Category: Local Focus

Timber Framing in Perth: A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity

For decades, Perth’s residential construction market has been favoured traditional, inefficient masonry construction methods creating the only metropolitan market in Australia that is dominated by double brick walls.  Yet, a convergence of industry pressures and environmental realities is creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity for timber framing to reshape the way homes are built in Western Australia. […]