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designTimber 2026 webinar series wrap-up
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Running from February to August, the now-concluded 2026 series of designTimber webinars explored the opportunities and challenges of designing and building with timber across a diverse range of projects and settings. Across the series, the seven webinars – delivered by the architects, structural engineers, specialist timber subcontractors, clients and fabricators...
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The Thornton Building: timber in its DNA
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A three-storey, mass-timber office building, the Thornton Building provides workspace for over 200 staff of EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute. Completed in summer 2024, the building is an essential part of the masterplan for the Wellcome Genome Campus at Hinxton Hall near Cambridge.  Thornton Building exterior; © Peter Landers Its flexible...
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Hope Street
Hope Street: The Role of Mass Timber in Trauma Informed Design
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A Thought Leader by Mike Worthington. The original content in this article is by Eurban Limited, and was  first published on LinkedIn as part of Eurban’s ‘Thought Leader’ series on mass timber construction. Copyright: Eurban Limited/Mike Worthington/Eve Dennehy. In 2023, working closely with Snug Architects, Eurban were proud to be...
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Technique Building extension retrofit glulam CLT exterior
The Technique Building
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The Technique Building received a new lease of life by a superstructure of glulam column-and-beam frame, and new storeys (with solid CLT floor slabs) added to the top. The building's six storeys feature high ceilings and generous open volumes.
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Lower James Street
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This rooftop extension of a 1920s office building used pre-fabricated CLT to create a dramatic double-height office space with a mezzanine floor and angled rooflights.
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timber neighbourhood
Planning permission granted for UK’s largest timber neighbourhood
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Human Nature’s radically sustainable plan for 685 new timber-frame homes for Lewes, in East Sussex, has been approved. One year after the proposal to transform a neglected 7.9-hectare brownfield site into a vibrant green neighbourhood was announced, the Phoenix development has been given the go ahead by the South Downs...
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Eurban: Timber trailblazers since 2003
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TDUK's members know about timber construction. But only one of them can lay claim to have delivered the UK’s first ever CLT project. That is Eurban, who have been creating engineered timber buildings for over 20 years. In 2004, Eurban provided what's thought to be the UK’s first cross-laminated timber...
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Regreening an unloved site
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Hayhurst & Co have created a verdant, light-filled CLT home that uses space to maximal effect. Commissioned by the clients to design a fun and exciting home for their young family, London-based architects Hayhurst & Co drew on the greenery and natural history of the site to create a re-imagined,...
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Pells Garden rain garden (Human Nature with Periscope)
The UK’S biggest timber development ever?
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The recently announced Phoenix Development in Lewes looks set to be the largest timber development the UK has ever seen. It is currently awaiting planning permission but, fingers crossed, it will provide 700 sustainably sourced timberframe homes. The developers, Human Nature, hope to kick-start a whole new revival in sustainable...
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