Scottish Timber
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TIMBER & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
RIAS Sustainable Timber Conference, 17 + 18 Oct 2002
The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh, Scotland

Sustainable Timber: Scottish Building Industry

By adopting multidisciplinary solutions, the past can inform the future. Timber and the Built Environment aims to offer guidance, engender confidence, and positively demonstrate to practitioners the benefits of sourcing and using sustainably produced timbers.
Specifiers should have a better awareness of the context and profile of timber in terms of maintenance in order to design in success. The programme will present a variety of relevant case studies to offer a broader understanding of the material’s potential.
This Timber conference will be useful to inter-disciplinary groups including: planners, building control officers, architects, surveyors, academics, conservationists, timber industry, manufacturers and suppliers, timber treatment specialists and public sector agencies.
This Timber Architecture event supports the Scottish Executive’s policy on architecture which aims to develop an understanding of architectural and sustainability issues and the provision of appropriate skills for the building industry.
Timber and the Built Environment will address perceptions and challenges associated with timber in use. Drawing on experience from the past, it will provide guidance, inspiration and new ideas for the future use of timber through good design.



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Sustainable Timber Architecture - Conference Organisers:
Historic Scotland
Scottish Executive
Forestry Commission
University of Abertay, Dundee
International Society for the Built Environment
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland

Sustainable Timber Architecture - Conference Topics:
Sustainable timber production and sourcing in Scotland
Timber management in historic buildings
Future trends in timber treatment
Healthy design and healthy buildings
Current practice in conservation and repair
Engineering a heritage solution today
Timber case studies in Scotland, the UK and Scandanavia



For more info on Scottish Timber contact: Forestry Commission, Scotland

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