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The SIRT Project (Scottish Integrated Research in Timber) The partners in the SIRT Project are the Centre for Timber Engineering at Napier University, Edinburgh; the Northern Research Station of Forest Research, which is the research arm of the Forestry Commission; and ourselves. The project is funded by a Strategic Research Development Grant from SHEFC, and will commence in Spring 2004. Its aim is to bring together research in forestry, wood science and civil engineering to underpin the use of Sitka spruce, from existing Scottish forests, in the construction industry. The vision is to give Scotland an international presence in wood research and make it the world centre for research on Sitka spruce timber. Glasgow's role in realising this vision is to find out how the mechanical properties of spruce timber are related to its microstructure, from the molecular up to the cellular scale. We have a access to range of techniques, mainly spectroscopic, for examining polymer composition and polymer orientation in wood.

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