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Callum Hill explaining wood

Wood science videos (update)

7 April 2025 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Aalto University in Finland, continues to produce many useful educational wood science videos. In addition to those Callum Hill you can now watch videos with […]

Slides from timber strength grading webinar

22 April 2024 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Here are the slides from my bit of the BM TRADA webinar on strength grading of timber, Thursday 18 April 2024. This covers machine grading […]

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 […]

More on timber quality

13 September 2022 marlene cramer 1

Recently we made a game for people to guess the relative strengths of some timber beams – by inspecting the beams up close and hands […]

Callum Hill explaining wood

Wood science videos

15 March 2021 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Aalto University in Finland, has produced a series of short wood science videos featuring Callum Hill. The cover an introduction to wood as a material, […]

3D model of sawn wood

Intro to wood structure and grading

4 February 2021 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

We have not resolved the issue with embedding Sketchfab models into our WordPress deployment so what you see here will likely appear broken in one […]

Forest products on the Handmade podcast

16 October 2020 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Handmade podcast (previously known as ‘rial talk) has covered wood and wood-based materials a few times from different perspectives. March 23rd 2018 “Wood” with […]

beX wins award for employer engagement

2 July 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

We were thrilled to hear that the Built Environment Exchange won the “Outstanding employer engagement in universities” prize at the Herald Higher Education Awards. The […]

New MSc in Timber Architectural Design and Technology

20 June 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Edinburgh Napier University has introduced an MSc on Timber Architectural Design and Technology – the first programme of its kind in the UK. (info: Full […]

Carnegie Trust’s Caledonian PhD Scholarship Scheme 2018/19

28 November 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Carnegie Trust is again running the Caledonian PhD Scholarship Scheme.  Each University has a maximum number of applications they are allowed to put forward to […]

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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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