APTs Guest Speaker talks natural materials

Annual General Meeting

Monday

24 May 2010

7.30 pm

Croy Village Hall

Guest Speaker - Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson is an architect and director of the Wood Studio, a postgraduate research centre within Edinburgh Napier University’s Forest Products Research Institute. The Centre’s focus is on innovation in the use of timber in architecture and construction, a specialist area that reflects Peter’s career-long interest in the use of indigenous building materials, and in recent years has both edited and been the publisher of several reference publications, cd-roms and websites aimed at raising standards in the use of timber in architecture and construction, including 'Designing with Timber', 'Timber Cladding in Scotland', 'Making the Grade – a guide to appearance grading UK grown hardwood timber' and ‘Sustainable Timber Construction – sourcing and specifying local timber’. Aside from timber-oriented publications, he has edited and published 'Building with Scottish Stone’, ‘Housing and Sound Insulation’, ‘Home Improvements – A Sustainability Guide’ (the latter a website for Scottish Building Standards). His own book, ‘New Timber Architecture in Scotland in Scotland’ was published in December 2007 and, in addition to a follow-up volume to this, he is currently working on several new publications including an architect’s pocket guide to timber.

He is a regular contributor on architecture and related subjects to a number of journals and magazines including the Architects' Journal, Building Design, Prospect, the Scotsman, TTJ and Timber Building and is frequently requested by other sections of the media to comment on new developments and other construction-related issues. In this guise he produces ‘Wilson’s Weekly Wrap’ for the www.urbanrealm.co.uk website.