Events (4)

beX Learning Week 2019
Feb 18, 2019

Location Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkland, Boat of Garten and Alness

Description The following activities will take place over the course of the learning week:
- Visiting CCG(OSM) one of the most advanced offsite construction fabricators in the UK. For those that don’t know CCG they were a delivery partners in the Commonwealth Games Athletes Village and recently constructed the tallest timber building in Scotland from Cross Laminated Timber. CCG invested £12M setting up this state of the art facility and they will provide us with an in-depth insight in to their operations including an access all areas factory and site tour. You’ll get the chance to meet and hear from Calum Murray a director of CCG, the Structural Timber Association and Offsite Solutions Scotland.

- Mass Timber Evening Seminar introduction the topic of mass timber construction including a series of case study talks from the Centre for Offsite Construction + Innovative Structures. Case studies will include the American Hardwood Export Council "Multi-Ply" Project, Carbon Dynamic Dyson Project and CCG Yoker Project.

- The Falkland Palace (a former Scottish royal palace) and Estate tour with follow on collaborative workshop with the GSD students. Ninian Stewart who is the Hereditary Keeper of Falkland Palace and co-founder of the Falkland Centre for Stewardship and Guy Wat from the Scottish Forest and Timber Technologies Industry Leadership Group will host us for the day. This visit provides a unique opportunity to understand the modern day challenges of running a sustainable estate as well as an in-depth insight into their current project portfolio of investment including the creation of a sustainable community of off-grid ‘tiny houses’ utilising a design for manufacture and assembly and disassembly approach (DfMA+D).

- BSW Saw Mill and Carbon Dynamic tours. BSW were founded in 1848 and are the largest saw miller operator in the UK with additional facilities in Eastern Europe. Dave Mills their head of production at Boat of Garten will host and provide an in-depth insight in to how logs are felled, selected, processed and graded for structural applications. Carbon Dynamic is a modular construction start-up, this visit will demonstrate how volumetric construction components are formed and as well as showcase how cutting edge technologies such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are being utilised in the construction sector.

- Mutual Placemaking Workshop. This final day collaboration will see Edinburgh Napier University beX and Harvard GSD students collaborate via a design thinking workshop. The knowledge and understanding derived from the week will be combined with an interdisciplinary approach to determine sustainable solutions for an actual vacant site in the centre of Edinburgh. This material will be captured such that it can be showcased at the Holz Forum UK exhibition on the 9th and 10th of May. This workshop is strategic and linked to the Scottish Government backed Task Force for Vacant and Derelict land being led by the Scottish Land Commission and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.

People Robert Hairstans
Wojciech Plowas
Andrew Livingstone

Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

URL www.napier.ac.uk/beX

Location	Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkland, Boat of Garten and Alness
Description	The following activities will take place over the course of the learning week: - Visiting CCG(OSM) one of the most advanced offsite construction fabricators in the UK. For those that don’t know CCG they were a delivery partners in the Commonwealth Games Athletes Village and recently constructed the tallest timber building in Scotland from Cross Laminated Timber. CCG invested £12M setting up this state of the art facility and they will provide us with an in-depth insight in to their operations including an access all areas factory and site tour. You’ll get the chance to meet and hear from Calum Murray a director of CCG, the Structural Timber Association and Offsite Solutions Scotland. - Mass Timber Evening Seminar introduction the topic of mass timber construction including a series of case study talks from the Centre for Offsite Construction + Innovative Structures. Case studies will include the American Hardwood Export Council "Multi-Ply" Project, Carbon Dynamic Dyson Project and CCG Yoker Project. - The Falkland Palace (a former Scottish royal palace) and Estate tour with follow on collaborative workshop with the GSD students. Ninian Stewart who is the Hereditary Keeper of Falkland Palace and co-founder of the Falkland Centre for Stewardship and Guy Wat from the Scottish Forest and Timber Technologies Industry Leadership Group will host us for the day. This visit provides a unique opportunity to understand the modern day challenges of running a sustainable estate as well as an in-depth insight into their current project portfolio of investment including the creation of a sustainable community of off-grid ‘tiny houses’ utilising a design for manufacture and assembly and disassembly approach (DfMA+D). - BSW Saw Mill and Carbon Dynamic tours. BSW were founded in 1848 and are the largest saw miller operator in the UK with additional facilities in Eastern Europe. Dave Mills their head of production at Boat of Garten will host and provide an in-depth insight in to how logs are felled, selected, processed and graded for structural applications. Carbon Dynamic is a modular construction start-up, this visit will demonstrate how volumetric construction components are formed and as well as showcase how cutting edge technologies such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are being utilised in the construction sector. - Mutual Placemaking Workshop. This final day collaboration will see Edinburgh Napier University beX and Harvard GSD students collaborate via a design thinking workshop. The knowledge and understanding derived from the week will be combined with an interdisciplinary approach to determine sustainable solutions for an actual vacant site in the centre of Edinburgh. This material will be captured such that it can be showcased at the Holz Forum UK exhibition on the 9th and 10th of May. This workshop is strategic and linked to the Scottish Government backed Task Force for Vacant and Derelict land being led by the Scottish Land Commission and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
People	Robert Hairstans Wojciech Plowas Andrew Livingstone
Org Units	School of Engineering and The Built Environment School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	www.napier.ac.uk/beX

Timber research update seminar 2018
Jun 6, 2018

Location Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC)
3 Watt Place, Hamilton International Technology Park
Blantyre, G72 0AG

Description A seminar to update you on the latest research on timber. The session is open to all and will include summaries on a recently completed PhD project at Edinburgh Napier University looking at properties of minor conifer species. This will be combined with ongoing research from Forest Research and Surrey University (modelling moisture movement in wood), and the very latest research from Edinburgh Napier University. We’ll still have time to fit in the latest news on ongoing research with NUI Galway (including new machine grading settings for Douglas-fir).

The afternoon session will give further updates of the work being carried out at Edinburgh Napier University, the latest research from the timber properties group at Forest Research, and go into the latest developments in standardisation, and set the agenda for research going forward. If you want to know what’s coming before it comes, this is your opportunity.

Free, but places are limited so please book tickets first at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sirt-research-seminar-tickets-45888618092

People Dan Ridley-Ellis
Steven Adams
Stefan Lehneke

Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

URL http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/cwst/event/sirt-seminar-2018/

Location	Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) 3 Watt Place, Hamilton International Technology Park Blantyre, G72 0AG
Description	A seminar to update you on the latest research on timber. The session is open to all and will include summaries on a recently completed PhD project at Edinburgh Napier University looking at properties of minor conifer species. This will be combined with ongoing research from Forest Research and Surrey University (modelling moisture movement in wood), and the very latest research from Edinburgh Napier University. We’ll still have time to fit in the latest news on ongoing research with NUI Galway (including new machine grading settings for Douglas-fir). The afternoon session will give further updates of the work being carried out at Edinburgh Napier University, the latest research from the timber properties group at Forest Research, and go into the latest developments in standardisation, and set the agenda for research going forward. If you want to know what’s coming before it comes, this is your opportunity. Free, but places are limited so please book tickets first at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sirt-research-seminar-tickets-45888618092
People	Dan Ridley-Ellis Steven Adams Stefan Lehneke
Org Units	School of Engineering and The Built Environment School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/cwst/event/sirt-seminar-2018/

Pianodrome wood ID workshop
Apr 14, 2018

Location Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

Description A typical piano contains between 8 and 16 different species of wood - each part is carefully designed to achieve a very specific purpose, with a wood species selected to match. The hammers must be tough, the soundboard should be resonant and the case beautiful. Join Daniel Ridley-Ellis and Stefan Lehneke from the Centre for Wood Technology at Edinburgh Napier University, and Andrew Gibson of the Wood Technology Society, to discover which wood is used for each part of the piano, and how to tell your beech from your birch.

People Dan Ridley-Ellis
Stefan Lehneke

Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Location	Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Description	A typical piano contains between 8 and 16 different species of wood - each part is carefully designed to achieve a very specific purpose, with a wood species selected to match. The hammers must be tough, the soundboard should be resonant and the case beautiful. Join Daniel Ridley-Ellis and Stefan Lehneke from the Centre for Wood Technology at Edinburgh Napier University, and Andrew Gibson of the Wood Technology Society, to discover which wood is used for each part of the piano, and how to tell your beech from your birch.
People	Dan Ridley-Ellis Stefan Lehneke
Org Units	School of Engineering and The Built Environment School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

British Timber Seminar
Nov 29, 2017

Location IOM3 London
297 Euston Road
London, NW1 3AQ United Kingdom

Description Join this group of true wood enthusiasts for an entertaining and informative programme of short talks for the British forestry and timber community. The event will showcase some of the new products and progress in British timber and wood science, and its relevance to the industry today.

There will be opportunity to ask questions, network and discuss with others in the trade, consultants and specialists.

Refreshments from 16.30 pm

17.00 Home-grown timber now and in the future

Dan Ridley-Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University

17.30 New products from UK timbers

Morwenna Spear, Bangor University

18.00 Wood composites – microscopic to macroscopic

Martin Ansell, University of Bath

The Wood Technology Society is part of The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (IOM3). This free event is being held in ‘The Mine’, at the IOM3 headquarters, conveniently situated next to Warren Street tube station.

The Wood Technology Society, formerly the Institute of Wood Science (IWSc). Our purpose is to advance and encourage the scientific, technical, practical and general knowledge of timber and wood based materials.

People Dan Ridley-Ellis

Org Units School of Engineering and The Built Environment
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

URL http://www.iom3.org/wood-technology-society/

Location	IOM3 London 297 Euston Road London, NW1 3AQ United Kingdom
Description	Join this group of true wood enthusiasts for an entertaining and informative programme of short talks for the British forestry and timber community. The event will showcase some of the new products and progress in British timber and wood science, and its relevance to the industry today. There will be opportunity to ask questions, network and discuss with others in the trade, consultants and specialists. Refreshments from 16.30 pm 17.00 Home-grown timber now and in the future Dan Ridley-Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University 17.30 New products from UK timbers Morwenna Spear, Bangor University 18.00 Wood composites – microscopic to macroscopic Martin Ansell, University of Bath The Wood Technology Society is part of The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (IOM3). This free event is being held in ‘The Mine’, at the IOM3 headquarters, conveniently situated next to Warren Street tube station. The Wood Technology Society, formerly the Institute of Wood Science (IWSc). Our purpose is to advance and encourage the scientific, technical, practical and general knowledge of timber and wood based materials.
People	Dan Ridley-Ellis
Org Units	School of Engineering and The Built Environment School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
URL	http://www.iom3.org/wood-technology-society/