10-STOREY TIMBER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31169, 20 September 1966, Page 15

10-STOREY TIMBER

(N.Z., Press Assn.—Copyright) SURFERS’ PARADISE (Queensland), Sept. 19. One of the world’s leading timber experts predicted today that Australia and New Zealand could one day have timber buildings np to 10 storeys high. He is Mr J. Scott McBride, director of the United Kingdom Timber Research and Development Association, who is attending the sixth allAustralian timber congress at Surfers’ Paradise.

The congress, which is being attended by 450 delegates from New Zealand, Britain, Canada, the United States, Malaysia, the Philippines and Formosa, opened today.

Mr Mcßride said his association had completed a four-storey timberframed dwelling since British building regulations were relaxed, “as far as I know this is the first time modern timber framing bad been used for a building of this type,” he said.

Mr Mcßride added: “Our next project will be a 10-storey timber-framed non-residential building, 90 feet high. “We have already made a feasibility study which shows this can be done.” Mr Mcßride predieted that now that British timber interests had shown that multi-storey timber buildings were possible other governments might follow the British lead and relax restrictions on such buildings.