WP5 articles
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...
