EN 1912:2024
It has been a large amount of work to get the data in good order, but we finally have the updated version of EN 1912 […]
visual grading
What does “dry-graded” mean?
The concept of dry graded timber is a bit confusing. It is not the opposite of wet grading. Here is an attempt to clarify things: […]
Slides from timber strength grading webinar
Here are the slides from my bit of the BM TRADA webinar on strength grading of timber, Thursday 18 April 2024. This covers machine grading […]
Visual grading standards and EN14081-1
Visual strength grading of timber can be done to a wide range of grading rules – many of which are national standards. However, in Europe, […]
More on EN1912 (species and origin)
We wrote about the update to EN1912 in November 2019 and November 2022. Standards do take a while to go through the whole revision and […]
Guess the strength of timber ICF CPD scores
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 […]
An update to EN1912 update
It has been a while since we posted about the revision of EN1912, but is time for another update. The draft is now out for […]
Guess the Strength of Timber II – Scores
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 […]
Guess the Strength of Timber – Scores
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 […]
Strength grading of UK and Irish grown timber (big info drop)
Machine strength grading of structural timber in Europe is done mostly under a system called “machine control”. The machine settings are fixed based on large […]