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More on EN1912 (species and origin)

3 March 2023 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

We wrote about the update to EN1912 in November 2019 and November 2022. Standards do take a while to go through the whole revision and […]

Hardwoods with potential: A little bit about our “target species”

27 February 2023 marlene cramer 0

The timber industry in the UK (and this blog) has been focusing mainly on softwoods. Slowly, foresters, wood processors and researchers (including us!) are becoming […]

The quickest of overviews of Engineered Wood Products

20 February 2023 marlene cramer 0

The text for this post is written by Wojciech Plowas (I only rearranged it). The beautiful overview image above was created by Ben Shirley from […]

Home-grown hardwoods – Where are we and how did we get here?

20 February 2023 marlene cramer 0

When you look at the current UK hardwood situation, you will often encounter some facts that show how little we are using this resource: These […]

Guess the strength of timber ICF CPD scores

3 February 2023 marlene cramer 0

Yesterday, a group of visitors from the Institute of Chartered Foresters toured our lab, learned a lot about wood science and how wood properties are […]

Guess the strength of timber “Insights day” scores

12 December 2022 marlene cramer 0

We have recently brought our “guess the strength” game to the Insights Day at the Borders College in Galashiels. Check out your score below! Here […]

Guess the strength of timber III scores

9 November 2022 marlene cramer 0

We have recently brought our “guess the strength” game to BE-ST Fest and two teaching events at NMITE and ENU. Check out your score below! […]

An update to EN1912 update

8 November 2022 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

It has been a while since we posted about the revision of EN1912, but is time for another update. The draft is now out for […]

New Project – Building from England’s Woodlands

7 November 2022 marlene cramer 0

Did you know that in 2021/22 we have been planting more broadleaf trees than conifers in the UK (mainly in England)? Yet the timber that […]

Guess the Strength of Timber II – Scores

20 October 2022 marlene cramer 0

Here are the scores from the second round of the Guess the Strength of Timber game. It worked the same as last time, but with […]

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The Centres for Timber Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University are “Wood Science & Technology (CWST)”, and “Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures (COCIS)”.

They are part of the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.

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RSS Scottish Forest & Timber Technologies events

  • North Scotland Regional Meeting: 7th March 2023
  • Central Scotland Regional Meeting: 15th March 2023
  • South Regional Meeting: 22nd March 2023

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  • HPC training session (HPC Carpentry) – 11th & 12th April – Merchiston 27 February 2023
  • Coming soon – Exhibition Event “Driving Learning Forward” – 16th-18th May 2023 21 February 2023

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