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Timber grading explained with plums

12 October 2021 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

What do plums and wood have in common? Probably more than you thought. In this video Marlene Cramer explains the basic idea of timber grading […]

Woody Cartoons

21 September 2021 marlene cramer 0

The Quote of the week has been slacking a bit. While you are waiting for the next episode, why don’t you enjoy some wood cartoons? […]

Forest products on the Handmade podcast

16 October 2020 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Handmade podcast (previously known as ‘rial talk) has covered wood and wood-based materials a few times from different perspectives. March 23rd 2018 “Wood” with […]

Something different – tree art

3 April 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Following an exchange of ideas on Twitter involving the artist Richard G Evans – who specialises in wonderful tree portraiture linked to GPS locations encouraging […]

Who looks like a forester? (#IWD2019)

9 March 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

For international women’s day, foresters, arboriculturists and the other diverse professionals working with trees took to social media with the hashtag #ILookLikeAForester. Not only was […]

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Pianodrome Wood ID Workshop

14 April 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Edinburgh International Science Festival The average piano is made up of between 8 and 16 different species of wood. Each part is designed carefully to […]

Wood in pianos

14 April 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

A while ago we were contacted by the Pianodrome project, asking for some help identifying wood species.  They plan to build a 100-seat amphitheatre entirely from […]

Timber at a sawmill

Wood for materials

26 March 2018 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Wood is a very useful material. In the future we will be able to make even more things from wood …and the components of wood.  […]

Being one with the trees

8 December 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

On 20th December 2017 the BBC will broadcast a program about Judi Dench and her love for trees (edit 9/11/2019, not currently on iplayer, but […]

CALEDON game

7 May 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

You may have seen the article by Max Coleman in Scottish Forestry about CALEDON – a computer game about tree health – and seen that […]

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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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  • Central Scotland Regional Meeting: 23rd March 2022
  • South Regional Meeting: 16th March 2022
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