Jim Coulson

Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction

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Produktbeschreibung

There is a great deal of innovation in the use of wood inconstruction, from impressive modern buildings to new constructionproducts that reduce build times and improve building performance.As a renewable resource with proven low embodied energy, wood isboth an environmentally responsible and a highly practical choiceas a construction material. However, forest managementpractices vary throughout the world: some are highly effective indelivering a sustainable, long term supply of timber; whereasothers are less so, and could result in forest depletion andsignificant environmental degradation. Against thisbackground, a number of certification schemes have been developedthat seek to ensure that all timber is harvested from sources thatare at least legally-sourced, and at best, sustainablymanaged.

Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction explains how andwhy wood may be grown sustainably, and how this versatile materialcan be specified and - most importantly - sourced, foruse in the construction industry. It explains the modern regulatoryframework within Europe that seeks to eliminate the use ofillegally-harvested wood, and it shows how to ensure that everyonewho sells or uses wood for construction is following the rules.Finally, the book explains how, at the end of its first use inconstruction, wood can be recycled, by reprocessing into anotherwood-based construction material, or by using it as biomass.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781118539668
• ISBN-10: 1118539664
• Artikelnr.: 40457634

Autorenporträt

JIM COULSON FIMMM FFB is a Wood Scientist, Timber Technologist and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the use of wood in construction, extending back over more than 35 years. He served as President of the Institute of Wood Science from 2002 to 2004 and is currently a member of the Board of the Wood Technology Society (WTS), a Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He is a member of the WTS's Education Advisory Group and also tutors the IOM3 courses on Wood Science and Timber Technology. He has been a Visiting Lecturer to the Universities of Newcastle and Durham Schools of Architecture and Engineering, as well as to Leeds College of Building. He is also a member of the UK Executive Committee of ICOMOS and a specialist in condition surveys of historic timber buildings (he was technical timber advisor for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, working on that project for over four years). He founded TFT Woodexperts Limited - a consultancy practice dealing with all aspects of timber and wood-based products - in 1991.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi Acknowledgements xix 1 Some Things You Should Know About Wood,
Trees and Forests 1 1.1 Some basic information on how trees grow 1 1.2
Basic tree types - softwoods and hardwoods 3 1.3 The properties of timbers
5 1.4 Different forests and tree types 6 1.5 Rate of growth 7 1.6 Natural
forests 8 1.7 Managed forests: Conifers 12 1.8 Managed forests -
broadleaves 16 2 The Concept of Being 'Sustainable' 25 2.1 Being
sustainable: A definition and a target 25 2.2 What can we do to help? 28
2.3 Using the forest resource: The economic argument 33 2.4 Legal
harvesting 35 2.5 The Timber Trade Federation: Introducing its responsible
purchasing policy 37 3 Voluntary Timber Certification Schemes 41 3.1 Some
further details on the RPP 42 3.2 Checking legality - I: The Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI) 44 3.3 Checking legality - II: FLEGT 50 3.4 Going
beyond FLEGT: MYTLAS 51 3.5 Checking legality - III: Other 'legality'
certification schemes 52 3.6 Checking sustainability: Chain of Custody
Certification 54 3.7 FSC and PEFC as Chain of Custody Certifiers 57 3.8
Other Chain of Custody Certification bodies 61 3.9 UKWAS 62 3.10
Third-party assurance 62 3.11 How Chain of Custody schemes operate 63 4 The
UK Government and European Regulations: Legally Trading in World Timbers 65
4.1 Checking up on the checkers: The role of CPET 65 4.2 CPET's help with
legality and sustainability requirements 66 4.3 Legality and
sustainability: The UK government's definitions 67 4.4 Legal timber sources
- the UK government's definition 67 4.5 Sustainable timber sources - the UK
government's definition 68 4.6 Category A and Category B - 'Proof of
Compliance' 68 4.7 Current and future supplies of certified timber 70 4.8
The EUTR: Europe's new and compulsory 'timber legality scheme' 71 4.9 The
meaning of 'due diligence' 73 4.10 Satisfying the EUTR 74 4.11 Who actually
needs to obey the EUTR? 81 4.12 The 'first placer on the market' 81 4.13 CE
marking and the CPR 82 4.14 CITES: What exactly is it? 83 5 Specifying
Sustainable Timber for any Project: Some Important Dos and Don'ts; With a
Bit More About Wood 89 5.1 Using wood in a sustainable way 90 5.2 The
government's Timber Procurement Policy (TPP): A brief reminder 91 5.3
Certificates 91 5.4 What if I can't get the timber I want? 94 5.5 The use
of recycled timber 96 5.6 Insisting on a particular Chain of Custody
'brand' for your certified timber 97 5.7 Deciding which wood to use 99 5.8
Some of wood's other characteristics 105 6 Some Principal Softwoods Used in
Construction in the UK: With Their Main Properties and Sustainability
Credentials 109 7 A Selection of Hardwoods Used in the UK: With Their Main
Properties and Sustainability Credentials 125 8 Re-use of Timber and Wood
Products: The Carbon Cycle, End of Life Disposal and Biomass 155 8.1 The
true 'carbon cycle' 156 8.2 End of life disposal of timber and wood-based
products 158 8.3 Recycled timber 158 8.4 Disposal of timber in landfill 159
8.5 Burning wood: Fossil fuels versus biomass 160 8.6 Biomass 162 9 Energy
Considerations and Construction Materials 167 9.1 Embodied energy 168 9.2
Cradle to grave analysis 171 9.3 Cradle to cradle 172 9.4 BREEAM 173
Appendix 1 Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this Book 179 Appendix
2 Timber and Wood Products: Some Helpful Organisations 185 Index 187