Topic outline
General
- Timber: origin, materials and systems File 316.9KB PDF document
Key points:
- Timber and wood
- Wood structure
- Wood properties
- Durability classes of wood species
- Timber Products
- Timber building systems
- Carbon sequestration
- Timber prefabrication
- Timber life-cycle
- Environment and economic life cycle assessment of buildings File 3.6MB PDF document
Key points :
- Quality of construction
- Life cycle
- Assessment of construction
- Construction materials
- Embodied energy
- Timber: origin, materials and methods File 1.7MB PDF document
Key points:
- Timber throughout history
- Types of timber
- Hardwood and softwood
- Sawn timber
- Engineered timber
- Reconstituted timber
- Sustainable sourcing
- Procuring timber
- Global environment issues related to sustainable timber_RHT File 1.6MB PDF document
Key points
- Carbon Foot Print
- Ecological Foot Print
- Climate Change
- Forest, Forestry and Carbon
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Forest management
- Forests role In Carbon Cycle
- Embodied Energy
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Urban population growth
- Measuring sustainability
- Sustainable design principles
- European forests in numbers File 616.4KB PDF document
Key points
- Forests in EU
- Share of forests
- % of protected forests
- Distribution by forest types
- Timber: Simple or Complex File 5.1MB PDF document
- Believing in wood File 26.7MB PDF document