{"id":47662,"date":"2018-10-03T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=47662"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:53:42","slug":"timber-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector&#8217;s knowledge about building with timber<\/h2>\n<p>Industry experts will gather for a day of talks, Q&amp;As and energetic debate at\u00a0the Royal Geographical Society in London on the 15th November.<\/p>\n<p>The timber conference is aimed at everyone \u2013 from architects and engineers to suppliers and clients \u2013 and aspires to support individuals looking to hone their talents when it comes to designing superb structures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/timberline-diy-ltd-fined-worker-injury\/47385\/\">timber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four central sessions will dominate the day&#8217;s proceedings and attempts to unite inspirational case studies with practical hands-on guidance where high-performance is critical.<\/p>\n<p>Planned talks and discussions will consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The awe-inspiring Macallan Distillery, arguably one of the most complex timber structures ever built in the UK;<\/li>\n<li>The potential of timber design guides, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trada.co.uk\/\">TRADA<\/a>\u2019s <em>National Structural Timber Specification<\/em> (NSTS), which attempt to encapsulate decades of experience and innovation into streamlined documents that helpfully steer you to specify right from the ground up;<\/li>\n<li>Current issues affecting the timber industry and well-rounded, practical solutions to them;<\/li>\n<li>Correctly designing timber structures in relation to fire safety and durability; and<\/li>\n<li>How we can utilise reports from home warranty and insurance providers, and quantity surveyors, to discover our past successes and mistakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TRADA&#8217;s marketing manager, Rupert Scott said:\u00a0\u201cThe Better Timber Buildings conference is about switching tack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Timber\u2019s popularity continues to grow but now, more than ever, we need to look further and begin taking our timber buildings to the next level. This means aspiring to do a better job right through the chain \u2013 from specification to completion \u2013 and the best way to start is collectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more about the event click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bettertimberbuildings.eventbrite.co.uk\">http:\/\/bettertimberbuildings.eventbrite.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector&#8217;s knowledge about building with timber. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[702,676,636,915],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-architecture","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-engineering","10":"tag-timber"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TRADA and Exova BM TRADA to host one day timber conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector&#039;s knowledge about building with timber.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector&#039;s knowledge about building with timber.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-03T07:53:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Macallan-Distillery-c-Mark-Power-Magnum-Photos.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"895\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sally Eccleston\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@PBC_Today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PBC_Today\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sally Eccleston\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5f4ccf6acddfe485bec7556a9d49203e\"},\"headline\":\"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-03T07:53:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\"},\"wordCount\":303,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Architecture\",\"Construction Processes\",\"Engineering\",\"Timber\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Planning &amp; Construction News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2018\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\",\"name\":\"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA to host one day timber conference\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-03T07:53:42+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector's knowledge about building with timber.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today\",\"description\":\"The Latest Planning, Building &amp; Construction News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Planning, Building & Construction Today\",\"alternateName\":\"PBC Today\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Planning, Building & Construction Today\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/PBC_Today\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5f4ccf6acddfe485bec7556a9d49203e\",\"name\":\"Sally Eccleston\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/529726b4f3deecd468a3918b549d084a26f0b578930ace4a43e3472ab4a3f150?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/529726b4f3deecd468a3918b549d084a26f0b578930ace4a43e3472ab4a3f150?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sally Eccleston\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/author\/sallyeccleston\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA to host one day timber conference","description":"The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector's knowledge about building with timber.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference","og_description":"The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector's knowledge about building with timber.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/","og_site_name":"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/","article_published_time":"2018-10-03T07:53:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":895,"url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Macallan-Distillery-c-Mark-Power-Magnum-Photos.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sally Eccleston","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@PBC_Today","twitter_site":"@PBC_Today","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/"},"author":{"name":"Sally Eccleston","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5f4ccf6acddfe485bec7556a9d49203e"},"headline":"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference","datePublished":"2018-10-03T07:53:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/"},"wordCount":303,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Architecture","Construction Processes","Engineering","Timber"],"articleSection":["Planning &amp; Construction News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2018","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/","name":"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA to host one day timber conference","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-10-03T07:53:42+00:00","description":"The Better Timber Buildings conference aims to unite the industry to improve the sector's knowledge about building with timber.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timber-buildings\/47662\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TRADA and Exova BM TRADA join forces to host one day timber conference"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/","name":"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today","description":"The Latest Planning, Building &amp; Construction News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization","name":"Planning, Building & Construction Today","alternateName":"PBC Today","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"Planning, Building & Construction Today"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/","https:\/\/x.com\/PBC_Today"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5f4ccf6acddfe485bec7556a9d49203e","name":"Sally Eccleston","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/529726b4f3deecd468a3918b549d084a26f0b578930ace4a43e3472ab4a3f150?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/529726b4f3deecd468a3918b549d084a26f0b578930ace4a43e3472ab4a3f150?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sally Eccleston"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk"],"url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/author\/sallyeccleston\/"}]}},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 21:34:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47662"},{"taxonomy":"stakeholder_rel_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stakeholder_rel_tag?post=47662"},{"taxonomy":"contributor_rel_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor_rel_tag?post=47662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}