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EN1912

EN 1912:2024

10 June 2024 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

It has been a large amount of work to get the data in good order, but we finally have the updated version of EN 1912 […]

Visual grading standards and EN14081-1

20 May 2023 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Visual strength grading of timber can be done to a wide range of grading rules – many of which are national standards. However, in Europe, […]

Visual grading

More on EN1912 (species and origin)

3 March 2023 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

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 […]

An update to EN1912 update

8 November 2022 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

It has been a while since we posted about the revision of EN1912, but is time for another update. The draft is now out for […]

An update to EN1912

25 November 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

Contact Dan Ridley-Ellis if you have any comments or can help with what is described below. Visual strength grading of timber is carried out according […]

The strength of tiling battens (UK)

26 April 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

BS 5534:2014+A2:2018, the UK code of practice for slating and tiling for pitched roofs and vertical cladding, contains rules for visual grading of tiling battens.  […]

Machine or visual grading? – read this!

19 December 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The European Standard for machine grading (EN 14081-2) will go to second enquiry (public comment) next year.  It will contain a proposal for what happens […]

About

Edinburgh Napier University now has a number of research groups that grew out of the former Centre for Timber Engineering. For a time the “Centre for Wood Science & Technology (CWST)”, and “Centre for Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures (COCIS)” were part of “the Institute for Sustainable Construction” in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. This research continues, but now within the “School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment“.

We are also connected to the Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science, which is (mostly) under the School of Applied Sciences.

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