WoodLots 66 News March 2007
WEC
Open Day update (click
for PDF poster & map):
24th March, 11am-4pm
1pm: Free tour of award winning gridshell
building,
automated wood chip heating system, new
workshop
development & training room, plus:
-
Woodchip for wood fuel demonstration
- Plumpton College: timber
extraction, mobile sawmilling & climbing,
- Rustic Mushroom Co - grow
your own woodland mushrooms
- Yurtaria (yurt
construction & rental)
- Culverwells - tractors
& ATVs
- Jonathan Webb - woodland
management
- Display of plans for
Phase II Workhshop development (see
below)
- Meet the WoodNet Outreach
& Advice Officer
- Take a spring time walk
in the woods
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down for more news
The 20 hectares of semi-natural ancient woodland surrounding the Woodland Enterprise Centre provide a living classroom for woodland and timber training; the award winning gridshell building and forthcoming workshop development provide inspiring examples of joinery and construction using local timbers; the wood fuelled heating system demonstrates the use of local woodchip for renewable secure heat supply. See more at www.woodnet.org.uk/wec
WEC
Phase 2:
Workshops for Working Woodlands
Woodland
Enterprise Centre Phase 2 will provide eight workshops suitable for wood
working and timber processing businesses (B1) surrounded by 20 hectares of
semi-natural ancient woodland on the Sussex/Kent border.
Designed with the combined skills and experiences of the project team
including The Architecture Ensemble (Steve Johnson), Buro Happold
engineers, The Green Oak Carpentry Company, and Inwood Developments, the
workshops will be built from Sussex Larch and Douglas Fir, with Sussex
Chestnut cladding.
The University of Brighton will be using the development as a case study
to assess the embodied energy and environmental performance of the
buildings. Plumpton College will be leasing one of the workshops as a
training venue alongside their use of the WoodNet Classroom in the main
building. Plumpton students will be directly involved in the management of
the surrounding woodland.
For more information about buying or leasing a workshop at the Woodland
Enterprise Centre please contact:
