Slides from timber strength grading webinar
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 […]
CPD and degrees
Guess the strength of timber ICF CPD scores
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
Recently we made a game for people to guess the relative strengths of some timber beams – by inspecting the beams up close and hands […]
Wood science videos
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, […]
Intro to wood structure and grading
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Forestry career route map (survey)
The Forest and Timber Technologies ILG Skills Group are currently undertaking a review of the Forestry Career Route Map website in order to update the […]