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The International Convention organizing committee invites papers, posters, and equipment demonstrations (exhibits) from interested individuals and organizations. Deadline for submissions is Friday, March 22.
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FPS
Nominations are now open for the Fred W. Gottschalk Memorial Award, the Wood Awards and the Wood Engineering Achievement Award. Nominations may be made online here. The call for nominations will close on Monday, April 1, and winners will be notified in mid-April.
Nominations are sought for the prestigious Fred W. Gottschalk Memorial Award, which recognizes and honors exceptional service to the Forest Products Society by an individual member. Candidates for the Gottschalk award must have been active members of FPS for a minimum of 10 years. Most importantly, candidates must have a long history of active service to the Society and a genuine desire and ability to further the objectives of the Society.
The FPS Wood Award recognizes the most outstanding graduate student research in the field of wood and wood products. Professors in the field are encouraged to nominate students who are pursuing original research on harvesting and forest operations, product development and manufacture, fundamental properties, end-use applications, distribution and marketing, and other topics contributing the mission of the Society.
This year’s Wood Engineering Achievement Award is focused on Lifetime Achievement and is eligible to individuals for their cumulative contribution to the discipline of wood engineering. Honorees demonstrate significant and measurable impact in the field and tangible impact in the marketplace.
FPS
The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium will take place Sept. 24-27, 2019, in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The event will be hosted by the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg and co-sponsored by the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Products Society and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations D5.01.09 unit "Non-Destructive Evaluation of Wood and Wood-Based Materials."
Registration opens Monday, April 1. Click here for additional information.
FPS
The 12th International Conference on Wood Adhesives will be held Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2020 at the Portland Hilton Downtown hotel in Portland, Oregon. This is one year earlier than originally planned, based on the strong interest and activity in bio-based adhesives. The International Conference on Wood Adhesives is the premier technical conference on advances in adhesion of wood and biomass. Industry representatives were the majority of the 241 attendees in 2017, evenly split between the US and the rest of the world.
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Korean Society of Wood Science and Technology
The Korean Society of Wood Science and Technology will hold BIOCOMP2020: The 15th Pacific Rim Bio-Based Composite Symposium from Oct. 14-17, 2020, in Korea.
A video of the BIOCOMP2018: The 14th Pacific Rim Bio-Based Composite Symposium can be viewed here.
Mainebiz`
A new report concludes that Maine faces a shortage of loggers and log truckers that will get worse — if wage growth does not occur — and could hinder the growth of the $8.5 billion forest products industry in the state.
The employment availability and wage analysis prepared by the Maine Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Southern Maine found wages for logging equipment operators and log truckers are lower than those for comparable jobs in competing industries in the state.
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Engineering News-Record
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has dubbed the 85.4-meter Mjøstårnet, in Brumunddal, Norway, as the world's tallest timber building.
At the same time, the group amended the CTBUH height criteria — the official guidelines to measure and rank building height — to recognize timber as a structural material. The update was prompted by the recent uptick of tall timber buildings currently under construction or in planning around the world, and the interest of involved stakeholders and the general public in defining what truly constitutes a "timber" structural system, says CTBUH.
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Los Alamos Daily Post
The U.S. Forest Service has announced that it is signing the Record of Decision for the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis Project on March 16.
The project entails widespread old-growth clearcutting on the largest island in our nation’s largest forest. In 2016, the USFS committed to a transition out of old-growth logging and away from uneconomical and destructive timber sales like this proposal.
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College of the Atlantic
The school ranked by The Princeton Review as the No. 1 green college in the U.S. has announced plans for a new campus center that will be built to the German Passivhaus standard, a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building which reduces its overall ecological footprint.
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BusinessNorth
Minnesota is positioned well to take advantage of a new manufacturing method utilizing timber, according to a recently completed study titled "The Economic Feasibility of Mass Timber Manufacturing."
The manufacturing method was first developed in Europe and incorporates cross-laminated timber (CLT) in a wood panel system. They are made up of several layers of dimension lumber stacked in alternating directions, bonded with structural adhesives and pressed to form a solid, rectangular panel. Their strength, dimensional stability and rigidity allow them to be prefabricated and used in multilevel construction not typically suitable for wood.
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The Bismarck Tribune
Minnesota is fertile ground to plant a new kind of timber company, according to a study whose backers hope to lure such a manufacturer to the state.
Mass timber, a type of building material big in Europe and gaining in popularity for commercial projects in the U.S., could bring 50 good-paying jobs, more business and stability for sawmills and access to greener construction supplies for the region, according to the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Minnesota Duluth, which is releasing its study Monday.
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