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Editorial
Completed
in March 2005, the above 70m2 visitor
block at Trosley Country Park in Kent offers a humble yet
inspirational story for the wood industry and related businesses
throughout the South East.
Timber for the sweet chestnut cladding was sourced within the Park and
milled by Nick Raeside, a regular WoodLots advertiser. Oak decking and
douglas fir were supplied by Ecomerchant, suppliers of sustainable
building materials based in Kent. The structural grade douglas fir
originally came from Cowdray Estate in West Sussex. Structural grade
sweet chestnut was finger jointed and laminated by Inwood Developments
in East Sussex.
EcoLibrium Solutions, the main building contractors, are members of
the Association for Environment Conscious Building
(AECB) and winners of
the Kent Environment Business of the Year Award 2005. In addition to
the main construction, EcoLibrium Solutions provided advice on
sustainability at the design stage and manufactured all the joinery in
sweet chestnut. Topped
off with a sedum roof, the timber framed staff room and toilet block
is built to a high environmental specification with local timber at
the core of the building’s award winning credentials.
You can see more examples of the impressively versatile use of local
sweet chestnut in architecture in our feature
on Inwood Developments Ltd. The TimberBuild Network
have just won approval for eight timber frame workshops at the
Woodland Enterprise Centre. Plans will be on show at the forthcoming
Woodland Enterprise Centre Open Weekend in June, part of
Architecture Week 2006. Hope to see you there.
Jenny Martin,
WoodLots Editor
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