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The UK Wood Awards has announced its shortlist for this year’s awards, which includes a bright red 170m water-crossing and a majestic 20-seat oak banqueting table. Source: Timberbiz The 30 shortlisted projects, which are in the running for awards in six different building categories and four furniture and object categories, are located across the United Kingdom, from the Cornish coast to the Lake District National Park. Among the 20 shortlisted buildings is a barrel-vaulted extension to Westminster’s coroner’s court and a redevelopment of a historic water mill on the River Test in Hampshire. The shortlist also features a new CLT-framed social housing terrace by Hackney Council and a vibrant performing arts hub in Camden showcasing both reused and engineered timber. The 10 shortlisted furniture and object projects include a freestanding demountable Douglas fir kitchen and a collection of sculptural vessels, handcrafted from local hardwoods. A playful steam-bent ash rocking chair and an innovative jetty structure made from forest thinnings are also shortlisted. From over 200 entries, the shortlisted projects have been carefully selected by two expert juries. The winner of each project category will be announced live at an evening ceremony on Wednesday, 19 November at Carpenters’ Hall in London. All category winners will then compete for the prestigious Gold Award. All shortlisted projects are listed below: Furniture and Objects: A Forest Datum by the Design + Make Post Grad Course, Architectural Association Karyo Rocking Chair by Isabelle Moore Design A Banqueting Table Reimagined by Box 9 and TedWood Somer Kitchen at Balbougie Steading by Somer Levity Collection by Katie Walker Furniture and Gaze Burvill The Growth Project by Darren Appiagyei Pebble Jumble by Jan Hendzel Studio Red Knot by Laura Welsh Her Captain’s Chair by Lily Hitchcock Design Rinato Coffee Table by Dominic Grasso Buildings: Vert, London, by Diez Office Westminster Coroner’s Court, London, by Lynch Architects Amento, Suffolk, by James Gorst Architects Walworth Town Hall, London, by Feix & Martin The Armadillo, Norfolk, by Unknown Works Upminster Tithe Barn, Upminster, by Purcell Rafter Walk, London, by Asif Khan Studio Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, London, by Feilden Fowles Pine Heath, London, by Studio Hagen Hall Two-Family House, Newquay, by Rundell Associates Bay House, Devon, by McLean Quinlan Young’s Court Development at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by Stanton Williams Paradise, London, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Beech Court Pavilion, Abingdon, by David Morley Architects Farmer’s Arms Cold Food Store, Lake District, by Hayatsu Architects Chowdhury Walk, London, by Al Jawad Pike Mill House and Maker’s Workshop, Hampshire, by Cooke Fawcett Architects The Cowshed, Cotswold, by Design Storey Architects Roundhouse Works, London, by Patrick Dillon and Reed Watts Architects New Wave House, London, by Thomas-McBrien Architects.

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The International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC) has welcomed Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands and one of the largest manufacturers of wood products in North America, as its 23rd member company. Source: Timberbiz Weyerhaeuser owns or manages approximately 10.4 million acres of timberlands in the United States, as well as additional public timberlands managed under long-term licenses in Canada. The company has been an industry leader in sustainable forestry for more than a century and manages 100 percent of its timberlands on a fully sustainable basis in compliance with internationally recognized sustainable forestry standards. “The decision by one of the world’s largest forest and forest products companies to join the ISFC will help us scale our impact to new levels,” said Dr David Brand, Independent Chair of the ISFC. “Weyerhaeuser’s deep knowledge, expertise and long-term perspective will be invaluable as we work together to ensure the role of sustainable forest management is well-understood and continues to provide immense impact in the world.” Weyerhaeuser’s responsible stewardship includes managing its land for multiple uses, including natural climate solutions such as forest carbon, renewable energy, carbon capture and sequestration, conservation and more.

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The American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced that Netflix has committed to a 15-year contract to purchase verified carbon credits produced through AFF’s Fields & Forests project (F&F), an Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) carbon project that partners with family landowners to transition their underused fields to thriving, working forests. Source: Timberbiz Netflix’s investment will help launch the first 6,000 acres and expand the project across the US South, providing additional revenue streams to rural landowners while planting trees to combat climate change. “Netflix’s partnership shows what’s possible when business and nature come together. With the right investment and science, natural climate solutions can be both a powerful and credible tool to address our most pressing conservation challenges.” said John Ringer, Senior Director of Project Finance and Environmental Markets at AFF. “We’re grateful for Netflix’s leadership, and we invite other companies to follow their lead by investing in new approaches that support America’s rural communities and family-owned forests.” Netflix provided critical early-stage financing for F&F through an innovative financing approach: milestone prepayments. By tying upfront financial support to key milestones such as acres enrolled, milestone prepayments help F&F offer robust financial and technical resources to more landowners. F&F is designed for small-acreage landowners who have historically been locked out of the voluntary carbon market due to high upfront costs and programmatic complexity. To make the project accessible, AFF pays for and handles all site preparation and tree planting and provides landowners with ongoing technical support and annual payments throughout their 30-year contracts. To date, F&F has enrolled 2,500 acres of family-owned lands, set to plant 1.4 million new trees, and committed US$2 million to landowners in the form of direct payments. By 2032, F&F aims to enrol 75,000 acres, estimated to produce 4.8 million carbon credits and support family landowners across the US South, with aims to continue growing the program beyond that scale. “This land is my only connection to my grandma. And I want it to provide for my daughter as she grows up,” said Alisha Logue, a Georgia landowner enrolled in F&F. “Fields & Forests has given me a way to protect and ensure my family’s legacy.”

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