News
1st August 2023
Community Creations: Timber Kid, the aspiring young wood-worker
Brodie has been building dens and using woodworking tools since he was aged 3. Over 10 years later and he’s now building tables, storage units and even event props, all from reclaimed wood. It sounds like Timber Kid has started his furniture making career early!
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22nd March 2023
Helping to create a restorative space in GCU’s Library
With a goal to improve health and wellbeing among staff and students, we were very excited to assist in bringing the Relax & Renew Space to life.
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5th October 2022
The Glasgow Wood Photo Challenge
The #glasgowwoodphotochallenge continues! We're aiming to encourage the community to build and share their amazing creations with us with the hope of motivating and inspiring each other. And if you're not a maker, we still welcome photos of you with your Glasgow Wood purchases! Ends 27th October at 5pm.
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1st July 2022
Wood Collections: from COP26 exhibition stands to potato planters at Hillhead High School
Take a look at the full journey of some raised bed planters and wood collections made from COP26, as the students at Hillhead High School transform them into potato planters.
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28th April 2022
Waste: the Seventh Natural Resource
Waste generation has increased massively around the world in recent decades, and there are no signs of it slowing down. By 2050, worldwide municipal solid waste generation is expected to have increased by roughly 70% to 3.4 billion metric tons. It's also estimated that annually less than 30% is recycled. Can we turn this around and begin to use more of our precious waste?
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25th February 2022
Community Creations: Kath’s Flooring Restoration and our Wood Collections service explained
Kath visited us last September on recommendation from a neighbour. Having built a new office/studio space in her garden, she was in need of a more affordable and environmentally friendly solution to purchasing brand new flooring. Luckily we had something which had recently been dropped into our timber yard which did the job...
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7th December 2021
Community Creations: Mohammed’s Reclaimed Timber House
Made from approximately 60-70% reclaimed timber, Mohammad has been sourcing much of the wood he needed to build his house from our timber yard. Take a look at his progress so far.
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25th August 2021
Prototyping a creative solution to plastic waste
A few members of the team at Glasgow Wood have been working on some very unique prototypes recently. These pieces recycle some of the vast quantities of plastic strapping which come through our workshop, helping to reduce our waste even more.
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