University of Pretoria and York Timbers envision:

• A strategic partnership to establish a multi-disciplinary programme focused on the promotion and adoption of structural wood products within the context of a sustainable, timber-based built environment and the wood-based bio-economy in South Africa,
• To continuously increase the competitiveness, value creation, cost efficiency, and sustainability of the South African and African structural wood industry.
• Growing South Africa’s local and international structural wood networks and becoming a knowledge and thought leader within these networks.