Comparing Lavers’ data for UK grown
There is a very large amount of data in Gwendoline M. Lavers, “The strength properties of timber” (Building Research Establishment, BR241, 3rd ed. / revised […]
Articles by Dan Ridley-Ellis
Bright Club
On 27th October 2023, Dan Ridley-Ellis performed a stand-up comedy set for Bright Club St Andrews as part of Explorathon 2023 – talking about wood […]
Peculia odorata and dry rot
The Forest Products Research Laboratory was established in 1925, opening the Princes Risborough laboratory in 1927. One of the first members of staff was Bernard […]
Forests horizon scan – overlooked and emerging issues
We were pleased to be part of the team of experts that recently published a list of 15 overlooked and emerging issues that are likely […]
Visual grading standards and EN14081-1
Visual strength grading of timber can be done to a wide range of grading rules – many of which are national standards. However, in Europe, […]
More on EN1912 (species and origin)
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 […]
An update to EN1912 update
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 […]
Strength grading of UK and Irish grown timber (big info drop)
Machine strength grading of structural timber in Europe is done mostly under a system called “machine control”. The machine settings are fixed based on large […]