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 […]
Visual grading standards and EN14081-1
Visual strength grading of timber can be done to a wide range of grading rules – many of which are national standards. However, in Europe, […]
More on EN1912 (species and origin)
We wrote about the update to EN1912 in November 2019 and November 2022. Standards do take a while to go through the whole revision and […]
Hardwoods with potential: A little bit about our “target species”
The timber industry in the UK (and this blog) has been focusing mainly on softwoods. Slowly, foresters, wood processors and researchers (including us!) are becoming […]
The quickest of overviews of Engineered Wood Products
The text for this post is written by Wojciech Plowas (I only rearranged it). The beautiful overview image above was created by Ben Shirley from […]
Home-grown hardwoods – Where are we and how did we get here?
When you look at the current UK hardwood situation, you will often encounter some facts that show how little we are using this resource: These […]
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 […]
Guess the strength of timber “Insights day” scores
We have recently brought our “guess the strength” game to the Insights Day at the Borders College in Galashiels. Check out your score below! Here […]