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CPD and degrees

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 […]

Forestry career route map (survey)

19 January 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

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 […]

British timber in construction

28 September 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Dan Ridley-Ellis will speak about grading of British-grown timber at this event hosted by BRE, which launches Grown in Britain week, 2016 10 October 2016 […]

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The Centres for Timber Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University are “Wood Science & Technology (CWST)”, and “Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures (COCIS)”.

They are part of the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University, UK.

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RSS Scottish Forest & Timber Technologies events

  • North Scotland Regional Meeting: 7th March 2023
  • Central Scotland Regional Meeting: 15th March 2023
  • South Regional Meeting: 22nd March 2023

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  • Coming soon – Exhibition Event “Driving Learning Forward” – 16th-18th May 2023 21 February 2023

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