What does “dry-graded” mean?
The concept of dry graded timber is a bit confusing. It is not the opposite of wet grading. Here is an attempt to clarify things: […]
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 […]
WSE2024 conference dates: (22),23,24 October 2024
The 20th Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering will be held at Edinburgh Napier’s Craiglockhart campus on the 23rd […]
RSE report on public funding of forestry
A Royal Society of Edinburgh inquiry into the public funding of forestry has published its report – highlighting, in particular, one of its recommendations that […]
Comparing Lavers’ data for UK grown
There is a very large amount of data in Gwendoline M. Lavers, “The strength properties of timber” (Building Research Establishment, BR241, 3rd ed. / revised […]
Progress in my PhD (An easier route to strength grading hardwoods)
NOTE: This post should have been published in October, but I was very busy and didn’t finish the writeup until now… I have started my […]
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 […]
Peculia odorata and dry rot
The Forest Products Research Laboratory was established in 1925, opening the Princes Risborough laboratory in 1927. One of the first members of staff was Bernard […]
Forests horizon scan – overlooked and emerging issues
We were pleased to be part of the team of experts that recently published a list of 15 overlooked and emerging issues that are likely […]
