Burning issues
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TRADA Technology wood waste experts Miles Brown, Dr Andrew Pitman and Dr Vic Kearley provide a summary of the information contained in TRADA's recent Construction Briefings on wood as biomass.
Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2012
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Introducing wood
As a construction material, timber has a very distinct advantage over the alternatives, namely that trees are a living thing and therefore a renewable resource. With the use of correctly managed forests, timber represents an excellent way of creating a more sustainable construction industry.
The treatment of timber...
08/06/2020 | Wood Information Sheet
Recovering and minimising waste wood
Wood and wood-based products are used in a wide range of applications, some with service lives of many decades before they enter the waste stream. However, it is only since the mid-1990s that an industry has emerged to recycle waste wood, where qualities such as a low moisture content compared...
13/05/2020 | Wood Information Sheet
From waste to resource
Miles Brown analyses the number that show a more than tenfold increase in wood recycling since the mid 1990s.
Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2013
01/01/2013 | Magazine Article
