What we do
Cleaning out my temporary folders I found a recorded presentation I made about what our centre does. I forget what I made it for exactly […]
Videos
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 […]
Guess the Strength of Timber II – Scores
Here are the scores from the second round of the Guess the Strength of Timber game. It worked the same as last time, but with […]
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, […]
Insights in Timber Recycling and Demolition
Dan Ridley-Ellis and I visited and interviewed a number of companies in the last few months. We wanted to find out what happens to timber […]
Quick talks on big topics
Edinburgh Napier’s university-wide Research Conference was held on Wednesday 15 June at our Craiglockhart Campus. The conference showcased the University’s leading research practice, and helped researchers […]
Tree health research
We need trees – but trees also need us. Pests, diseases and climate change pose very significant threats to forests…both to native and to introduced […]
Jim and Spencer explain #3
Jim Coulson, a board member of the Wood Technology Society (IOM3), is making short videos about wood with his grandson Spencer. In the first installment, we […]
Build with carbon
Wood for Good have information on their website about carbon sequestration in timber. In a nutshell, trees make wood from CO2 and water. Wood consists […]