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The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDTE) of Wood Symposium will be held in Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 24-27, 2019.
This symposium will be hosted by the ForestResearch Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA) and is co-sponsored by the USDAForest Service ProductsLaboratory (FPL), the ForestProducts Society (FPS) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). The conference will be held at Katholische Akademie Freiburg, which is situated close to the city center of Freiburg.
This Symposium is a forum for those involved in nondestructive testing and evaluation of wood, wood-based products and structures. It will bring together the international nondestructive testing and evaluation research community, users of various nondestructive testing technologies, equipment development and manufacturing professionals, representatives from various government agencies, and other groups to share research findings and new nondestructive testing products and technologies.
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FPS
Registration is ongoing for the 2019 Bio Fiber-Polymer Composites Symposium, which will take place Sept. 4 and 5, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin. The 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.
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FPS
The 12th International Conference on Wood Adhesives will be held Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 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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Official Smartphone Blog
Taller, greener, hairier? The buildings of the future could be more than a mile high, made out of plywood or covered in algae.
Building taller, given rising population density in cities, has been the case for New York, London, the Middle East and so many other cities.
When there's not enough room on the ground, the only way is up. By 2050, a study predicted, there is a 9% chance the world's tallest building will be a mile high.
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The Beck Group
Mass timber use in North American building construction is growing exponentially. To help further that growth, an expert team developed a mass timber business intelligence report that you can use to sell your project and to help manage project risk at all levels of the supply chain. "North American Mass Timber: State of the Industry 2019" addresses a specific supply chain segment including designers and specifiers, building construction, mass timber manufacturing, mass timber raw materials (lumber and veneer), forest conditions and building occupants.
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Real Estate Weekly
A design concept for a new Uber Air Skyport imagined by Pickard Chilton and Arup was showcased at Uber's third Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C., where Uber revealed new designs for its future Skyports.
The architecture studio best known for its corporate headquarters designs and global design and consulting firm focused on Skyports for the near future, showcasing concepts for both parking structure retrofits as well as new bespoke facilities.
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Calaveras Enterprise
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service is proposing a radical overhaul on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations to expedite various forest management activities. The move is purportedly being made to address critical forest health needs in a timely manner amid the growing threat of catastrophic wildfires across the West.
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Freres Lumber
Engineered wood products have received a lot of attention lately. Being able to take a log, cut it, grade the individual pieces, then glue it up in a particular manner is what makes wood competitive with steel and concrete. When you consider all the other benefits wood offers, it's no wonder there's so much hype.
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Curbed
Treehouses are inherently playful, but this new design from Studio Precht is a particularly magical take on the already whimsical medium. Designed for tiny home company Baumbau, the Bert looks like a periscope peeking through the forest. The timber concept is built around circular modules that connect together to create a tube-like structure. The prefab pieces are fabricated offsite and can be combined and arranged into different configurations, from compact tiny homes to larger buildings that branch upwards and outwards.
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The Blue Mountain Eagle
Progress is being made on construction of a $15.5 million torrefaction plant at the Malheur Lumber Co. mill in John Day, Oregon. The plant could be running by September, Matt Krumenauer, vice president of special projects for the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, told the Eagle.
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Canadian Biomass
People, businesses and communities across Canada looking for cheaper, more reliable and environmentally friendly heating options should be taking a closer look at wood fuel, says a national supplier of wood heating systems.
Biothermic, an Ontario-based company with two locations supplying modern wood heating systems across Canada, has built Ontario's first wood fuel facility for processing and storing wood chips — a major step forward in helping make low-carbon, low-cost energy a reality in Canada.
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Summit Daily
The Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak from 1996 to 2014 affected 3.4 million acres of forestland across Colorado, turning forests all over central and northern Colorado into veritable tree graveyards in the years since.
At the plague's peak in 2007, half the trees in Summit County turned a rusty, muddy red that blazed dimly across the hills and valleys. Given a lack of research as to how the visual impact of insect infestations affect the human psyche, researchers sought to understand how people perceive risk of fire, economic and other impacts as the forest colors change.
That's why in 2007, researchers conducted a study in nine mountain communities that formed Ground Zero of the state's beetle outbreak — Breckenridge, Dillon, Frisco, Silverthorne, Granby, Kremmling, Steamboat Springs, Vail and Walden — to see how the visual impact of the devastation influenced community perceptions of fire risk and forest management.
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