Kenneth Leitch was awarded Best Timber-related Honours Dissertation Project for his work on timber to concrete dowel-type fasteners, Sylvia Makowska was named best student on the Properties & Use of Structural Timber module in the second year of the BSc Civil & Timber Engineering course and the Best Timber Design Project by a second-year Architectural Technology student went to David Ritchie.
“With increasing recognition of wood’s status as the only truly renewable construction material, it is vitally important that the timber engineers and specifiers of the future are given every encouragement to utilise wood and wood products,” said STTA president Andrew Newton.
The prizes were presented at the Napier University gaduation ceremony, with a fourth award to be awarded later this year for the Best Dissertation by a Timber Engineering or Timber Industry Management Masters student.
