To make networking easier and more effective for visitors to Ecobuild 2012, the Enterprise Europe Network are hosting a free Matchmaking Event within the world's largest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment.

Kit manufacturer and supplier, Scotframe, has introduced a new generation of building products which takes thinking about construction into the ‘Green’ 21st century

Alongside its existing ranges of I Joists, Wall Studs, Laminated Veneer Lumber and flexible & rigid wood fibre insulation panels STEICO announce the UK launch of STEICOtop and STEICOzell together with the STEICO Ecological Roof concept; a truly sustainable room in the roof option for comfortable and healthy living in new build applications

Social media can help with communication and collaboration in the construction sector and benefit sustainability initiatives

A CE standard for wood products has been recognised in Japan for the first time. This will simplify exports of construction timber to Japan, for European sawmills.

The Central Scotland Green Network development fund has been extended by £750 000 for greenspace projects.

An eco home based on a design by a 10-year-old schoolgirl is to be built in Redditch as part of the largest Norwegian timber frame housing development in the UK.

A vacancy is currently on offer for recent graduates with a forestry qualification and / or experience.

Funding for Short KTPs (*) is again available following a review last year. As the name suggest they are shorter and smaller versions of the well established Knowledge Transfer Partnerships programme; which has successfully funded joint industry-academic development work in the UK for nearly 30 years.

Scottish Enterprise have commissioned research into the forest and timber technologies sector that will be used to develop a programme of support for the sector, which Scottish Enterprise will deliver over the next few years. To ensure that this support meets the requirements of the sector as closely as possible, it is important to gather views from companies within the sector.

One of the great hopes for innovation in Canada's battered forestry sector was officially inaugurated Thursday just outside of this Eastern Townships town.