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FPS
The deadline for hotel reservations for the 2019 Bio Fiber-Polymer Composites Symposium is this coming Monday, Aug. 5. The Symposium, scheduled for Sept. 3-6, in Madison, Wisconsin, 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. With a dynamic trio of keynote speakers, ample networking opportunities and the latest advances and future opportunities for fiber-polymer composites.
Visit www.woodcomposites.org to register or book your hotel today! The early bird registration deadline is Tuesday, Aug. 20.
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FPS
The premier wood adhesives conference is coming to Portland, Oregon in September 2020. The organizing committee is looking for people with passion and perspective interested in organizing symposia. This is your chance to ensure that the topic you think is important gets covered thoroughly. The deadline to submit technical symposia proposals is Monday, Aug. 5.
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FPS
The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDTE) of Wood Symposium will be held in Freiburg, Germany, Tuesday through Friday, Sept. 24-27.
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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Forest2Market
In its third estimate of 1Q2019 gross domestic product (GDP), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) nudged the growth rate of the U.S. economy to a seasonally adjusted and annualized rate (SAAR) of +3.12% (+3.1% expected), up 0.06 percentage point (PP) from the second estimate ("1Qv2") and +0.95PP from 4Q2018.
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WLNS-TV
Michigan State University's future STEM Teaching and Learning Facility will be the first of its kind in Michigan.
The $100 million facility is being constructed using wood, rather than concrete and steel, for its structure.
The mass timber framing style uses large solid or engineered wood and is being constructed using glue-laminated wooden columns.
The building will also use a product called cross-laminated timber for the floors and ceilings.
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Joint Center for Housing Studies
Growth in residential remodeling spending is expected to slow considerably by the middle of next year, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The LIRA projects that annual gains in homeowner expenditures for improvements and repairs will shrink from 6.3 percent in the current quarter to just 0.4 percent by the second quarter of 2020.
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Building Products
All timber fire doors which underwent fire-resistance testing by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) were found to have met required standards, exceeding the minimum 30-minute burn time requirement, with one door resisting flames for as long as 59 minutes when opening away from the furnace. This is in direct contrast to glass reinforced polymer foam filled fire doors — the type recovered from Grenfell tower, which initiated this investigation — three quarters of which failed MHCLG tests in results published earlier this year.
Canadian Biomass
The latest short-term energy outlook from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts energy provided by non-hydropower renewable sources in the U.S. will continue to increase in the remainder of 2019 and into 2020. Non-hydropower renewables, including biomass, provided 10% of electricity generation in the U.S. in 2018, with that proportion expected to rise to 11% in 2019 and 13% in 2020.
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Woodworking Network
The Canadian government is plans to invest more than $24 million to promote innovative wood products from sustainably managed forests to create jobs and economic opportunities for Canadians.
Canada's Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi announced a multi-year investment in six wood product associations based in British Columbia to help strengthen international demand for Canadian wood products.
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MassTimberReport.com
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.
The first-of-its-kind report is packed with fresh, accurate information valuable to all members of this growing industry.
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