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Guess the strength of timber ICF CPD scores

3 February 2023 marlene cramer 0

Yesterday, a group of visitors from the Institute of Chartered Foresters toured our lab, learned a lot about wood science and how wood properties are […]

Guess the strength of timber “Insights day” scores

12 December 2022 marlene cramer 0

We have recently brought our “guess the strength” game to the Insights Day at the Borders College in Galashiels. Check out your score below! Here […]

Guess the Strength of Timber II – Scores

20 October 2022 marlene cramer 0

Here are the scores from the second round of the Guess the Strength of Timber game. It worked the same as last time, but with […]

More on timber quality

13 September 2022 marlene cramer 1

Recently we made a game for people to guess the relative strengths of some timber beams – by inspecting the beams up close and hands […]

Guess the Strength of Timber – Scores

29 July 2022 marlene cramer 1

Check out how well you did in our “guess the strength of timber” game. Search for your player code name below. Please also fill a […]

What is “timber quality”? A challenge for creative programmers

25 May 2022 marlene cramer 0

Brief:  We seek to commission a creative person or business to develop a prototype for a digital game that will encourage people (general public and […]

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 […]

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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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RSS Scottish Forest & Timber Technologies events

  • HIFIC – Highland Regional Meeting: 16th November 2023
  • Central Scotland Regional Meeting: 15th November 2023
  • South Regional Meeting: 8th November 2023

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  • Congratulations to Edinburgh Napier’s own Bill Buchanan! 15 September 2023
  • Transnational access funding successful! 14 September 2023

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