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Planning & Building Control Today
The acute demand for quick, sustainable and high quality solutions to the current shortfall in housing stock has resulted in offsite timber construction becoming a key building method to meet the demand for affordable housing. This readily available modern method of construction (MMC) has been adopted by many social housing providers to deliver quick, sustainable and energy efficient homes. The low carbon offsite timber construction method reduces ongoing energy costs for tenants. It also keeps maintenance and whole-life costs to a minimum, which is crucial for social housing providers.
Developers, architects and engineers now recognize the positive impact of material selection, building details and specification on energy performance and build quality, and are keen to promote best practice.
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FPS
The premier technical conference on advances in adhesion of wood and biomass takes place next week, Oct. 25-27, in Atlanta. Since 1980, the conference has attracted an international audience including businesses that make and use adhesives, their suppliers and researchers and students. Your sponsorship will support this long-lived and importance conference, unique in its audience and content.
Whether you are an adhesive supplier or user or user of the downstream product — from industry, academia, government or NGO — this conference provides a unique opportunity. Don't wait another four years. If your business depends on having solid technical knowledge about glued wood products, this meeting is for you. We recruit the best technical thinking in the field of wood adhesives so you get the most value for your time invested and will have access to the proceedings. Have a look at the full program or register online.
The Engineer
Wood is the oldest of construction materials. It's elemental, and humankind's relationship with it runs deep, but in a very literal sense, we’ve been burnt by it one too many times. After the Great Fire of London wiped out 80 percent of the city, the London Building Act of 1667 asserted all houses were to be built in brick or stone. Since then, steel, concrete and glass have all come to dominate our city skylines, but timber is set to make an unlikely return.
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Woodworking Network
Engineers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering say they've found a solution to the rising global challenge of water scarcity: solar steam generation devices. Easily accessible, the engineers say the devices are efficient, environmentally friendly, biodegradable, and extremely low-cost.
Inspired by the process by which water is carried through trees from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, the UMD research team created several new ways in which water can be transported through wood, purifying it for safe use. Energy from the sun and a block of wood smaller than an adult's hand are the only components needed to heat water to its steaming point in these devices.
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Biomass Magazine
Bill Bell, executive director of the Maine Pellet Fuels Association, writes: "During these 'slack' times, the most encouraging development affecting Maine's four heating pellet manufacturers may be the solidarity being extended by our state's much larger forest products industry. This appears to mirror the increased support being provided by national forestry organizations for the pellet industry's BTU Act, now pending in Congress."
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Innovative Natural Resource Solutions LLC via Biomass Magazine
A revised draft of the proposed national wood chip heating fuel technical quality standard for the U.S. is now open for stakeholder feedback and comment. The standard development project is coordinated by the Biomass Energy Resource Center, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council and Innovative Natural Resource Solutions LLC. Funding for the project has been provided by the USDA Forest Service.
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Tech Wire Asia
Construction is in our genetics, and making has always been a very labor-intensive business. It's only relevantly recently (since the emergence of mechanization) that construction has become easier, quicker and cheaper. The latest phase of mechanization, the application of technology, is no different. In this traditionally labor-intensive field, tech is playing a part in revolutionizing the way we think about the built spaces we construct around us.
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Canadian Biomass
The Wood Pellet Association of Canada's Safety Committee in co-operation with WorkSafeBC and BC Forest Safety Council are hosting a workshop on process hazard analysis. WPAC and WorkSafeBC have agreed that the wood pellet industry should work toward implementing Process Safety Management (PSM).
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