In association with the City of Moonee Valley, major sponsor Timber Windows will be supporting and contributing to an educational day at Afton Street Wetland on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in Moonee Valley. The event is on between 10am and 1pm and plays host to four local schools who will be taking part in [...]
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Timber windows and doors for Mt Macedon home
Timber windows and doors for Mt Macedon home installed. Recently we photographed a home being built in the small township of Mount Macedon, just west out of Melbourne. The property lies at the base of a mountain peak, famous in the area and known too as Mount Macedon. The area has a number of historical grand [...]
Timber as the preferred material choice
Timber windows and doors have been used effectively in Australian building since the first colonial building and now sustainable design is changing perceptions of acceptable window and door performance. Timber units are now being recognised as the superior solution. Driven by concerns over climate change and prompted by increasing government regulation, building design professionals are seeking [...]
Windows and doors in Balwyn
Timba Windows worked closely with KHAK architects to provide all windows and doors for this luxury, contemporary masterpiece in Balwyn. The architects specified a combination of double casement windows and a lavish timber finish double door for the front and grand proportioned fixed windows with multiple double exterior doors at the rear of the property. Most of the [...]
Carbon pollution and Wood as a building material
Going to air under the new Planet Ark Environmental Edge brand, a new television commercial highlights the fact that wood stores carbon and that this is an environmental positive. Australia’s native forests, timber plantations and wood products are net absorbers of greenhouse gases, sequestering 56.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2005, reducing Australia’s total [...]
Wood – a low carbon footprint solution
New thinking on wood. Purchasing and manufacturing products that incorporate wooden components can greatly reduce the overall embedded carbon footprint of those goods and the buildings into which they are employed.
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