Wood
Awards 2007 timber joinery
The Wood Awards 2007 - CALL FOR ENTRIES
Entries are now open for The Wood Awards 2007 – the premier
award for wood in buildings and furniture. Now in its fifth
year, these awards can bring true recognition to professionals
working successfully with wood. With permission from the owner
of qualifying projects, anyone associated with a qualifying
building or furniture project - from the timber supplier to the
designer - can enter a project. With categories and special
awards covering nearly every type and size of project in
construction, joinery and furniture, the compact and bijou are
as likely to win as the grand design.
The categories, as last year, are Commercial & Public Access,
Private, Structural, Conservation /Restoration and Furniture.
Additional awards may also be made at the discretion of the
judges for a Small Project, any Innovation, or the Best Use of
British Timber – all of which are irrespective of category – as
well as an Offsite Manufactured Project. See www.woodawards.com
for Conditions of Entry.
Glenn Howells Architects, Gold Award winner in 2006 with The
Savill Building, said “We were absolutely thrilled to receive
the three awards for Commercial Category Winner and Gold Award
Winner, Structural Category Winner and Best Use of British
Timber Winner 2006. This is the first time a project at this
event has won three awards in one night. In view of all the hard
work that the whole team and client put into the project over 6
years, we always hoped that it would be well received, however
this result has surpassed our expectations”.
And Simon Conder, architect for Pinions Barn, 2005’s Gold Award
winner said: “For a small practice to win the Gold Award in the
Wood Awards, up against the likes of Foster, Miralles, Rogers
and Siza, was a huge surprise and fulfilled all our David and
Goliath fantasies. It has definitely boosted both our own self
confidence and our public and professional profile.”
The Wood Awards recognise excellence in the design, production,
installation or commissioning of outstanding examples of
joinery, wood structures and furniture, completed between May
2006 and May 2007. The shortlist will be announced and exhibited
for the fourth year running at 100% Detail at Earls Court in
September, and the award winners will be announced at The Wood
Awards Party at Carpenters’ Hall in London in October.
Over twenty generic sponsors of the awards continue to be led by
the American Hardwood Export Council, the Carpenters’ Company,
the Forestry Commission, and wood. for good.
The Wood Awards is the premier award for wood in buildings and
furniture.
Sponsors of The Wood Awards 2006 include the American Forest &
Paper Association, American Hardwood Export Council, BRE,
British Woodworking Federation, Cadw, Canada Wood, Carpenters'
Company, ConFor, English Heritage, Forestry Commission,
Furniture Makers’ Company, Ghana Forestry Commission, Historic
Scotland, Institute of Carpenters, Institute of Wood Science,
Malaysian Timber Council, TRADA, Timber Trade Federation, Timber
Trades Journal, UKFPA, WMSA (Woodworking Machinery Suppliers
Assn.) and wood. for good.
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