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The Thornton Building: timber in its DNA
by Matt Milton|02 August 26|Design
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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LKR Innovation House – a 1990s timber warehouse transformed
by Matt Milton|20 July 26|Build, Design
A former timber warehouse, located in Østbirk, Denmark, has been reimagined and transformed into a vibrant innovation hub - a new workspace for Velux employees.
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UK timber in construction
by Jennie Ward|06 April 26|Build, Supply
Robin Nicholson from Buckland Timber, a Grown in Britain certificate holder, shares his thoughts on homegrown C16 and how there's more scope for using UK-grown timber than you might think. Despite the availability of quality, sustainable, homegrown alternatives, approximately 80% of the timber used in the UK is still imported....
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Embodied Carbon Data for Timber Products
by TDUK|04 March 26|Design, Sustainability
Although timber is classed as a low embodied carbon construction material, different timber products will have different embodied carbon values depending on the energy inputs during processing and transportation.
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Sustainable timber and steel hybrid transforms sports centre
by Jennie Ward|11 February 26|Build, Supply
B&K Hybrid Solutions, a leading specialist in engineered timber and hybrid construction, has played a pivotal role in the creation of Cozenton Park Sports Centre; a state-of-the-art leisure facility that exemplifies sustainable and innovative design. The project, located in Rainham, Medway, replaced the aging 1990s ‘Splashes’ pool complex with an...
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Timber Topics January 2026 | Fencing
by Jennie Ward|05 January 26|Build, Supply
As cold weather approaches, make sure you have sufficient stock of fence panels so that customers can fulfil any repair work if the UK faces heavy storms over the coming months. TDUK is also reminding all merchants to make sure your teams know the different timber treatment Use Classes, so...
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Timber Topics December 2025 | EPD Database
by Jennie Ward|01 December 25|Build, Supply
 Don’t forget you can explore Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for a wide range of timber products through Timber Development UK’s online EPD database.
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Engineered timber excels in education setting
by Jennie Ward|24 October 25|Build, Supply
B&K Structures has played a fundamental role in the construction of the new SciTech Centre at Haileybury School in Hertfordshire, a trailblazing project which fully embraces the aesthetics of engineered timber. Offsite manufactured timber technology has contributed to the fast and flawless delivery of this complex and beautiful education facility,...
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Building better train stations: Why TFL chose timber over steel
by Jennie Ward|30 September 25|Build, Supply
TDUK member Buckland Timber has been working on major redevelopments for Transport for London. Here, they explain why glulam and CLT was chosen for the projects instead of the more usual steel and concrete approach. We were commissioned by Morgan Sindall Infrastructure for Transport for London (TfL) on two separate...
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Glulam helps Unusual building achieve Passivhaus
by Jennie Ward|22 August 25|Supply
Founded in 1983, Unusual Rigging is a veteran provider of rigging and stage engineering solutions with an exceptional commitment to sustainability. Its new headquarters in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, is on the cutting-edge of building design and required high performance materials to deliver on its goal of achieving Passivhaus standards. The building...
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