Timber Topics October 2025 | Wood Campus

by Jennie Ward|30 September 2530 September 25|Build, Supply

Timber Development UK has launched Wood Campus, a brand-new online school designed to provide flexible, accessible training for merchants and timber professionals. The platform offers more than 60 courses and hundreds of hours of potential learning.

Merchant Guide: Shorts – Structural and Framing Timbers

by Jennie Ward|29 June 2528 October 25|Build, Supply

Structural and framing timbers are designed for use during the early stages of a building's design to act as the base and load-bearing structure of the building

Timber Systems

by Jonathan Gutierrez|28 November 2312 August 24

Timber components can be combined to create different structural systems determined by a number of factors.

Lightweight Timber Frame Construction

by Edinburgh Napier University|01 November 2323 April 25|Build

As a renewable resource, lightweight timber frame has lower embodied energy than comparable building materials. It also achieves excellent thermal and acoustic performance, and high durability.

Trussed Rafters

by Edinburgh Napier University|01 November 2323 April 25|Build

Trussed rafters (or roof trusses) are engineered, prefabricated structural components manufactured using a combination of structural strength‐graded timber members, connected with punched-metal plate connectors.

Timber Typologies

by Waugh Thistleton Architects|07 June 2320 November 24|Build, Design, Sustainability

If timber is to realise its potential, we must know what we mean when we say timber.

Timber Topics October 2025 | Wood Campus

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