Timber 2025 Programme Timetable

Updated: 27 October 2025 - 16:33

Presenting authors are undelined

         

 

 

Start Time End time 11 November 2025
Millennium Point, Birmingham
Location: Connect 1,2,3
09:00 09:10  
Welcome Address
Morwenna Spear, IOM3 Wood Technology Group Chair & Bangor University

 
       
09:10 09:30  
Trees for what? The future role of UK sawmilling in an import dominated sector
Rob MacKenna, James Jones & Sons

 
       
09:30 09:50  
Growing Tomorrow’s Timber: Trends, Challenges, and the Role of the Professional Forester
Caroline Harrison, ICF
 
       
09:50 10:10  
Summary on recent research supporting the use of birch timber in construction
Marlene Cramer, Edinburgh Napier University & Dan Ridley-Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University

 
       
10:10 10:30  
Mid-century Bungalow Retrofit: A UK Case Study in Offsite Timber and MMC
Jiar Sadiq, Edinburgh Napier University

 
       
10:30 10:50  
Networking Break
Atrium
 
       
10:50 10:59  
Changeover Time
(Please make your way swiftly to your next session for a smooth transition to a 2-minute Armistice Day Silence)

 
       
11:00 11:02  
2-minute Armistice Day Silence
 
       
11:05 11:25  
Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Hygroscopic Materials - Applications in Wood Drying and Climate Change
Cameron Belden, Swansea University
 
       
11:25 11:45  
CLT moisture content measurement with textile distributed sensors
Riccardo Marchesi, Knitronix Ltd

 
       
11:45 12:05  
Super-black wood veneer: Manufacture, properties and applications
Phil Evans, University of British Columbia, Canada

 
       
12:05 12:25  
From plants to electronics: The journey towards microfibrillated cellulose-based electronics
Zainab Saleem, Bangor University, Athanasios Dimitriou & Mohammed Mabrook

 
       
12:25 12:45  
Novel Nanotechnology Surface Treatments to protect the appearance of Outdoor Timber
Mike Attfield, Exergenics & Riaz Choudhery, Yingqian Xu

 
       
12:45 13:05  
A review of the manufacture, properties and performance of charred wood cladding
Andy Pitman, Filros & Dennis Jones, Luleå University of Technology
 
       
13:05 14:00  
Networking Lunch
Atrium
 
       
14:00 15:00  



Timber 2025 delegates to join the Circular Economy Keynote in the Auditorium.


Keynote B – Circular Economy
Mary Creagh CBE MP, Minister for Nature. Labour MP for Coventry East

Location: Auditorium

Panel B – Circular Economy
Mary Creagh CBE MP, Minister for Nature. Labour MP for Coventry East
Libby Peake, Senior Fellow & Head of Resource Policy, Green Alliance
Professor Mark Miodownik MBE FREng CEng HonFIMMM, Professor of Materials & Society, University College London
Iain Gulland, Chief Executive, Zero Waste Scotland

 

       
15:00 15:45  
Networking Break
Atrium
 
       
15:45 16:15  
Keynote
Commercial Timber Guidebook and recent architectural case studies

Andrew Skinner, Elliott Wood
 
       
16:15 16:35  
Advancing sustainable construction through engineered timber in mid-rise housing
Davina Wang, University of Cambridge & Dr Antiopi Koronaki, University of Cambridge
 
       
16:35 16:55    

Building sustainable cities: the perceived influence of mass timber on SDG 11 in South Africa
Emma Ayesu-Koranteng, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

       
16:55 17:15  
Climate conscious quality assured timber construction: Could the Passivhaus standard be a Golden Thread for the timber industry?
Tabitha Binding, Coaction Training CIC / Passivhaus Trust
 
       
17:15 17:35  
Experimental Study of Structural Performance of Timber-Concrete Composites Using Sustainable Concrete
Aamir Khokhar, Edinburgh Napier University

 
       
17:35 17:45  
Closing Address
Morwenna Spear, IOM3 Wood Technology Group Chair & Bangor University