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EN408

Timber at a sawmill

Standard symbols for timber

13 November 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

At the last meeting of CEN TC124 WG2 we were working on the revision of EN 14081-2 for machine grading of timber – which is […]

For wood measure

14 July 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

How big is a piece of timber? If you are using a grading standard – such as the new European visual grading standard for tropical […]

What’s wrong with BS 373:1957?

4 January 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Sadly, British Standard 373:1957 “Methods of testing small clear specimens of timber” probably won’t get to see it’s 60th birthday due to a rather critical […]

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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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