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Hosted by Woodknowledge Wales, the Timber 101 series explores the properties, performance, and specification of timber across the supply chain.

This session offers a hands-on introduction to wood as a natural resource and highlights its essential physical and mechanical characteristics.

We will cover:
• Variability in appearance, grain, texture and figure
• Density and its impact on performance
• Juvenile wood and reaction wood – and how to recognise them
• Corrosive interactions and chemical behaviour
• How timber behaves structurally and what this means in design

This session is ideal for specifiers and designers who need a better understanding of how wood’s material properties affect its use in construction.