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| Start Time | End time | 11 November 2025 Millennium Point, Birmingham Location: Connect 1,2,3 |
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| 09:00 | 09:10 | Welcome Address Morwenna Spear, IOM3 Wood Technology Group Chair & Bangor University |
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| 09:10 | 09:30 | Trees for what? The future role of UK sawmilling in an import dominated sector Rob MacKenna, James Jones & Sons |
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| 09:30 | 09:50 | Growing Tomorrow’s Timber: Trends, Challenges, and the Role of the Professional Forester Caroline Harrison, ICF |
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| 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 |
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| 10:10 | 10:30 | Mid-century Bungalow Retrofit: A UK Case Study in Offsite Timber and MMC Jiar Sadiq, Edinburgh Napier University |
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| 10:30 | 10:50 | Networking Break Atrium |
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| 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) |
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| 11:00 | 11:02 | 2-minute Armistice Day Silence |
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| 11:05 | 11:25 | Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Hygroscopic Materials - Applications in Wood Drying and Climate Change Cameron Belden, Swansea University |
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| 11:25 | 11:45 | CLT moisture content measurement with textile distributed sensors Riccardo Marchesi, Knitronix Ltd |
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| 11:45 | 12:05 | Super-black wood veneer: Manufacture, properties and applications Phil Evans, University of British Columbia, Canada |
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| 12:05 | 12:25 | From plants to electronics: The journey towards microfibrillated cellulose-based electronics Zainab Saleem, Bangor University, Athanasios Dimitriou & Mohammed Mabrook |
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| 12:25 | 12:45 | Novel Nanotechnology Surface Treatments to protect the appearance of Outdoor Timber Mike Attfield, Exergenics & Riaz Choudhery, Yingqian Xu |
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| 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 |
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| 13:05 | 14:00 | Networking Lunch Atrium |
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| 14:00 | 15:00 |
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| 15:00 | 15:45 | Networking Break Atrium |
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| 15:45 | 16:15 | Keynote Commercial Timber Guidebook and recent architectural case studies Andrew Skinner, Elliott Wood |
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| 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 |
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| 16:35 | 16:55 |
Building sustainable cities: the perceived influence of mass timber on SDG 11 in South Africa |
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| 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 |
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| 17:15 | 17:35 | Experimental Study of Structural Performance of Timber-Concrete Composites Using Sustainable Concrete Aamir Khokhar, Edinburgh Napier University |
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| 17:35 | 17:45 | Closing Address Morwenna Spear, IOM3 Wood Technology Group Chair & Bangor University |
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