Sentences with phrase «timber products materials»
When mass timber products materials burn, they char — even after an hour of charring, there is still enough good wood within a cross section to carry a building's load, Bland says, noting that a building's structural elements are also overdesigned to anticipate the char forming and reducing the amount of wood available to carry the load.
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Street Furniture is dedicated to best practice in environmental management and its products are made from premium materials, locally sourced where possible, and it uses eco-certified timber from sustainably managed forests.
One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.
Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)-- prefabricated panels of wood whose strength, dimensional stability, rigidity, and large spans make it a replacement for structural steel or concrete — is currently far from a go - to building material in the U.S.. However, in what is likely an indicator of explosive growth, new product offerings for North America are arising almost as quickly as new projects are constructed with the material.
Architect Jenny Wyness chose cross-laminated timber — a smart engineered timber product which turns dimensional lumber into strong, rigid, dimensionally stable structural timber panels — for the building's structure, alongside sustainably - sourced Scottish larch for the cladding, and corrugated galvanised steel roof sheeting, which is «a cheap, traditional roofing material in the area.»
Certification of the timber or timber - derived products within a construction project provides independently verified assurance that the wood used originates from responsibly managed forests with the material tracked through every stage of the process from forest to the project.
Green materials: Fermacell dry lining board, 27 % GGBS in concrete, all timber PEFC / FSC certified, along with FSC - certified bamboo products.
Sustainable materials will be used and construction specifications are based on high recycled materials content within building products, Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, and bamboo.
A product called Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) has been used in Europe for a couple decades now, and has proven to be a startlingly green alternative to traditional «industrial age» building materials.
Recent research by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting compared the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the manufacture of timber products, with the amount of emissions generated by other common building materials.
The timber they harvest provides the raw material for many consumer goods and industrial products.
The material has been used in Europe for about two decades — and about eight years in Canada — but the push for more wood in U.S. construction stemmed from an oversupply of the product in neighboring Canada, as well as a desire to bring more jobs to rural areas of the Pacific Northwest, hurt by a dwindling timber industry, he adds.