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FPS
The 2019 Bio Fiber-Polymer Composites Symposium provides a forum for experts from scientific, technical, and industrial communication to exchange and disseminate information on the latest advances and future opportunities for fiber-polymer composites. Presentations covering wood fibers, natural fibers and nanocellulose composites will be featured.
This premiere North American conference on wood plastic composites is hosted by FPS and the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory — the only federal laboratory dedicated to forest products research. Please plan to join us in beautiful Madison, WI for this informative event. The Symposium organizing committee invites papers, posters and exhibits from interested individuals and organizations.
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FPS
A team of leading experts has created the world’s first North American Mass Timber Report. Call it disruption in the world of building construction. Call it re-imagining how schools, apartment complexes and even taller buildings are designed and built. Indeed, support for using mass timber products in construction keeps building across the world...literally...as the building industry finds itself on a new frontier.
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“It’s the most comprehensive report on the N.A. mass timber supply chain. The first of its kind report is packed with fresh, accurate information valuable to all members of this growing industry including: Forestland Owners, Forest Product Manufactures, Mass Timber Manufactures, Architects and Engineers, Building Contractors and Building Developers. If you are in a position to promote, inspire and relay the benefits of Mass Timber to the greater society or to sell to developers investors or government agencies, this report will be your tool and guide to help in your effort. Our report provides an expert third party review (The Beck Group, Forest Business Network, Treesource, and Doug Fir Consulting) of each sector and dives deep into the depths of mass timbers and its upward potential. If you understand the trajectory like we have been able to quantify then our report solidifies that and provides a great compliment to your cause!" Charles Gale is owner of Doug Fir Consulting and serves as the West Region representative to the FPS Executive Board.
Mirage News
A highrise built out of timber, not steel? It's a solid idea according to QUT structural engineering researcher Dr. Craig Cowled, who’s embarked on a three-year project to work out the perfect way to build carbon-storing, timber-framed "plyscrapers." He's a big fan of the environmental credentials — and cost savings — of building tall buildings out of timber, rather than concrete and steel, and wants to boost this fledgling segment of the construction industry.
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EIT Climate-KIC
In a new report, 25 examples of using wood in construction showcase that reducing the carbon footprint of our buildings is not only possible, but that it results in remarkable, healthy living environments. The cases demonstrate how the Nordic countries are taking important steps to reduce carbon emissions from construction and turn an industry of finite resources into one of renewables.
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Forisk Consulting
Recently, the idea of mass timber to build large structures resurfaced in North America thanks to a new material design in the form of an engineered wood product, cross laminated timber (CLT). The use of large timbers and engineered wood products to build sizeable structures in North America is not new.
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Curbed
Most bridges are defined by support structures like columns, cables and beams, but this pedestrian bridge defies all technical expectations. The curving arch of the 39-foot “Bending Bridges” project takes care of both the architectural and structural needs of the bridge thanks to some truly clever engineering.
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Flathead Beacon
The U.S. timber industry scored a win on April 9 in the decades-long battle with Canada over softwood lumber, after the World Trade Organization ruled in its favor.
On April 9, the WTO decided that the United States Department of Commerce had done the correct calculations when it determined anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber.
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Education Drive
The University of Idaho has one architectural marvel on its campus with the "Kibbie Dome," a sports arena that dates to the 1970s and whose inside has been likened to a tin can cut in half, thanks to its arched roof of wood-and-steel trusses. Now it's gunning for another, right next door. The proposed 4,200-seat Idaho Central Credit Union Arena will have a structure that consists primarily of wood, using innovative construction technology that is gradually finding its way into new campus buildings across the U.S.
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Inhabitat
In March 2019, the Mjösa Tower became the tallest wooden building in the world at 18 floors (for a total of 85.4 meters tall), followed closely by the HoHo Wien building in Austria (84 meters) and the Peri-Săpânţa Monastery in Romania (75 meters). Because it was made in part with Kerto LVL wood that is both sustainable and green, the building is eco-friendly as well.
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Forbes
Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are methods of building that create a frame that is self-sustaining and carries the weight of the house. The main difference in the two types of construction is the method of joining the parts.
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