Search Results: 'Wood Technology Society'

Biomass - dangers or dividends?
10 December, 2011
There is growing legislative, business and social pressure for energy to be derived from renewable sources and one source increasingly in the frame is woodfuel. The concern in the forestry and timber industry is that this will increase competition for its raw material and push up prices. We asked Alastair Kerr, Wood Panel Industries Federation director-general, and Charles Hendry, minister of state for energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, to give timber industry and government perspectives on this increasingly urgent issue

North-east gets in the swing for TTBS
24 September, 2011

Timber futures in an information age
23 July, 2011
Ian Oldrey, director of Ten-25 Software, sees a future where ‘smart’ timber can communicate its potential end uses while it’s still growing in the forest

Coulson makes repeat appearance on Radio 4
15 July, 2011

Northern Ireland students dominate wood awards
14 July, 2011

Back to a sustainable future
19 February, 2011
Architect Tom Noonan proposes reforestation and the rediscovery and reinvention of timber construction to create a sustainable future for London