United Kingdom Accreditation Service, certifying your timber frame project is manufactured and erected to reliable and quality ISO 9001:2000 procedures SGS - Society General de Surveillance ensures that quality systems and procedures are used in the design, manufacture and erection of your engineered timberframe structure is of the highest standard FSC - Forest Stewardship Council - FSC Timber Frame certification. Benfield ATT hold Chain of Custody certification for the Design, Sales, Manufacture & Distribution of Engineered Timber Structures – FSC endorsed by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF and EcoHomes Investors in People, Benfield ATT are one of a few timber frame companies to hold an award for the training and ongoing development of their people and service   Examples of timber frame homes

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Press Releases: 2006 Archive

Kelvin Godhard, Professor Benfield and Neil Strachan with the csr ethics award for UK timber building firm

Ethics Award Makes Construction History - 09/08/2006

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) history has been made as a mainstream UK building company won its third consecutive Award for its positive impact on society from the Business in the Community. This is the first time a UK construction firm has won such successive Awards, demonstrating that ethics in Construction are not dead.

lisa dymock abseil for charity (business in the community)

Timber firm has nerves of…steel? - 22/05/2006

EMPLOYEES AT ONE of the top Welsh Timber Frame building firms watched in horror last week as their colleague ‘free-fall’ abseiled off the top of Newport’s largest bridge for charity.

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Official: Best Place to Work in Timber Frame - 11/05/2006

THE TEAM AT Benfield ATT are celebrating this week, after being announced as the only timber frame finalist in the ‘Best Places to Work in Construction’ Awards 2006.

Timber Framed House Feature for W6 - 19/04/2006

Benfield ATT is to supply a two-storey timber framed building as a major feature at the W6 Working with Wood exhibition (NEC 8-11 October 2006).

National Sustainable Regeneration Conference -  timber frame manufacturers Professor Benfield on urban regeneration, housing renewal schemes, Sustainable Development and to adapt for climate change by Sustainable Eastside

Get Politics out of Planning...to get Ethical - 08/03/2006

CENTRAL & LOCAL GOVERNMENT should surrender control of planning permits and policy to an independent body of ‘Resource Stewards’, urged Professor Michael Benfield, keynote speaker to the National Sustainable Regeneration Conference 2006 held in Birmingham.

Building Regulation changes look at future generation. Looking at future trends in the building industry through the future of housing construction report on Energy efficiency and very energy-efficient buildings

"Clients to blame for lack of sustainability in construction" cries industry - 10/02/2006

SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS HIGHLY in the future of housing construction, but clients are not embracing this vital issue sufficiently, new research claims.

Red Tape, sub-contractors and the revised CIS tax scheme - avoid tests to determine employment status (on the lump) from Inland Revenue for self-employed workers.

Sub-Contractors: Tired of the Lump - 25/01/2006

WITH THE C.I.T.B. PREDICTING a shift back to direct employment by many self employed sub-contractors, Benfield ATT 'one of the UK's foremost Timber Frame Engineering organisations' today announced its 'Specialist Skill Security'? (SSS) scheme for experienced Construction trades people.

Chartered Building Consultancy - timber frame, OSM (off-site manufacture) and engineered timber structure advisors. Timber Research and Development Association – our work with TRADA ensures high quality, eco-friendly engineered Timber Frame build projects. The Green Register of Construction Professionals - Benfield ATT's membership demonstrates our passion for environmentally sustainable timber frame self-builds, new homes, schools and social housing for local housing authorities AECB - Association of Environment Conscious Building – our FSC certified timber frame is endorsed by The Ecology Building Society Impact Upon Society Big Tick Award from Business in the Community – BITC – award-winning timber frame company within the Timber-frame industry TRA - Trussed Rafter Association – our membership assures Timberframe Trusses, Trussed Rafters, roofs and complex and innovative roofscapes are quality HBF - the only developer partnering timber frame company to be members of the House Builders Federation. Wales Quality Centre – members and committee members, we ensure the highest quality, especially when coupled with ISO 9001, FSC certification and Q-Mark Plus standards RICS - Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, assures our customers of our professionalism in wood and timber frame building and developing and surveying
Benfield ATT FSC-Certified Engineered Timber Structures do not cost the Earth.
Chain of Custody TT-COC-1928. FSC Trademark (C) 1996 Forestry Stewardship Council