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FPS
FPS Northwest Section is bridging the gap between forest product academics, students, scientists and researchers with industry professionals during the "Future of Wood" Workshops and Mass Timber Tour, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 17 and 18, at the Portland Expo Center in Portland, Oregon. Co-located with the popular Timber Processing and Energy Expo, the event will allow individuals to meet and network with FPS members in the Northwest and learn about these critical areas:
- University Update and Future of the Workforce: A Panel Discussion of University Deans and Primary Faculty
- Advancements in Adhesives
- Current and Future NW Biomass Activities
- Half-Day Mass Timber Buildings Tour
- Evening Networking Event
Register here.
Tennessee Department of Agriculture
The south is renowned for producing some of the highest quality forest products in the world, but getting those products to market can be a challenge. The upcoming Southern Forest Products Export Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, offers solutions for businesses looking to grow. The conference will feature a world-class panel of experts discussing the challenges and opportunities of exporting forest products from inland states. United States Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Ted McKinney and Canadian Consul General Nadia Theodore are among the distinguished guest speakers who will address trade issues.
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Forest Business Network
Deadline for the call for speakers for the 2019 International Mass Timber Conference is Wednesday, Oct. 31. View the speaker submission form here and nominate your presentation today.
Treehugger
Waugh Thistleton's Watts Grove project raises some questions and they deliver some answers. We have to reduce the embodied energy of our buildings and building with wood is a great way to do this, as it stores carbon during construction instead of emitting it. Waugh Thistleton has designed and built some of the most ground-breaking, interesting and biggest projects out of wood, using cross-laminated timber (CLT).
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An unusual apartment high-rise could be coming to downtown Milwaukee — a 21-story tower that uses high-grade timber, not steel, for its frame.
The 201-unit development, named Ascent, would be one of the tallest such buildings in the world, according to its developer, New Land Enterprises LLP.
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Umass Lowell
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Maine and Florida-based Mainstream Engineering Corp. to develop renewable fuel additives made from "woody biomass" — particularly sawdust from sawmills.
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Woodworking Network
Worldwide trade of lumber inched up again in early 2018, hinting that this may be another record year, a new report from Wood Resources International indicates. Six of the 10 largest lumber-exporting countries in the world have increased their shipments in 2018, with exports from Russia, Germany, Ukraine and Austria increasing the most year over year.
Canada has seen the biggest decline year-over-year, with shipments in 2018 on pace to be the lowest in five years. Canadian shipments to China and the U.S. during the first half of the year were down 19 percent and 6 percent, respectively, over 2017.
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The New York Times
Destructive fires in the West dominated the news this summer, but for eons, fire has been not just an inevitable feature of the landscape, but essential to the forest's health and continuity. In the vast wilderness of the Pine Barrens, the forest regenerates so fast that scientists studying the physics of fire use it as a laboratory.
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California Economic Summit
California's forests, which represent some of the state's most beautiful and valuable landscapes, are in a state of crisis due to overgrown conditions and escalating wildfires.
These challenging conditions threaten not only rural communities where the state's forests are located, but also suburban and urban areas that find themselves in the direct line of catastrophic wildfires. In addition to threats to life and property, critical assets for all Californians are at stake, including water supplies, wildlife habitat, clean air and valued scenic and recreational amenities.
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Business Insider
All around the world, skyscrapers are increasingly featuring mass timber instead of steel or reinforced concrete. Architects praise timber structures, which use large, prefabricated wood pieces, for their resistance to fire and ability to sequester carbon. Skylines in US cities like Chicago may soon include wooden skyscrapers, and the state of Oregon recently legalized mass timber high-rises. In Toronto, Canada, Sidewalk Labs — which is affiliated with Google's parent company, Alphabet — is planning to build a high-tech neighborhood out of mass timber.
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