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Weathertex is far from your new experimental kid on the block material. This cladding system has been around for 60 years and comes loaded with sustainability features. “It’s 97 per cent hardwood, 3 per cent wax and has no resins, glues, formaldehyde or silica,” managing director of Weathertex Jason O’Hagan tells The Green List. Which…
THE GREEN LIST: In the same week that New Zealand’s NMIT Arts & Media Building was being publicised as the first multi-storey seismic design building constructed from timber, the US Steel Framing Industry Association came out fighting with Steel industry responds to claims of wood’s sustainability.
The soaring popularity of timber is helping the building and construction market embrace sustainability certification.