The Alliance is at Manchester Central on 20–21 October, stand 438, with a working demonstration of the OSKOP framework, fire test data and project evidence for anyone specifying school buildings

The government's new procurement rules treat jobs and net zero as a trade-off. OSKOP's open platform for public buildings proves they don't have to be, delivering lower embodied carbon through UK factories that keep spend and employment local.

Closed-panel timber is already the best answer for UK schools on cost, carbon and speed. So why does OSKOP publish its testing for anyone to use? Paul Inch, Zubin Masters and Claire Barton make the case at the Structural Timber Conference on 7 October.