timber Articles
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Best Practice Implementation of the European Timber Regulations Due Diligence Requirements
The EUTR requires the establishment of a due diligence system by organizations involved in the placement of timber/timber products on the EU market. The SGS 'Best Practice Implementation of the European Timber Regulations Due Diligence Requirements' guidebook helps you set-up your due diligence system and ensure compliance with the EUTR. Download a complimentary copy ...
By SGS
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Evaluating the competitiveness of railways in timber transports with discrete-event simulation
Railway liberalisation in Europe started with UK's separation of railway operations and infrastructure in the mid-1990s. From the beginning of 2007 freight operations have also been operating under free competition in Finland, where freight volume is dominated by forest industry. New entrants will most probably try to utilise the volume of this largest sub-sector. In this study, we describe and ...
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Wooden Sleeper
Are you looking for best price treated pine sleepers? Do you want to know timber paint for sleepers? Or want to buy pine sleepers? Timber sleeper(wood used in railway sleeper), it is a kind of wooden train sleepers. For the railway system, the railroad timber sleepers are an infrastructure. It is a support for the steel rails. In general, the cheap pine sleepers lay on the ballasts, and the ...
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Energy and exergy analyses of vacuum drying process of pine timbers
In this study, an experimental system for the vacuum drying of timbers is designed. Experiments in the different temperature, pressure and the residence time in vacuum are carried out. The drying experiments are conducted at three different drying temperatures varied between 40°C and 60°C. The drying experiments are conducted at three different pressures varied between 60 kPa and 80 kPa. The ...
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Wormley Primary - Case Study
Project: Breakfast/After School Club Building Client: Wormley Primary School Completed: Summer 2014 Floor area: 95m² Duration: 6 weeks Value: £105,000 Turnkey service elements completed: Design Manufacture Delivery & installations Access facilities ‘We are extremely happy with the building and service provided by Modulek. The building has given us the essential ...
By Modulek
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Book Review: Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade by Luca Tacconi (Editor)
Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade, edited by Luca Tacconi. London, Earthscan, 2007. 288pp. ISBN-10: 1844073483; ISBN-13: 978-1844073481Keywords: book ...
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Consumer affinity to wooden framehouses: a typology of German consumers
This paper presents a cluster analysis defining eight consumer types with regard to their disposition of choosing timber as predominant construction material for newly constructed houses in Germany. This typology is based on findings from a representative survey among the German population about people's attitudes towards general social issues, environment, wood, forestry, timber as construction ...
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Afforestation and reforestation in the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol: implications for forests and forest people
The social and environmental implications of plantations in the CDM are analysed under a hypothetical laissez faire approach and a proactive approach to Sustainable Development (SD), bounded by existing COP7 agreements and efficiency and equity considerations. Implications for timber rich, timber depleted and inherently timber poor regions are assessed. The social risks of industrial plantations ...
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Timber faced bin-wall, North Sydney N.S.
OWNER Public Works Canada LOCATION Cabot Trail Cape Breton Highlands National Park CONSULTANT Vaughan Engineering Associates Limited, Halifax N.S. CONTRACTOR Martell Construction, North Sydney, N.S. During the summer of 1991. Public Works Canada rebuilt more than seven kilometres of approach roads to the summit of North Mountain, on the Cabot Trail, in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. The ...
By Armtec
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Legally REDD: Building readiness for REDD by supporting developing countries in the fight against illegal logging
If reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is to work effectively, developing countries will need support to build the capacities required for enforcing their own laws and regulations. At present, timber production that violates the developing country’s own laws both acts as a barrier to REDD and costs these countries billions of dollars per year. This paper examines ...
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What Type Of Wood Can Be Made Use Of In a Timber Pellet Equipment?
When it comes to operating a timber pellet maker, the kind of wood made use of in the process can dramatically influence the quality of the end product. Picking the right timber for your wood pellet machine is important to make certain performance and also high-grade pellets. In this short article, we will certainly discover various kinds of wood that can be utilized in a ...
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Industrial development on logging frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon
In this paper, we review the concept of forest sector industrialisation and technology adoption with the goal of identifying reasons that have shaped the technological development, or lack thereof, in the Brazilian forest sector. The image of the timber industry in the Amazon has been one of excessive harvest, deforestation, and arguable misuse of a renewable resource. In this paper, we use the ...
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Use of the AccuPAR ceptometer to quantify effects of riparian vegetation removal on stream energy balance
When the vegetation along a stream bank is removed, the solar load on the stream increases. This results in increased stream water temperature. Elevated stream temperatures degrade freshwater habitats, shifting species composition, and often endangering some of the species that live in the stream. An increasing awareness of this problem has led to thecreation of riparian strips to shade streams ...
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Incorporating water production into forest management planning: a case study in Yalnizcam planning unit
Currently, because of water scarcity created by global climate change, integrating of water values provided from forest ecosystem into forest management planning has become great important. This research integrated water values into forest management planning and explained their effects on forest dynamics. Model outputs as Net Present Value (NPV) and amounts of timber and water were used as ...
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Joint production of timber and water: a case study
The integration of water production values for forest ecosystems into forest management models has become increasingly important in sustainable forest management in recent years because forests play a vital role in the quantity and quality of surface and ground water resources. The main objective of this work was to develop a multiple use forest management planning model, focusing on the economic ...
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Royal Arthur Barracks - Case Study
Project Duration: 6 Weeks Completed: Spring 2014 Contract Value: £90,000 No of Modules: 2 Turnkey service elements completed: Design Groundworks Manufacture Installation Service Connections Access Facilities Modulek provided Rangeford Developments with a ‘Show Apartment’ for their development Wadswick Green, near Cosham. Made up of two modules, the building was ...
By Modulek
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Danes Hill School - Case Study
Project: Classroom building Client: Danes Hill School Completed: Summer 2013 Floor area: 800m² Duration: 6 weeks Value: £800,000 Turnkey service elements completed: Design Groundworks Manufacture Delivery and installation Service connections Access facilities ‘The building that was supplied and erected by Modulek was going to be a short term measure for classroom ...
By Modulek
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Influence of carbon dioxide abatement and recreational services on optimal forest rotation
This paper presents and applies a theoretical framework to integrate the influence of carbon dioxide abatement as well as recreational services on the optimal bio-economic determination of forest rotation. Recreational services are included in the standard way proposed by Hartman, but carbon fixation benefits are introduced in a different manner to previous studies, concentrating on total ...
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Jewell Academy - Case Study
Client: Bournemouth Borough Council Completed: August 2014 Number of Modules: 78 Duration: 7 months Value: £2.6m Turnkey service elements completed: Design Groundworks Manufacture Delivery and installation Service connections Access facilities Playgrounds Car park “The building that was supplied and erected by Modulek was going to be a short term measure for ...
By Modulek
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Timber formwork is not sustainable
Human societies around the world have used timber as a building material for thousands of years. As wood is the only significant biological building material we are naturally inclined to believe that using wood in construction is good for the environment. As a matter of fact the environmental benefits of using timber are not straightforward: although it is a natural product, a large amount of ...
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