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The Green Oak 
Carpentry Company 
won Best Use of British Timber at the Wood Awards 2006 for their consistent high quality work in British wood, which can be seen in projects such as the Weald & Downland Gridshell, Chithurst Buddhist Monastery and The Savill Building on the Crown Estate at Windsor.  

The Savill Building utilises larch from the Crown Estate in a highly engineered gridshell form resulting in an impressively undulating roof that ‘appears to float above the ground, like a magic carpet’ (Michael Buckley, FIWSc, World Hardwoods). The Green Oak Carpentry Company were both consultant designers and builders of The Savill Building Visitors’ Centre, the design taking inspiration from the Weald and Downland oak gridshell (also built by Green Oak), a previous Wood Awards winner (2003).

The Savill Building won the Commercial & Public Access category, the Structural category and the Gold Award for the best winner from the architectural-based categories.

For more information on The Green Oak Carpentry Company go to:  www.greenoakcarpentry.co.uk  

Photos top to bottom: Savill gridshell during construction (photo W Sweeney); the Crown Estate oak forests with Head Forester Derek Stickler (photo D Saunders); Laurie Braden (Inwood Developments Ltd) finger-jointing larch for the Savill Building (photo W Sweeney).

For information on all the 2006 winners and entry into The Wood Awards 2007 please go to: www.woodawards.com, email: info@woodawards.com, T: 07957 730707. For Wood Awards Press & PR queries, email: lucy@turnstonecommunications.com