Inspired by Timber in Construction - Seminar & Site Visit
at the Woodland Enterprise Centre, near Flimwell, East Sussex
Saturday 23rd June, 2pm-5pm
Part of Architecture Week 2007

A WOODNET Event - www.woodnet.org.uk. This event will be of particular interest to architects, construction professionals, self-builders, students and those with an interest in producing and using local renewable timber for architecture.

THE SEMINAR, held in the Civic Trust award winning sweet chestnut gridshell building (WEC Phase I), will be followed by a site tour of the new workshop development using laminated local timbers in a modern timber frame design (WEC Phase II). The team behind Phase II has an impressive collective portfolio featuring innovative and award winning projects – The Saville Building, Weald & Downland Gridshell, Woodland Enterprise Centre Gridshell, Shorne Wood Country Park Visitors Centre, Scottish Houses of Parliament.

PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSIONS WITH:

Steve Johnson (Architect), Architecture Ensemble
Weald & Downland Oak Gridshell

Nigel Braden, Inwood Developments (Timber Lamination)
Saville Building, Woodland Enterprise Centre, Scottish
Houses of Parliament, Shorne Wood Visitor Centre

Andrew Holloway, Green Oak Carpentry (Building Contractor)
Saville Building (Wood Awards Winner 2006),

Weald & Downland Oak Gridshell
David Pattenden, Westgate Joinery (Manufacturing Joinery)
Woodland Enterprise Centre, Hesmonds Barn (Wood Awards 2006 shortlist)

David Saunders, Woodland Enterprise Centre (Client)
Project Manager, WEC Phase I and Phase II

GUIDED SITE VISIT See the first two light-industrial timber framed workshops under construction, surrounded by 20 hectares of semi-natural ancient woodland in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Sussex/Kent border.

BOOKING: (booking form attached)

Tickets: £12.00
Low income/students: £6.00
Family Ticket: £24.00
Family Concession: £12.00
Optional lunch £10.00

BOOKING DEADLINE: Friday 8th June. Please send cheques payable to WoodNet with contact name, address, phone number, email address & specific booking requirements to: WoodNet, Woodland Enterprise Centre, Hastings Road, Flimwell, East Sussex, TN5 7PR. All bookings will be confirmed by phone or email. For group bookings or bookings after 8th June, please phone for availability.

OPTIONAL LUNCH with the team: you are warmly invited to join us for a pre-booked buffet lunch at 1.15pm before the main programme commences at 2pm, details below.

LOCATION: The WEC is just South of Flimwell on the A21, on the East Sussex-Kent border, full directions with your booking.

For further information please contact:

Jenny Martin, WoodNet
01580 879552
jenny@woodnet.org.uk
www.woodnet.org.uk

BACKGROUND TO THE WEC

WEC Phase II: eight timber framed workshops under construction using environmentally sustainable building methods, laminated local timbers, innovative green timber frame and sweet chestnut cladding.

Designed with the combined skills and experiences of the project team including The Architecture Ensemble (Steve Johnson), Buro Happold engineers, The Green Oak Carpentry Company and Inwood Developments The workshops will be framed and clad in Douglas Fir from SE England.

WEC Phase I: Arising out of an architectural competition, the sweet chestnut gridshell building, completed in 2002, demonstrates the use of local wood in contemporary timber design by utilising low grade coppiced timbers. For more information about the Woodland Enterprise Centre, a PDF about this event + photos go to: www.woodnet.org.uk/wec