Daniel F. Llana, Marina de Arana-Fernández, Marina Arce-Blanco, Ignacio Bobadilla, Miguel Esteban, Francisco Arriaga and Guillermo Íñiguez-González, from the School of Forest Engineering and Natural Resources - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), answered five...
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Five questions for Germany
Michael Risse and Raphaela Ivanica from the Technical University of Munich (Wood Research Munich) answered five questions about timber construction, building documentation and the end-of-life phase of buildings in Germany.
Five questions for Finland
Mark Hughes and Bahareh Nasiri from Aalto University answered five questions about the use, classification, and recycling of timber in Finland. They also considered demolition of different building types in Finland.
Project meeting in NUI Galway postponed
Due to COVID-19, the project meeting in Galway has been postponed sine die. Some meeting talks will be replaced by online presentations, and some pieces of information will be published on website
A thesis on Design that Enables the Reuse of Timber Constructions
At RISE Wood Building Technology in Skellefteå we got a visit from Ida and Sara. For their dissertation they chose the same topic as our project. Coincidence!
Five Questions for Ireland
Annette M. Harte and Daniel F. Llana from the National University of Ireland Galway and Elizabeth Shotton and St John Walsh from the University College Dublin answered five questions about the use and recycle of timber in Ireland. Cover photo: Aughnanure castle,...
Survey of wood demolition waste contamination in UK
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) has made an urgent appeal for waste wood samples from the demolition of pre-2007 buildings. They are trying to avoid what they see as a potential crisis
Trada Better Building Conference
Trada Better Building Conference, 27 November 2019Royal Geographical Society, London As part of the research for the inFutureWood project, we recently attended TRADA’s ’Better Timber Buildings Conference’ on 27 November 2019 at the Royal Geographical Society,...
Reused wooden structure nominated at the arhitectural competition “Swedish Wood Award 2020”
The "Kayak House" is a reused wooden structure with several exposures, situated now in Lisö, south of Stockholm. The initial pavillion building has been exhibited at several places in Europe to promote the use of wood as an industrial and sustainable building...
Results from the CaReWood project
CaReWood (Cascade Recovered Wood) is an European project that had the aim to introduce an upgrading concept for recovered solid timber as a source of clean and reliable secondary wooden product