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Forestry, wood processing & “green Brexit”

24 October 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Confor has launched a writing competition designed to stimulate debate on the potential for forestry and wood processing to deliver the a more sustainable society.  […]

Timber at a sawmill

No deal Brexit & timber

25 September 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

This post is just to highlight some key areas of the Brexit preparedness notices issued by the UK Government and the European Commission (EC). You […]

Structural timber awards 2018

19 December 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Structural Timber Awards is a great showcase for innovation in building with wood – both in architectural design and engineering excellence.  For that reason […]

Free seminar / research update

24 October 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Fri, November 17, 2017 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM General audience 1:30 PM – 16:00 PM SIRT sponsors only Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) 3 […]

CALEDON game

7 May 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

You may have seen the article by Max Coleman in Scottish Forestry about CALEDON – a computer game about tree health – and seen that […]

The future of forestry in Scotland?

30 September 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Scottish government has launched a consultation seeking views on the devolution of forestry (making management of forestry directly accountable to Scottish Ministers). There are proposed new […]

Tree of the year nominations

27 September 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The shortlists are up for tree of the year for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  You can vote on the Woodland Trust website until […]

Tree health – PhD funding

5 May 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Scottish Forestry Trust, in partnership with Forestry Commission Scotland, have established a scheme for part funding PhD research in the area of tree health (relevant […]

Award winning home work

25 April 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Congratulations are due to our colleague Robert Hairstans, who heads up the Centre for Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures.  His family home has scooped him […]

Wood Technology Society – 60th birthday

2 December 2015 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Wood Technology Society is the continuation of the Institute for Wood Science – and it reached 60 years old this year. The Society is […]

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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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Upcoming Events

  1. UK softwood conference

    March 6
  2. InnoRenew conference – healthy future

    March 7
  3. Lawrence Pilling evening lecture

    March 13 @ 6.30pm - 11.00pm
  4. Compwood 2019

    June 17 - June 19
  5. RFS Conference 2019 – Evolving the forest

    June 19 - June 21

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  • Prof Claudio Mahler from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro visiting 14 February 2019
  • Professor Sean Smith is Keynote Speaker at forthcoming “Plastics in Construction” conference 12 February 2019

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