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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 […]

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.  […]

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Pianodrome Wood ID Workshop

21 February 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 […]

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 […]

Forestry career route map (survey)

19 January 2017 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

The Forest and Timber Technologies ILG Skills Group are currently undertaking a review of the Forestry Career Route Map website in order to update the […]

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About

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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