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In Europe the “Chartera of Venice” was enacted on the 31st of May 1964. It is the international directive for the preservation of historic buildings and monuments. All countries in …
Year: 2018
Tags: wood construction
Authors:Wood processing industries have long been the strength of Finnish economy. Among them woodbased panel industry (WBP) has concentrated on birch plywood since early 1900’s and on softwood plywood and …
Year: 2018
Tags: wood-based panels
Authors:Growing urbanization provides new opportunities for building with wood and wood products value chains in residential, public, commercial and leisure building in Nordic countries. Multi-storey buildings with well-planned integration with …
Year: 2018
Tags: standards, wood construction
Authors:Wood bonding with adhesives is a vast industry and business, and the market of wood adhesives was some 2 million tons in 2015 (Anon., 2015). The current main stream of …
Year: 2018
Tags: adhesive, bonding, tensile strength, veneer
Authors:Laminated timber products (Gluelam and CLT), are increasingly used as structural building materials. The motivation is often based on the environmental performance of low carbon footprint in manufacturing and indoor …
Year: 2018
Tags: carbon footprint, cross-laminated timber (CLT), glulam glued laminated timber, wood construction
Authors:Moisture safety is as important for CLT envelopes as for any other building envelopes. For wood, mould growth is usually the first criteria for limiting moisture conditions that are too …
Year: 2018
Tags: cross-laminated timber (CLT), initial moisture content, surface mould growth
Authors:Nowadays, very popular in a variety of sustainability concepts and activities, which occupies an important place in waste recycling. Wood is cutting in the recycling process and the product is …
Year: 2018
Tags: hemp, recycling, textile waste
Authors:This research investigates the properties of the wood-plastic composites, which are made of polypropylene matrix and birch wood as a filler. Wood plastic composites have already been widely researched materials …
Year: 2018
Tags: birch (Betula pendula), false heartwood (FHW), mechanical properties, physical properties, wood plastic composites WPC
Authors:Wood plastic composites (WPC) have gained a relatively large share in the composite market. The environmental benefits and good properties of the materials make them attractive for variety of applications. …
Year: 2018
Tags: dimensional stability, maleic anhydride (MA), thermally modified wood, wood plastic composites WPC
Authors:There is increased interest in using biobased building materials from renewable resources along with greater demands on a more sustainable built environment. The value of by-products (or components) from processing …
Year: 2018
Tags: dimensional stability, thermally modified wood, wood plastic composites WPC
Authors:Kitchen furniture is the most cost-effective branch of all industries from the wood furniture manufacturing group (Ellefson et al. 2010). Only in the United States, homeowners remodel upwards of 10.2 …
Year: 2018
Tags: furniture, panels, particleboard, swelling
Authors:The use of timber has a large role to play in the mitigation of climate change and the reduction ofcarbon i n the atmosphere, indeed the growing and use of …
Year: 2018
Tags: circularity, climate change, decarbonization, lignin, wood composites
Authors:Wood was the third largest fraction of waste in Norway in 2016. 90% of wood wastes were directly recovered through energy and the 10% remaining were mainly sent to recycling. …
Year: 2018
Tags: cascading, waste wood
Authors:Sitka spruce will continue to be the main commercial species in the British Isles, but there are reasons to also consider wider planting of other species to better serve the …
Year: 2018
Tags: sawmills, spruce alternatives, wood species
Authors:Wood machining processes determine the final quality of the manufactured products. Surface roughness is one of the most frequently used parameters specifying the quality of the surface. The effect of …
Year: 2018
Tags: European beech, surface roughness, tool wear
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