2008 WPA Technical Conference Presentations

Please click on the links below to download the presentations you require:

• WPA Chief Executive's update on various issues affecting members
• Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority - business initiatives including "Wood Energy Programme and Grant Scheme'
• Timber Treatment review update from the Department of Building and Housing
• The role of Douglas Fir in future industry direction
• Methyl bromide udate
• ANSNZ1748 research
• NZ Wood update and progress
• Review of methods of treated wood-waste disposal
• The future of the use of wood residues
• Electricity supply and price issues
• Current position on climate change issues
• WPA Standards' Review update

WPA wishes to thank each of the presenters who made a valuable contribution to the conference:

• Hon Shane Jones, Minister of Building and Construction
• Mark Windsor, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (ECCA)
• John Harper, Department of Building and Housing
• Mark Greenwood, Genera
• Bryan Walford, Scion
• Andy Karalus and Scott Gibbons, Douglas Fir Association
• Geoff Henley, NZ Wood programme
• Norm Stannard, HERA
• James Flexman, Carter Holt Harvey Limited
• Ralph Matthes, Major Energy Users Group (MEUG)
• Catherine Beard, Greenhouse Policy Coalition
• Warwick Banks, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts NZ

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