Designers are showing a lot of interest in this system, as it combines the acoustic benefits of concrete with the ease of building with timber. Moreover, the 8.5 x 2.4 m floor module size (with a maximum depth of 540 mm) allows for wide span timber floors -- a big leap forward in timber design.
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Chook bedding opens new timber markets |
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Sunday, 18 December 2011 00:00 |
Research by TDA indicates that a national shortage of chicken bedding has created a new market for reused timber - and a means of reducing skyrocketing timber waste disposal costs.
Rising consumption of chicken meat has seen bedding demand increase by 4% p.a. over recent years. Sawdust from sawmills, the main source of chicken bedding, will soon be unable to meet this demand. This is already a problem for chicken farmers in certain areas of the country.
An apparent solution to this lies in reuse of end-of-life wood pallets and packaging that otherwise would be disposed of as landfill. TDA is part of an extensive project to determine the viability of this solution. Key components of the project include analysing bedding moisture levels, particle size, product storage and the risks that non-wood contaminants pose to chicken and human health.
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