Search Results: 'Napier University'

Applied science
08 December, 2007
This year’s IWSc conference addressed the issue of moving from innovation to application

Industry to tap into government skills funds
24 November, 2007

Timber careers on show around UK
22 November, 2007

Napier professor awarded top accolade
30 October, 2007

Bridge study claims STTA prize
29 October, 2007

Scottish tour to attract women to timber
26 October, 2007

Training committee goes to fair
26 October, 2007

IWSc conference to tackle innovation into application
06 October, 2007

First MSc in Timber Industry Management
12 August, 2007

Sound waves measure wood
25 July, 2007
Technology that uses sound waves to assess the properties of wood has been displayed at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London.

Students win STTA praise
19 July, 2007
Three students from the Centre for Timber Engineering at Napier University have been awarded prizes for their work with wood by the Scottish Timber Trade Association (STTA).

Industry heads discuss cohesion
07 July, 2007
A summit of the heads of the UK’s timber organisations will lead to better co-operation in the industry, Timber Trade Federation (TTF) president Neil Donaldson has said.

Test us, says Cullen
24 May, 2007
Cullen Building Products Ltd has challenged the UK and Irish timber engineering sectors to come up with connector issues and problems for it to solve.

Norway leads the way
17 May, 2007
Scottish specifiers are to receive a lesson in timber construction when the Royal Norwegian Consulate General and Napier University's Centre for Timber Engineering stage the Houses in Wood seminar.

Centre closure limits wood training
27 April, 2007
The decision by Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (BCUC) to end wood-related teaching has left the UK with a limited number of postgraduate and masters courses in the sector, Gervais Sawyer from the Forest Products Research Centre (FPRC) has said.

IWSc conference venue revealed
24 April, 2007
The Institute of Wood Science (IWSc) has announced that it will hold its annual dinner and conference in Edinburgh on November 21-22.

STTA sponsors further student prize
21 April, 2007
The Scottish Timber Trade Association (STTA) is increasing its sponsorship of student prizes at Napier Univeristy's Centre for Timber Engineering.

Accoya acetylised wood in UK market this summer
02 April, 2007
The Titan Wood plant in Arnhem in the Netherlands has started up full-scale of the acetylisation-modified timber Accoya and the first commercial shipments are now due in the UK in June.

Timber in the round
31 March, 2007
Anne McDonald eavesdrops on a round-table discussion hosted by the Scottish Timber Trade Association

Up for the challenge
31 March, 2007
As delegates at the TRA annual general meeting heard, the sector may be threatened by the increase of multi-occupancy newbuild, but other opportunities exist