Thinking smart over fire safety

By Rebecca Goldsmith​, product marketing executive at MEDITE SMARTPLY WOOD panel products incorporating flame retardant treatment will slow down the development of a fire, allowing...

St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies strengthens senior team

ST Andrews Timber & Building Supplies has appointed Brian McVeigh as its first group key accounts manager. Most recently sales director with Woodbridge Timber, an...
South Elgin affordable homes location

Springfield Partnerships agrees £8.2m contract with Grampian Housing Association

SPRINGFIELD Partnerships, the affordable housing arm of the Springfield Group, has agreed a contract worth £8.2 million with Grampian Housing Association for the delivery...
Muir Timber Systems has delivered timber kits and roof trusses for new homes in Leslie

Muir Timber Systems delivers kits for 44-home Leslie site

MUIR Timber Systems has delivered timber kits and roof trusses for 44 new affordable homes in Leslie, a village near Glenrothes in Fife. The properties...
Persimmon Homes trial home

Developer unveils model home designed to trial new construction tech

PERSIMMON Homes has launched a new facility to enable its teams to trial new construction technologies and train staff. The developer unveiled the three-storey model...

Students tasked with using timber to design sustainable community centre

BUILT environment students and recent graduates have been challenged to design a community centre that is 'truly sustainable'. Trade membership body Timber Development UK is...

Timber frame specialist appoints local haulier as sole logistics partner

KIRKWOOD Timber Frame has appointed Aberdeen-based Dyce Carriers as its sole logistics partner. The move has been described as enabling Kirkwood to deliver its timber...

Construction starts on new luxury care home in Stirling

MORRISON Community Care Group is to expand its services with a new facility in Stirling.   Located on Randolph Road, the 50-bed Livilands Luxury Suites...
Eoghainn Mitchell, Kirkwood Timber Frame

Timber frame business appoints new sales chief

ABERDEENSHIRE-based Kirkwood Timber Frame has appointed Eoghainn Mitchell as head of sales for Scotland and England. Eoghainn, from Dunfermline, brings over a decade of experience...
John Swinney and Finlay Black tour Merkinch campus

CLT structure complete at Highland primary

THE largest school in Scotland to be constructed using a Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) frame is making good progress. Deputy First Minister and education secretary...

Turnover doubles in twelve months

ROBERTSON Group has seen its Timber Engineering business experience its most successful year in the past five years thanks to a string of new...

Harnessing the power of natural insulation

Andy Cook, technical specification advisor at Ecological Building Systems, explains why natural insulation is the perfect complement to timber frame construction TIMBER frame has, for...

‘First of its kind’ report calls for further research around timber cascading

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), Scottish Forestry and Zero Waste Scotland have published a new report exploring timber cascading in Scotland. The report -...

Historic Glasgow Green building restored in £3m project

WORK is complete on the £3 million project to restore the listed West Boathouse at Glasgow Green. Built in 1905 for Clyde Amateur Rowing Club...

BM TRADA launches new technical timber webinars

BM TRADA has announced a new programme of technical timber webinars to be delivered throughout 2023. Nine webinars will be split into three series –...
Grant Sanderson

Offsite timber frame manufacturer appoints head of technical

DONALDSON Timber Systems has announced the appointment of Grant Sanderson as head of technical. He joined as a structural engineer in 2015, before being promoted...
Stewart Dalgarno

Data gathering shows value of smart construction

Stewart Dalgarno, director of product development at Stewart Milne Timber Systems, believes that Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) has the...
Muir Timber Systems Factory, Inverkeithing

Muir to deliver timber kit package for new Angus development

WEST Developments has appointed Muir Timber Systems to provide timber frame solutions for its latest private housing development at Balruddery in Angus. The project will...

Project to double capacity of key Stirling learning hub progresses

WORK to double the capacity of a learning facility for Stirling's young people with additional support needs has reached a key milestone. Bluebell House, situated...

Advances in Scottish timber can support net zero efforts

By Sam Hart, innovation manager, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) IN the tale of the Three Little Pigs, only the house made of bricks survived...