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Confor organizes forestry and timber conference

 Monday, July 10, 2017

vonforThe opportunity for Scottish forestry to provide more low-carbon housing is the central theme for the latest in Confor’s popular policy conferences in Scotland.

 

Forestry in Scotland: From Trees to Timber Homes will include a range of businesses, industry experts and a keynote address from Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy, Fergus Ewing, as well as a political panel.

 

The conference, to be held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in George Street, on Wednesday September 27, is sponsored by Wood for Good.
 
Christiane Lellig, Campaign Director of Wood for Good, will lead the second session of the event, which focuses on the practical opportunities of building with Scottish timber. Neil Sutherland of Makar Homes will also speak during this session.

 

This will be preceded by a session setting the context for the event, with Fergus Ewing followed by speakers including Confor CEO Stuart Goodall and Robert Hairstans of Edinburgh Napier University.

 

The event will end with a political panel, with confirmed participants already including Peter Chapman MSP (Conservative), Rhoda Grant MSP (Labour) and Mike Rumbles MSP (Lib Dem).

 

Stuart Goodall, Confor CEO, said: “Scotland has an ambition to use more wood in buildings and to expand its forestry sector. This conference pulls those strands together, exploring how we can lock up carbon and create attractive, high quality buildings all at a time when governments are thinking about the future of rural areas, post-Brexit”

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