Exterior-use timber in multi-storey buildings requires durable fire-retardancy and biological resistance due to its exposure to environmental conditions involving direct water contact. Limited research has been demonstrated regarding whether a …
Wood is a building material with outstanding cascading potential. Solid wood represents the highest value product in the cascade which at the end of its service life can be converted …
In the last two decades, timber construction has experienced a resurgence further supporting the wood products industry and innovation in the sector. This is in part due to ambitious policies …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
