20th Competition

Platinum Sponsor - Grand-Prix Award

WoodSolutions is an industry initiative to provide information on timber and timber products to professionals and companies involved in building design and construction.

Resourced by Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA), WoodSolutions is a collaborative effort between FWPA members and levy payers. It is supported by industry peak bodies and technical associations.

The WoodSolutions website will provide a central repository for all technical and product information on wood and its use in building and construction. It will allow users to easily find information on a topic, from cursory summaries through to detailed technical information.

Silver Sponsor - People's Choice Award

Silver Sponsor - Timber Flooring Award

Hurford Hardwood provides a broad spectrum of colour choices for the timber requirements of commercial and residential timber projects via the dry-milling of a wide range of indigenous Australian hardwood.

Every hardwood timber product range is sourced from logs that comply to the strict conditions established by the Department of Primary Industries to minimise environmental impact and ensure ongoing resource sustainability.

Our state of the art manufacturing facilities, our commitment to quality assurance and our in-house training program synergise with the AFTA quality assurance system, to ensure that all Hurford Hardwood timber products will continue to meet exacting standards.

Silver Sponsor -  Furniture & Joinery  Award

Hurford Wholesale through its “state of the art” facilities it works with architects, specifiers and designers to deliver custom made solutions to meet their specific timber requirements.

Hurford Wholesale is an Australian distributor and manufacturing network of high quality timber products - established one of Australia’s largest and most diverse timber wholesale businesses with a distribution network that covers the whole of Australia.  Backed by a strong track record Hurford Wholesale is forging ahead, strengthening existing business relationships with its customers while exploring new opportunities to enhance its sustainability.

Silver Sponsor - Timber Panels Award

EWPAA - Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia - is an industry-driven organisation, voluntarily funded by plywood and LVL manufacturers in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

The range of certified products manufactured and merchandised by EWPAA members includes traditional interior, exterior and marine plywood products, a wide range of modern engineered wood products encompassing structural plywoods used for formwork, residential and commercial flooring, wind and earthquake bracing, and feature cladding and laminated veneer lumber and I-beam products used in both commercial and residential structures.

Bronze Sponsor - Timber Windows and Doors Award

The Window and Door Industry Council (WADIC) is a service organization for timber window and door manufacturers supplying products to the building and construction industry. WADIC helps members comply with relevant Australian Standards and codes, promotes the environmental and energy-performance benefits of members' products, and provides members with options for window energy-rating systems. WADIC is an organisation committed to supporting energy conservation and environmentally-sustainable products.

Bronze Sponsor - Residential Class I – New Building – Award

Timber NSW principally exists to represent the NSW hardwood timber industry at parliamentary, political and senior Government levels. It also provides advice and assistance to branches on resource and market development; and it supplies forest management information to the community.

Bronze Sponsor - Residential Class I – Alterations or Additions – Award

Boral Timber is part of Australia's largest building and construction supplier. The company manufacturers and markets a huge range of hardwood (flooring and structural), softwood and woodchip products.

Boral Timber has a wide range of Australian native hardwood timber species in a variety of timber flooring products. Boral Timber's range of solid strip flooring, parquetry, pre-finished hardwood engineered flooring and decking is suitable for new homes, renovations and commercial projects.

All Boral Timber's solid products are Australian Forestry Scheme (AFS) Chain of Custody certified. This gives assurance that Boral Timber solid products are sourced from sustainably managed and legal forestry. The AFS certification is linked to the largest forest management certification scheme in the world (PEFC) and is the only scheme with an Australian Standard (AS 4708-2007).

Boral Timber products are available throughout Australia through an extensive network of distributors and re-sellers.    

Bronze Sponsor - Recycled Timber Award

Kennedy's Timbers is a specialist producer of recycled architectural timber products. Its range includes rich-in-character floorboards, large dimension posts and beams, eco-friendly decking, and feature timbers for cladding, furniture and bench tops.

Recently acquired by long-time timber recycler Michael Kennedy, Australian Recycled Timber features a new team of experienced timber professionals, an enhanced production facility and an expanded product range.

Bronze Sponsor - Responsible Wood

Responsible Wood are committed to protecting and promoting Australia’s unique environments with standards that ensure a forest industry that is environmentally, socially, culturally and commercially sustainable.

We pioneered the development of certification standards for wood and wood products sourced from sustainably managed forests in Australia. Our standards provide guidance and accountability for forest managers, manufacturers and suppliers.

Bronze Sponsor - Engineered Timber Award

Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts is the nation’s leading wood products business, producing and distributing a comprehensive range of wood-based building products and some of the most trusted brands in the industry. We manufacture particleboard, flooring, LPM, LVL, Plywood as well as treated and untreated timber and decorative wood products.

Bronze Sponsor - Timber Veneers Award

The Timber Veneer Association of Australia promotes and expands the market of decorative wood veneered panel products manufactured in Australia and New Zealand. Timber veneer is virtually identical to solid timber – but more dimensionally stable. Perfect for cabinets, furniture and joinery. Timber veneer combines the premium look and feel of timber with a breathtaking spectrum of natural colours and grain structures. These come to rich life with clear finishing or staining, and beautifully complement other interior design materials.

Bronze Sponsor - Sliced Decorative Timber Veneers Award

Briggs Veneers commenced production in 1908 and is one of Australia's major suppliers of decorative veneer (in leaf and joined layon form), reconstituted veneers, premium rotary veneers, flameblock fire-retardant MDF, glue thread and paper tape for veneers. Briggs offers a full range of more than 150 quality timber veneers, including TrueGrain reconstituted timber veneers and eco-cert environmentally certified veneers. Briggs is a family owned company, the descendants of the company founder being actively involved in the business.

Bronze Sponsor - Sustainability Award

Planet Ark's Make It Wood - Do Your World Some Good campaign promotes increased use of responsibly sourced wood as a building material. When sourced responsibly, wood can play a big part in tackling climate change.

This is because wood is a low-carbon option for building: When used in long-lived applications, it stores carbon for the long-term, it is renewable and it has a lower embodied energy than many other building materials such as concrete, steel or plastic. As such, using wood allows us to live a low carbon lifestyle. Make It Wood is proudly brought to you by Planet Ark in partnership with Forest and Wood Products Australia.

Bronze Sponsor - Interior Fitout - Commercial Award

Porta pride themselves on being one of Australia’s leading supplier of timber products, mouldings and custom moulding services to the home improvement, building, trade and commercial sectors.

An Australian-owned and operated company, Porta has a rich history spanning over 65 years proudly manufacturing and distributing a broad range of timber products using various local and imported certified timber species.

Porta’s milling and importing operations provide quality timber, moulding and design solutions to the construction, commercial and industrial sectors, for home improvement, and also to specifiers and designers. Porta leverages our expertise in timber to source and provides aesthetic and decorative products for the architectural, designer and specifier industries. Porta’s timber product range offers innovation and unique designs for interior and external applications.

Bronze Sponsor - Stand-alone Structure & Landscape Award

Design Pine is a range of structural and decorative timber products coated with a genuine primer. Impregnated with a preservative to prevent the onset of decay and resist insect attack in all above ground applications, Design Pine is finger jointed and/or laminated for increased dimensional stability to give a reliable product for years to come.

All finger jointed primed pine products are made up of four key components, these being the timber, the preservative, the glue system, and the primer system. Each one of the defined components can vary in quality and performance, each should be evaluated on their own merit prior to selecting a product. Design Pine does not jeopardise its quality as only the finest quality components are used to create the ultimate outdoor timber solution.

Bronze Sponsor - Stand-alone Structure & Landscape Award

At XLam, we pride ourselves on the fact that we are the first ever business to establish CLT products down under. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of sustainable building solutions throughout New Zealand, Australia and beyond. Alongside this, we carry our new-found goal, to become a fully integrated solution provider. Focusing on our highly tenable and efficient methods, we strive to bestow original and expansive ways to design, manufacture and install XLam building solutions on every project.

Bronze Sponsor - Small Budget Award

Weathertex is Australian owned and manufactured with a better than zero carbon footprint, Weathertex‘s external timber cladding is the ideal solution for any builder, architect or designer in search for environmentally conscious and high quality material. All Weathertex products are made in Australia from, PEFC certified state forest or private hardwoods without any chemical additives. Weathertex Weatherboards are guaranteed not to rot, split or crack for 25 years.

The manufacturing facility was originally founded in 1939 in Raymond Terrace, NSW. Massive investments have been made in the factory over many years in order to support ongoing production, improve painting facilities and introduce modern computerisation systems. We are 100% Australian owned and operated, employing more than 100 local people for over 50 years.

Weathertex ticks all the boxes. Australian owned with a better than zero carbon foot print, environmentally sensitive and in touch with today’s industrial standards, for a cleaner environment.

Bronze Sponsor - Imported Timber Award