Company Magazine - Vision

VISION

Vincent Timber’s Vision magazine is your eye into all that goes on at Vincent Timber, including our mill.

Dive into our business values, our facility, our favourite projects and our latest headlines.

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In addition to the timber yard, where most of the arrivals were by canal or railway, there was also an extensive stable of horses...

Vincent Timber are on a journey to Net Zero. For the last few years, we have been making changes big and small to reduce our carbon output.

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We have a range of saws, drills, cross-cutting and profile cutting machinery in our onsite mill to make your designs bespoke to you.

Browse through some of our favourite projects from the humble garden room to our unforgettable grand designs.

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Our diverse product range features two exciting collections. Heritage is full of character whilst Elements has been modified for strength.

We are delighted to have won our second consecutive Façade Award for the Best Use of Timber Clad System.

History

Our Facility

Collections

Sustainability

Projects

Award Winning

100 Year HISTORY

In the words of the late John Vincent

W.J.Vincent started in 1923 when my grandfather, W.J.Vincent Snr., known as "The Governor" bought at auction, the premises of Fairbanks Timber Merchant at 473 Bristol Road, Selly Oak. Until then, he had been a director of Jones Manley & Co. Limited.

Before that, he had been its foreman, then manager when the hours of work were 6am until 6pm, 6 days per week.

In addition to the timber yard, where most of the arrivals were by canal or railway, there was also an extensive stable of horses to look after and feed. It was not unusual for a man to lead, mainly on foot, a drawn load of timber to Redditch and back in one day.

After my grandfather started on his own, my father soon joined him upon leaving school.

During the war years we machined timber for Mulliners Ltd for military vehicles, amongst many other Government requirements. Following this, we continued to hold part of the national stock and supplied large quantities of whitewood. It was deep cut on our own two modern Robinson bandsaws to very thin sections for the manufacture of packing cases for the export of Cadbury's chocolate to the Middle East.

We also used to supply loads each day of Abura to Chloride Alcad in Redditch, to produce battery cases. I recall the sawing created so much dust that we used to issue bottles of milk to our sawyers.

Today Core Values Dealing in High Quality Timber We supply the highest quality timber products including cladding, shingles, louvres, decking, lorry beds or any other use for timber you can imagine.

Respecting Our Heritage As a family business we treat everyone with the same respect we would our own family. This is partly why we have a team with so much experience. We firmly believe that looking after our people is what makes us so successful as a business.

Our customers include selfbuilders, market leading installers, contractors, some of the largest architect practises in the country and those from the vehicle body industry. They understand that timber is truly our passion and they return to us time and time again.

Protecting the Future World Read more about this overleaf.

We treat everyone with the same respect we would our own family.

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"The highest quality timber products."

SUSTAINABILITY Vincent Timber are on a journey to Net Zero. For the last few years, we have been making changes big and small to reduce the carbon output at our facility and in turn, the production of our timber.

We are exceptionally proud to say that we are now delivering your timber products with 50% less carbon thanks to these changes.

A little about what we have implemented so far: Efficient lighting ULEZ compliant lorries Electric side-loaders Biomass heating from onsite waste Bike-to-work scheme Onsite fuelling

Co2 Targets

Our most recent innovation was the replacement of our extraction system.

We striped out the old, unsustainable extraction for an eco-friendly air plants system.

This change has reduced our energy usage by 112,608KWh per hour. As a reference, cooking in an oven for 30 minutes uses 2,000 watts. It also means improved air quality for staff, contributing to the wellbeing of our people and planet.

Responsible Forestry Vincent Timber are at the fore-front of the campaign to protect the environment. We are only the 2nd company in the UK to be awarded Chain of Custody for CSA and SFI to cover Western Red Cedar. Chain of Custody refers to the ability to track wood from the time it leaves the forest through the processing and marketing channels to the final consumer. This means we can verify that a certified product genuinely comes from a certified source. All our timber is responsibly and sustainably sourced, managed by PEFC and FSC.

Adding Extra JOINERY Our facility affords a wide range of joinery processes. These include laminated sections, CNC machining and curved timber options as well as mitre cutting, slotting and drilling.

FINISHES Unless a specific finish is chosen, your timber would have our ‘machined finish’. However, we also offer, sanded, wire brushed / groomed, textured / combed or re-sawn finishes.

FIXINGS Don’t forget to order your corners, trims and fixings from us, too. We can colour match corners and trims if you’re choosing Cape Cod.

COLOUR MATCH CORNERS AND TRIMS WITH CAPE COD

FACILITY We work from a 2.5 acre site in Birmingham. Plus, we’ve recently grown, purchasing the site next door.

Our facility is where the magic happens. We have a range of saws, drills, cross-cutting and profile cutting machinery in the mill to make your designs bespoke to you.

We work on our facility and processes continuously to ensure we are more efficient and always improving our product/service.

BUILDING BEAUTIFUL

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Projects Browse through some of our favourite projects from the humble garden room to our grand designs.

BLACK & WHITE BUILDING The Black & White Building, designed by London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects for The Office Group, is the tallest mass-timber office building in London, and it features Vincent Timber's thermally modified tulipwood louvres on its façade.

The facades' striking, vertical timber louvres provide a second skin to the building, helping to protect the structure from solar radiation, conserve energy and optimise the flow of natural light whilst drawing heat into the workspace.

Digital analysis of the environment, particularly the movement and impact of the sun against the facade, determined the layout and form of the louvres to ensure optimum performance.

The timber fins change in depth as they ascend the building, allowing them to manipulate the sun to the building's benefit and reducing its carbon footprint.

Innovative Totally Timber

The 4,480-square-metre structure is the 1st of its kind, being made solely from timber past its foundation. It was precision-engineered to be slotted together from prefabricated components.

Its not just the structure and façade, either. Oak setts cover the floor, the furniture is made from a mixture of ash, walnut and cork, whilst the walls are spruce and the columns are beech.

Let’s grab a coffee and talk timber. sales@vincenttimber.co.uk

Brand ‘We’re committed to offering ethically purchased and responsibly produced, sustainable products of the highest quality.’

Community ‘We take pride in conducting business responsibly and supporting communities where we do business, from bean to cup.’

ALIGNED VALUES Expected to achieve BREEAM Excellent status for sustainability, there is a real focus on environmental practices throughout this build.

As an eco-conscious brand, Starbucks' responsibilities extend past sourcing their beans, to the environments in which they serve them in.

All of Vincent Timber's wood products are sourced from responsible forests, certified by PEFC for their sustainability. We also select partnerships within the industry such as Accoya whose materials are also kind to the environment.

CHOOSING ACCOYA WOOD Accoya out-performs even the most durable tropical hardwood cladding.

Accoya has world-leading sustainability credentials.

Resistant to rotting, Accoya cladding is likely to stay free of any visible distortion over its lifetime.

Internal Cladding

LONDON BRIDGE Designed by Grimshaw Architects, this striking £400m redevelopment has one very important visual focus. Vincent Timber supplied and machined over 7,000m of beautiful Western Red Cedar to create these phenomenal Class A and B acoustic timber panels for the station ceiling.

Not only is the timber visually stunning but practical and intentional, too. The panels help to absorb not only the ambient sound of passengers through the station but the structural reverberation produced by the 18 trains that pass through the build every hour.

In such a high traffic public space, increased safety is always a factor. The timber was therefore fire treated to Euro-class B, but what’s more impressive is the spring loaded dampener top-hangers and bomb blast safety tethering integrated into the ceiling design to provide upward blast protection in the event of a terrorist situation.

The open configurable system allows lighting via a handy integrated trough and is fully demountable increasing the sustainability of the whole design.

Visual Focus Over 7,000 square metres of Western Red Cedar panels, in three distinct patterns, made up a major part of the £400m redevelopment of London Bridge Station.

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"Quality has always been at the heart of practices at Vincent Timber."

COLLECTIONS Elements

The history, traditions, practices, etc. of a particular country, company etc. that exist from the past and continue to be important.

The elements refers to the four substances earth, air, fire, and water.

Quality has always been at the heart of practices at Vincent Timber and that integrity is part of our heritage, continuing to be important to this day.

The timber is thermally modified using only natural methods utilizing heat and steam. No chemicals are used. The result creates increased stability and durability.

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Our Heritage Collection features species that are common in the UK. They present a rustic, traditional façade creating a build that feels steeped in character and charm, just like traditional British streets.

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After going through the environmentallyfriendly thermal modification process, the timber darkens in colour. It is now also more stable in changing humidity and its thermal insulation properties are improved.

Oakley Grove School Using beautiful British Larch from our Heritage Collection.

Award WINNING

In 2024 Vincent Timber won their second Façade Award for Best Use of Timber Clad System with Unusual Rigging’s HQ alongside 1Eighty Roofing Solutions.

The new HQ is a 100% sustainable, ecologically sound site. It is the 1st build in the world to replace plasterboard with the eco-friendly, carbon sequestering product, breather board. Naturally, they also chose one of the most sustainable timbers to create the beautiful façade, Vincent’s Accoya.

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A fitting HQ

Unusual Rigging ’s Managing Director has a passion for sustainability and for more than a decade has been working to align the business with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

This is a company used to taking on big projects in theatre, film and sporting events.

They’ve covered the World Cup and the Olympics, but now they have one of their own.

The Swan School 2023 In 2023 Vincent Timber were thrilled to have won Best Use of Timber Clad System for the Swan School alongside Gailiford Try and Middlesex Facades. The judges commented on the design, 'The intent is to harmonise with the natural surroundings. This is where the larch comes into play.

There is a mixture of tongue and groove, timber fins, hit and miss, and a swan logo. All of these features are formed from larch.

The particular details behind the cladding are intricate and thoughtful.'

Eco-focused The school in Oxfordshire chose our timber to keep inline with its environmentally friendly design the sports hall is served via a heat pump, coupled with passive ventilation wind catchers, creating a low energy facility.

Follow our social media pages for more on each of the projects and to keep up with any future awards.

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