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Month: April 2018

Tiling batten sizes (UK)

27 April 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

This is a short post looking at how tiling batten dimensions (according to the standards, at least) have changed over the years. It is sometimes […]

The strength of tiling battens (UK)

26 April 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

BS 5534:2014+A2:2018, the UK code of practice for slating and tiling for pitched roofs and vertical cladding, contains rules for visual grading of tiling battens.  […]

Wood in pianos

14 April 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

A while ago we were contacted by the Pianodrome project, asking for some help identifying wood species.  They plan to build a 100-seat amphitheatre entirely from […]

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Edinburgh Napier University now has a number of research groups that grew out of the former Centre for Timber Engineering. For a time the “Centre for Wood Science & Technology (CWST)”, and “Centre for Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures (COCIS)” were part of “the Institute for Sustainable Construction” in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. This research continues, but now within the “School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment“.

We are also connected to the Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science, which is (mostly) under the School of Applied Sciences.

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