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 […]
Articles by Dan Ridley-Ellis
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 […]
Lessons from Wordle?
The online game Wordle has got very popular lately, and resulted in several conversations about strategy – particularly the starting word. Some people pick a […]