The innovative timber house (event)
Tuesday 3rd May from 09:30 to 17:00, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh The Innovative Timber House: The New Architecture of Wood By: Wood for Good […]
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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 […]
What’s new about grade stamps?
The UK has a long history of marking graded timber with a stamp – so that there is no risk of graded timber being misidentified […]
Voting on the revised EN14081-1
The European Standard EN14081-1 “Timber structures – Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross section – Part 1 General requirements” is entering the final stages of revision, […]
EN338 – what’s happening with grades?
EN338 is a European Standard that specifies strength classes of structural timber (grades with numbers attached for use in design). It is not the only […]
What is TR26?
TR26 is a structural timber grade in common, long standing, use in the UK for trussed rafters. It doesn’t appear in EN338 because it is […]
CLT production in the UK
A Scottish construction firm is investing £4.2m in a ‘massive’ timber production plant following university research by The Institute for Sustainable Construction. Lanarkshire-based firm CCG […]
Scholarships for MSc in Timber Engineering
There are industry-funded places available for Napier University’s MSc course in timber engineering. Timber is, in many respects, the ideal construction material, particularly in terms […]
Call open for WCTE 2016
The next World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2016) will be held in Vienna, Austria from 22 to 25 August 2016. Important dates and instructions […]