Dr. Karin Sandberg (RISE), Prof. Guillermo Íñiguez-González (UPM) and Dr. Daniel F. Llana (UPM) from the InFutUReWood project attended the ForestValue Final Conference that took place at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, Spain on the 28th and 29th of September...
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ForestValue Final Conference in Madrid
ForestValue Final Conference will take place in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid on the 28th and 29th of September 2022. This event will bring together Joint Call 2017 project coordinators and partners. Presentations and lively discussions with stakeholders from...
Project meeting in Madrid (online due to Covid-19)
Researchers and industrial partners will meet online from the 15th to the 16th of April to share their results and plan the next steps in the InFutUReWood project. Project meetings are biannual and this is the 5th meeting (Table 1). Table 1. InFutUReWood project...
Free webinar – Timber buildings: reuse and recycling for sustainability (20/10/2020)
This webinar explores the topic of the circular economy for wood used for construction.
Work Package 5 overview
The aim of this Work Package is to resolve the problem that current standards for building design, and timber product manufacture, require strength grading on a basis that is not compatible with reclaimed wood, and similarly varied new timber from less usual sources. The objective is for this new basis grading to be fully equivalent to that of new wood of the main commercial species.
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
5 questions for the UK
Dan Ridley-Ellis and Marlene Cramer from Edinburgh Napier University answered five questions about the use of timber in the UK. Below you can read the short answers, but if you are more interested in the details, read the full blogpost here. Q1) What is the proportion...
First results on properties of recovered wood
Issues concerning the reuse of timber members as structural elements in new constructions are relatively new and not well known. We hope to establish non-destructive methods that will estimate mechanical properties of reclaimed timber, to assess if the element meets...