Strength grading of UK and Irish grown timber (big info drop)
Machine strength grading of structural timber in Europe is done mostly under a system called “machine control”. The machine settings are fixed based on large […]
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What’s known about home grown?
Perhaps you arrived here from the article on pages 38-40 the December issue of Confor’s Forestry and Timber News (currently for members only). If so, […]
Grade in Britain revisited
This blog post follows on from our first Grade in Britain blog post, back in April 2016. Much of that is still relevant, but we […]
SIRT seminar
Timber Research Update Seminar Wednesday 6th June 2018 9.30am – 4pm Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) 3 Watt Place, Hamilton International Technology Park Blantyre, G72 […]
Siberian larch is…?
Common names of tree species are rather confusing – as some species go by different names and some common names are applied to different species. […]
Event – minor conifers in Ireland
The National Forestry Conference for Ireland will be on the theme of minor conifers (“an appraisal of the silvicultural and marketing potential of coniferous alternatives […]
Thinking beyond strength classes
This paper summarises the processes and normative requirements involved in grading of structural timber, and outlines a number of areas in which matters may be […]
Grade in Britain
For a more up-to-date post on properties see Grade in Britain revisited. Introduction We looked at British spruce in a previous post. It is, for […]
Strength grading of timber explained
The paper “Strength grading of sawn timber in Europe: an explanation for engineers and researchers” by Dan Ridley-Ellis, Peter Stapel and Vanesa Baño is now published (online […]
Report on extractive content of Scottish roundwood
Steven Adams conducted a review of what has been published so far on extractive content of the main commercial softwood species in Scotland (namely Sitka […]