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FPS
Mark your calendars to register for the 74th Annual International Conference beginning Friday, Feb. 7. The IC2020 will be held June 22-25 at the Hyatt Regency Portland in Portland, Oregon.
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FPS
Abstracts submissions are now open for the 6th Biennial International Conference for Process Technologies for the Forest & Biobased Products Industries. PTF BPI 2020 will be hosted in St. Simons Island, Georgia, from Nov. 9-11.
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FPS
We want YOU to present at the International Conference on Wood Adhesives! The premier wood adhesives conference is coming to Portland, Oregon, in September, and ICWA is now accepting abstract submissions through Friday, Feb. 28.
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The Architect's Newspaper
Every so often, the field of architecture is presented with what is hailed as the next "miracle building material." Concrete enabled the expansion of the Roman Empire, steel densified cities to previously unthinkable heights, and plastic reconstituted the architectural interior and the building economy along with it.
But it would be reasonable to question why and how, in the 21st century, timber was accorded a miracle status on the tail end of a timeline several millennia long.
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Biomass Magazine
A new report released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has determined California can achieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045 at modest cost using technology that is already demonstrated and mature, including carbon capture from waste biomass utilization.
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ScienceAlert
The old well doesn't look like much — a wooden crate-like object, dilapidated, crumbling a little. But according to new research, it's really special. A tree-ring dating technique has revealed that the oak wood used to make it was cut around 7,275 years ago.
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Biomass Magazine
The 13th Annual International Biomass Conference & Expo drew nearly 900 industry stakeholders to Nashville, Tennessee, where, following an awards ceremony, a roundtable discussion with biomass association leaders covered topics including the state of the industry, tax and renewable energy policies, carbon markets, politics, and the message those in the biomass sector should be espousing to encourage more public support.
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Building Design + Construction
Anyone who doubts that mass timber is mainstreaming into commercial, institutional and multifamily construction should direct their gaze toward Arkansas. That's where Walmart, the world's largest retailer, was instrumental in luring Structurlam, one of the largest mass timber producers in North America, to open its first U.S. plant in a former Nucor steel factory in Conway, Arkansas. One-third of the mass timber that Structurlam produces at the 288,000-sf Conway plant — which opens in mid-2021 and will use Arkansas-grown trees to make cross-laminated timber (CLT) components — is earmarked for Walmart, which already has committed to 1.1 million cubic feet of mass timber for its new corporate headquarters in Bentonville.
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Penn State University
Weighing in on a debate that has raged for decades, Penn State researchers, after conducting a series of ultra-detailed comparisons, have declared that shipping pallets made of wood are slightly more environmentally friendly and sustainable than those made of plastic.
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