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Norway spruce

Grade in Britain revisited

23 January 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

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 […]

Event – minor conifers in Ireland

1 May 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

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 […]

Research note – minor conifer species

11 January 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

Forestry Commission has published a research note with a summary of the basic wood properties information that David Gil-Moreno obtained in his PhD project.  You […]

Grade in Britain

12 April 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 6

Introduction We looked at British spruce in a previous post.  It is, for the main part, Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) which is the UK’s main […]

What is “British spruce”?

1 April 2016 Dan Ridley-Ellis 3

It is quite common for species with similar timber properties to be lumped into a commercial “species combination” for trade  (the species are not differentiated – […]

Report on extractive content of Scottish roundwood

19 November 2015 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

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 […]

David Gil-Moreno presents his research in Brazil

5 November 2015 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

PhD student, David Gil-Moreno presented some of his research at the 19th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, in Rio de Janeiro. The paper […]

Work begins on alternative conifer species

19 November 2013 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

David Gil-Moreno has begun his PhD research into the commercial potential of western hemlock, noble fir, western red cedar and Norway spruce for the UK […]

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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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