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PR & Marketing

Promotional Literature: provides a suite of professionally designed literature that can be customised

by adding the Member’s logo and contact details. These are targeted at key specifiers as follows:

Architects and designers
Builders
Housing Associations and Local Authorities
Self-builders and Home Owners

Informational Literature: provides leaflets to meet specific needs:

Timber Frame Erection Checklist
10 Tips for Self Builders
10 Reasons to Choose Timber Frame

Ensures Widespread Recognition: of all the advantages of Timber Frame, by relentlessly reinforcing its benefits:

Speed of construction
Ensuring good Egan compliance
Excellent sound and thermal performance
Excellent environmental / sustainability credentials

UKTFA improves Internal Communications within the Industry: facilitating superior networking and building lasting relationships.

Continually Monitoring the Media: on your behalf and providing robust, honest repudiation of any adverse publicity.

Public Relations: nearly 7 million people had the opportunity to read about UKTFA in 21 trade and 50 consumer titles in 2007.

Financial Institutions: liaison with Building Societies, mortgage providers, insurance companies and other Financial Institutions to ensure that Timber Frame continues to receive parallel status with other building methods.

Scottish Self-Build Centre: the UKTFA has a permanent exhibition stand.

UKTFA is Recognised as the Source of Timber Frame Information: the single voice speaking for Timber Frame and definitive, authoritative source of both technical information and industrial news and views. This has included a programme of high quality high profile advertisements in a selected range of periodicals sponsored by the wood for good campaign.

Technical

Quality Assurance: a scheme with credibility and integrity that satisfies the needs and increases the confidence of our Members’ customers and the ultimate client. It includes individual categories for design, manufacture & erection and delivers independent certification operating under UKAS (UK

Accreditation Service). The scheme is mandatory for manufacturers, integrates with ISO 9000 & ISO 14001. It is available at two levels: Q-Mark and Q-Mark Plus – further details are available in a separate leaflet.

Free Technical Help-Line: this service is available to all Members by telephone fax and email.

Monitoring of Regulations and Standards: Dr. Luke Whale is retained as technical advocate to monitor International, European and British Standards and Building Regulations.

Lobbying re New Legislation, Regulations and Standards: influencing the European Executive, the Westminster Government, the Scottish Executive and National and Regional Assemblies to ensure that all relevant new legislation is practical to implement and is positive towards Timber Frame.

Technical Guidelines: providing robust technical guidance on key aspects of Timber Frame design,

manufacturing and erection through good quality technical publications in printed. Two documents are currently available:

Fuel and Power Conservation: Part L1A Guidelines
Resistance to the Passage of Sound: Part E Guidelines.

Promoting Research: with a total commitment to continuous improvement, UKTFA was a contributor to TF2000 multi-storey project and is the industry voice in many PII and similar research projects. UKTFA collaborates with Centres of Excellence such as BRE, TRADA, Napier University – Centre of Timber Engineering, CITB and The Zethus Centre.

Insulation Suppliers Forum: Coordinates a technical liaison group for Member companies to ensure the provision of good reliable specifications and guidance.

NHBC and Zurich: UKTFA has ongoing liaison at the Technical and the Engineered Wood Products Committees.

Engineered Wood Products

Voluntary Code of Practice: Guidance on several topics is currently in preparation – all EWP systems are represented.

Education & Training

Health & Safety: The UKTFA in conjunction with the Health & Safety Executive are producing a timber frame version of their “Absolutely Essential” Health and Safety Toolkit to be published in 2004.

Health & Safety: Preparing a Code of Practice for the Timber Frame industry in conjunction with the Health & Safety Executive.

Training cd: This gives a detailed briefing on the following:

Features and Benefits for sales staff
Features and Benefits for office based technical staff
Key Aspects for site based staff.

A Pocket Guide to Timber Frame Construction: a site-friendly booklet covering the do’s and don’ts of timber frame erection.

Erector Training: developing an industry based timber frame erector training and qualification scheme. This involves distance learning, cd and other modern interactive learning experiences as well as developing skills of new entrants into our growing industry. Initial Funding for development is in place from the Scottish Forest Industry Cluster and the European Social Fund.

Manufacturing Training: developing an industry based timber frame manufacture training and qualification scheme. This similarly involves distance learning, cd and modern interactive learning experiences as well as developing skills of new entrants. A European application for funding is being progressed.

Membership

The UKTFA comprises of over 270 Member companies including:

Timber Frame Manufacturers
Industry Suppliers
Designers
Builders and Contractors
Timber Frame Erectors
Trade Associations

Website: UKTFA owns and operates an easy access, portal-style website www.timber-frame.org with media, builders & developers, self-build, photo library, news and events, technical and education sections. It has a large Members’ Only Section that is specifically designed to keep Members updated in all areas without being interruptive – information there when you need it.

Manufacturer Search Facility: the website now includes a search engine to help clients locate a timber frame manufacturer dependent on location of project, type of development, type of building and service required.

Timber Frame Designers, Erectors, Financial Services and Industry Suppliers Search Facility: the website has recently been extended to include search facilities for all our Member categories.

Market statistics: UKTFA prepares the only comprehensive set of market statistics covering all aspects of Timber Frame. The report – confidential to Members – covers market trends, industry structure, productive capacity and state of the market including private builder, registered social landlord, commercial and self-build development.

Bi-monthly Briefing: UKTFA issues a Members briefing every two months.

Good value, we trust you will agree!