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CLT versus Tongue & Groove
CLT versus Tongue & Groove sounds like someone who could be in line for this year’s Christmas number one.
But we’re talking mass timber panels.
Assistant Project Manager Vacancy
At Buckland Timber, we’re busier than ever.
And we’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager to help us manage the load…
Meet the Team: Antonio Savinelli
How long have you been working for Buckland and what do you do?
I’ve been working here since October 2018 and I’m a Structural Engineer. I mainly do design, reports, site surveys and technical advising…
Buying timber from Tom or Fred down the road
It feels like we’ve come full circle with locally grown timber. When we set up the business in 2012, we had the best of intentions of making all our glulam out of locally grown but at the time there only seemed to be a few customers who cared about this…
Meet the Team: Brent Dicks
How long have you been working for Buckland and what do you do?
I’ve been here for seven years, from the beginning. It started off with Robin and myself making beams, just the two of us. Now there’s 13 of us and I run the shop floor, managing all of the production from the carpentry to making the beams…
7 of the Most Unusual Glulam House Extensions That We’ve Ever Built
Building an extension is the usual way that homeowners go to add more space to their place but the way they choose to do it can be far from normal. We’ve been lucky enough to be part of the design, manufacture and build process for a few wonderfully weird glulam house extensions.
For the love of the great outdoors
Based in Devon, being outdoors is more of a way of life, than a nice to do, for many of us who work at Buckland Timber.
London Design Festival – Talk to me
Over the years we have had a number of very tiny commissions and some giant ones, but up until last month no actual giants!
Climate Emergency
In May 1919 the UK government declared a climate emergency – a year later has our behaviour in relation to construction changed?
From Forest to Frame – Wood for Good
Currently most structural glulam timber used in the UK is imported from other European countries…