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Forbes
Wood makes a great building material except for one thing — you can't see through it. If you want a window you have to rely on glass, which is expensive and also has a tendency to let in too much cold air. Though researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a way to chemically treat wood so that it not only becomes opaque — even completely transparent at times — but also stores and releases heat during the course of a day.
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FPS
PTF BPI (Process Technologies for the Forest & Biobased Products Industries) 2020 is dedicated to the exchange of information and ideas about research of process technologies, quality control and process improvement. Academic scholars will overview the latest research in forest and biobased materials, including nanotechnology and solid wood. Leading manufacturers will highlight advancements in chemical technologies, supplier audits, product innovation and continuous improvement.
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USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
This position is with the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), Wood Products Research (WPR) unit, and is located in Madison, Wisconsin. This position is located at an FPL, and the functions of which include utilization and other research related to the timber resources of the United States and the world.
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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."
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Wood Business
The latest data of U.S. new housing starts and of home sales for March 2019 is not encouraging. At a time of year when wood sales would normally be hot, this housing market softness is doing nothing to improve already dropping North America construction framing softwood lumber prices.
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Wood Resources International LLC
Over 22 million tons of wood pellets were shipped globally in 2018, up 21% from 2017. The US, Canada, Vietnam, Latvia and Russia, accounted for 69% of global exports in 2018, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review.
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Wildfire Today
The Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Victoria Christiansen, has issued a Letter of Intent for Wildland Fire for 2019. The "intent" is probably derived from the principle of "leader's intent" which should be included in a briefing for a fast-moving, dynamic situation so that subordinates can adapt plans and exercise initiative to accomplish the objective when unanticipated opportunities arise or when the original plan no longer suffices.
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USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
USDA Forest Service researchers have developed a tornado shelter made of wood that provides powerful protection at an affordable cost. With safety and security in mind, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) engineers designed the residential tornado shelter to resist the high wind pressure and debris impacts generated by high-wind events.
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Global News
A Vancouver developer is proposing a new 35 to 40 storey tower for the Broadway corridor, but the plan isn't for a typical high rise.
Bruce Langereis, president of Delta Land Corporation, is working with architect Peter Busby from Perkins + Will to design a mass timber building that could revolutionize the way developers build.
The tower would be mostly mass timber, likely with a concrete core. The building will use a fraction of the carbon needed to build something similar in steel.
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New Atlas
Wood is an established and versatile construction material, used to build everything from high-rises and airports to apartment buildings. It also, however, is not immune to catching fire. A new coating could help keep that from happening — and it's actually made from wood.
Developed by scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the solution incorporates nanocellulose — this material in turn consists of microscopic cellulose fibers obtained from wood pulp.
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