Historic timber structures: assessment and reuse - June 2025
Date & Time

2 June 2025
10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location

47-58 Bastwick St, London, EC1V 3PS
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Price

Member early booking: £295 + VAT
Member: £335 + VAT
Standard: £445 + VAT

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Historic timber structures: assessment and reuse - June 2025

Historic timber structures: assessment and reuse - June 2025

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Date & Time

2 June 2025
10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location

47-58 Bastwick St, London, EC1V 3PS
View on Google Maps

Price

Member early booking: £295 + VAT
Member: £335 + VAT
Standard: £445 + VAT

Early booking discount

Available until one month prior

This one-day course introduces timber as an engineering material, with a focus on its use in historic structures. It covers non-destructive techniques for condition assessment and strategies for the reuse of heritage structures.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, attendees should be able to:

  • Recognise timber as an engineering material and explain the inherent strengths and weaknesses of this organic and ‘living’ material

  • Identify the cellular structure of timber in relation to softwoods and hardwoods

  • Appreciate the timber grading rules to softwoods and hardwoods, and employ the rules and strategies in assigning strength classes to timber used in existing structures

  • List the non-destructive testing techniques available in assessing timber used in historic structures

  • Distinguish the simple structural forms of constructions used in historic structures

Intended for

  • Graduate engineer

  • Mid-career engineer

  • Senior engineers/Team leader/Manager

  • Academic/ Researcher

Discount

25% discount on associated publications: Manual for the design of timber building structures to Eurocode 5 (2nd edition)Please contact [email protected] for more information.

Trainers

Dr Keerthi Ranasinghe

Dr Keerthi Ranasinghe is an Associate at Milner Associates and was previously the Principal Engineer for Structural Timber at BM TRADA. Formerly an academic with research and teaching experience both in the UK and abroad, Keerthi has delivered timber courses for IStructE since 2008. He is the author of several TRADA publications, including Span Tables to Eurocode 5, and the Institution’s Manual for the design of timber building structures to Eurocode 5, 2nd edition. He sits on British and European Standardisation Committees related to timber design.

Philip O’Leary

Philip O’Leary is the section leader for Timber Technology Investigations at BM TRADA, the technical authority behind TRADA. With around 30 years of postqualifying experience, Philip has published in local and international journals about wood science. Phil is the leading authority at TRADA for Visual Strength Grading and is also the Assessor for Qualified Visual Strength Graders.

Contact

Email - [email protected]

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