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Free
Woodland Management & Bird Seminars
Using
Timber in Construction Seminar
Construct
an Event for Architecture Week
Weald & Downland
Sustainability
Day
Green Architecture Day
Timber in Architecture CPD
Elm
Aware: make use of Elm off-cuts
Memories
of Parsons Wood
Yard
Apprenticeship
in Trees & Timber
Weald WoodFair 2006
Classified
Wood Fuel
If you gain value from WoodLots
Show your support for WoodLots
Hold your
event at the Woodland Enterprise Centre
Wood
has a high strength-to-weight ratio. Strength for strength, pine and spruce
are 16 times lighter than steel and
5 times lighter than concrete
(www.woodforgood.com)
Woodland
Management & Birds Seminars
Tuesday
16th May at Cranleigh and Leith Hill in Surrey
Wednesday 17th May at Tonbridge & Tudeley Woods in Kent
Thurdsday 18th May at the Northmoor Trust in Oxfordshire
Part
of a series of free seminars for owners and managers of woodlands in
England,
organised by the Forestry Commission England and the RSPB. Promoted in the
South East in association with the Forestry & Timber Association and
WoodNet. Numbers
will be restricted at all venues and
bookings will be taken on a first
come first served basis. Please
mention that you heard about this event from WoodLots when booking.
Please contact Heather Pettitt at the Forestry Commission for more
information:
Email: fc.seeng.cons@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Tel: 01420 23337
Using
Timber in Construction:
Timber Sourcing, Grading
& Specification
22nd
March 2006, 10.30am-2.30pm, free
A
half day seminar
aimed at architects, specifiers, engineers and everyone using timber
in design, covering sourcing, grading and specification of hardwoods.
Organised by the Centre for Timber Engineering, in association with the
Forestry Commission. Click
here for more info (pdf)
At
Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey. Contact Louise Robertson,
tel: 01314
552323, email: lo.robertson@napier.ac.uk.
Construct
an Event
Time
to get organised for
this year’s Architecture Week.
WoodNet
invites you to get involved in Architecture Week 2006 by working with us to
create a series of events focusing on local timber as a healthy and
renewable building material. Construction & timber professionals, crafts
people, artists, arts groups and people who simply love timber architecture
are encouraged to host, in conjunction with WoodNet, walks, talks,
consultations, tours, film shows, presentations and demonstrations at the
Woodland Enterprise Centre or elsewhere. Funding may be available from the
Arts Council.
To discuss working on an event for Architecture Week with WoodNet
contact: David
Saunders, tel: 01580 879552, email: davids@woodnet.org.uk. Registration by
Friday 17th March for inclusion in the Architecture Week programme. See www.architectureweek.org.uk
& www.woodnet.org.uk/wec
Weald
& Downland
Sustainability Day
Sunday
May 21st, Weald &
Downland Open Air Museum
near
Singleton in West Sussex, including seminars in the award winning oak
Downland Gridshell, demonstrations and a wide variety of exhibits to
interest domestic users and professionals interested in ‘green’
techniques and products for building and sustainable living. A great
opportunity to promote the sustainable qualities of local timber in
construction and joinery.
To find out more about exhibiting or visiting contact Cathy Clark, tel:
01243 811014, email:
marketing@wealddown.co.uk, www.wealddown.co.uk
click logo for
more information
Green
Architecture Day
Saturday 4th March, 10.30am-4.30pm
free stalls and exhibitions with with illustrated talks by designers,
practitioners and professionals: Duncan
Baker-Brown
(BBM Sustainable Design), Paul Mustardé (Managing Director, GreenerLiving
Homes Ltd), David Saunders
(Project Manager, Woodland Enterprise Centre), straw-bale building
specialists Amazon Nails, amongst
others. Drop in for stalls and exhibits throughout the day, advance booking
required for illustrated talks.
A Brighton
Permaculture Trust event at Hove Town Hall, Norton Rd, Brighton & Hove. More
information at: www.brightonpermaculture.co.uk,
M: 07746 185927, enquiries@brightonpermaculture.co.uk
Timber
in Architecture CPD
Using
wood in sustainable, innovative & creative design. Tuesday 14th March for
architects, designers, civil/structural engineers, builders, developers,
environmental consultants, local planning authorities, timber manufacturers
& wood specialists. RIBA, London W1.
Contact: Contstruct
Conferences
Tel: 0845 056
8069
Email: constructconferences@emap.com
www.ajtimberdesign.co.uk
Elm
Aware - make use of Elm off-cuts
ElmAware
Project Officer, Mary Parker, is keen to make contact with crafts people
who would like to receive green elm wood, and retail outlets willing to
stock locally made wood products. The coastline of the South East from
Shoreham to Eastbourne has the world’s largest population of mature
elms. The ElmAware project aims to promote these majestic trees as the
distinctive feature of the outstanding natural beauty of the surrounding
countryside. These protected trees occassionally succumb to elm disease and have to be
felled. The largest logs are sold to sawmills but until now the smaller
wood has been destroyed. ElmAware aims to find uses for this wasted
resource and to develop a market for elm wood products.
Contact:
Mary Parker, tel: 01273 481563, Email: mparker@southdowns-aonb.gov.uk
Memories
of Parsons Wood
Yard
Artist
Sara Grisewood is
keen to hear from people with early memories of Parsons Wood Yard in
Lewes (currently the site of Wenban-Smith) to help with her project based
on the history of the wood industry in East Sussex. There has been a wood
yard on this site for at least 175 years. Sara’s paintings will be
exhibited at the Thebes Gallery in Lewes, 4th-19th March.
Contact
Sara Grisewood, tel: 01273 476003,
email: sgrisewood@tiscali.co.uk
Apprenticeship
in Trees & Timber
Develop
a career and train at the same time:
Employers
may be interested to know that Plumpton College now offers Work Based
Learning in forestry, arboriculture and sawmilling resulting in NVQ Level
2, covering the care and management of trees, woodlands and forests and
the production of wood and timber products.
Employers
considering taking on an apprentice (sawmillers, foresters, estate
managers, arboriculturalists) and those wishing to become apprentices
contact: Work Based
Learning at Plumpton College, Tel: 01273 892050,
email: wbl@plumpton.ac.uk, www.plumpton.ac.uk
(Services to Business section)
Weald
WoodFair 2006
Dates for your diary: September 15,16 & 17
Make sure your timber products and services are on show at the leading
wood show in the South East. 10,000 visitors over three days at Bentley
Wildfowl & Motor Museum, nr Lewes, East Sussex.
For exhibitor information and bookings tel: 01825 840870, fax: 01825
841322, email: barrysutherland@pavilion.co.uk
Classified
Wood Fuel
We have introduced a
new classified advertising category, ‘Sustainable Wood Fuel’ to
help raise the profile of this carbon neutral fuel source. If you supply
or are seeking firewood, charcoal or boiler grade wood chip from local
sustainable sources you can now advertise your product in this new
section. All adverts also appear at www.woodlots.org.uk.
Weald WoodNet are developing a database of wood fuel suppliers with a view
to maximising the potential to supply the developing bioheat industry. Please
let us know if you would like to be part of this network. Contact: Jenny
Martin, 01580 879552, jenny@woodnet.org.uk
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For small or large meetings,
conferences,
workshops, exhibitions and private functions, the Woodland Enterprise Centre offers 150 square metres of exhibition and conference
space, plus smaller meeting rooms, all within 22 hectares of
demonstration woodland at Flimwell, just south of Tunbridge Wells on the
East Sussex/Kent border in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty.
For bookings throughout 2005-06 please contact:
Weald WoodNet, Tel: 01580 879552, www.woodnet.org.uk/wec,
Email: info@woodnet.org.uk