AFPA Kicking Goals

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) in collaboration with other industry stakeholders and organisations including FTMA has kicked numerous goals for forest industries over past few weeks delivering on many months of hard work. A major breakthrough came...

What You Need to Know About Contractor Safety

From industrial relations experts, TTIA It is not unusual for members of TTIA to engage contractors for specific or short term jobs. In fact, some figures estimate that more than 1 million Australians work as contractors. Contractors are hired because of their...

Timber Offsite Construction now in June 2022

Timber Offsite Construction conference and exhibition, planned for November 2021, will now be held in June 2022. With the uncertainty of lockdowns and travel restrictions expected to continue beyond the end of the year, event organiser Frame Australia took the...

FTMA Tech Talk – Ed.37

Common Site Issues Construction schedules can often be challenging and any impacts to the flow of installation can be costly and lead to frustration. However, a number of the issues we see are repetitive and can be easily avoided on site with a little attention to...

FTMA Housing Update #10

Surfing the Housing Pipeline (or measuring the demand-supply gap) Prepared by IndustryEdge, September 2021 Having recently outlined the bursting pipeline of housing work in the supply chain, we have been asked more than once – when will it end? That’s a fair question,...