Carpenter Oak & Woodland has undertaken timber-engineering projects all around the UK.

The best way to demonstrate the scope of our diverse timber-engineering work is to outline some of our successful projects.

Maggie’s Highland Care Centre – Inverness

With Glasgow firm Page & Park Architects, we worked on Maggie’s Highland Care Centre – a care centre in Inverness for those with cancer and their relatives. This unique contemporary design, based on the division of healthy cells in the human body, is constructed mainly in softwood, with steel connections and features a distinctive copper roof. The building won many awards, including The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Andrew Doolan Award the 2005 Wood Award – Structural.

Maggie’s Highland Care Centre in Inverness

Solar canopy – The Earth Centre, Doncaster

With Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects and Atelier One Engineers, we constructed the stunning solar canopy at the Earth Centre in Doncaster – Europe’s largest flat-foot photovoltaic installation. The canopy spans 1,300 square metres and contains 250 photovoltaic panels – which can generate 80,000 kilowatts of electricity per year. See a 3D panoramic view of the solar canopy.

The solar canopy at the Earth Centre, Doncaster

ECOSpace, Lauder College, Dunfermline

Working with architects RMJM and Muir Construction, we helped to build ECOSpace, a 1,600-square-metre teaching facility for students with physical and learning difficulties. The single-storey building was constructed using renewable sources and incorporates renewable energy systems. ECOSpace also features workshops which will train future craftspeople from across Scotland and help in the redevelopment of many of the lost skills of the more traditional crafts in construction.

September 11 Memorial, Grosvenor Square, London

Working with the Department of Culture and Media – and architects Carden and Godfrey – we helped to build the distinctive timber memorial to the UK’s September 11 victims. Members of the victims’ families were consulted throughout the design process. Each column was carved by Carpenter Oak & Woodland from a single trunk, on a lathe with a 12-foot lathe bed.

September 11 Memorial, Grosvenor Square, London

Warner House

With David Kirkland Associates, we built a unique, low-energy, four-bedroom home, Warner House, in Berkshire. The house forms a sweeping crescent design, to showcase the client’s own products – handmade bricks. The visually stunning house has many architecturally unusual features, including doubly curved timber upper storey, an elegant tapering brick chimney, an elliptical roof terrace and an abundance of external glazing.