Where do the timbers within our buildings come from? Stanbrook Abbey, Yorkshire Timber Species: Spruce, Douglas fir, European oak,...

Where do the timbers within our buildings come from? The Enterprise Centre, Norwich, East Anglia Timber Species: English Corsican pine,...

Where do the timbers within our buildings come from? Sunbeams Music Centre, Cumbria Timber Species: Canadian western red cedar, European...

The diagram above relates to the types of timber that were used to construct HMS Trafalgar, an old warship launched in 1765. Eleven...

I attended a lecture by Andrew Waugh, championing CLT construction. Here he outlined the benefits of building with timber. Responsibly...

Workers at the Wyre Forest sawmill informed me that the problem with the trees grown in the Wyre Forest are too wonky to fit through the...

I believe large tree planting schemes require a much higher level of thought in order to maximise their potential... The government has...

I have been working with a popular national garden and woodland destination to build a simple woodland structure. The structure is to be...

Following completion of MArch 1 I spent 6 weeks at the home of Earthship in Taos, New Mexico. I learnt about passive solar earth shelters...

Commercial forests in the UK, which are planted to supply the demand for the construction industry, are limited in species of tree....

Testing the strength of 4m x 25mm x 8mm strips of wood to create a place to lean against in the woods.

I spent a week at the international educational platform, Hello Wood in rural Hungary. The importance of designing and building with wood...

Concerns about the sustainability of forest resources and ecosystems have been expressed by ecologists, biologists and economists. How...

Whilst having a high forest cover is great for absorbing Co2 and provides countries such as Finland and Sweden with a productive timber...

The purpose of The Great Green Wall of China is to push back the Gobi desert which have rapidly expanded over the last half a century....

This large tree-planting project stretches across roughly 6,000 miles of terrain at the southern edge of the Sahara desert, a region...