Wood In Construction 25 Cases Of Nordic Good Practice

Author : Anders Vestergaard Jensen,Nic Craig
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789289360715

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Wood in Construction - 25 cases of Nordic Good Practice by Anders Vestergaard Jensen,Nic Craig Pdf

Building with wood has an untapped potential to transform the construction industry and create the next generation of low-carbon and healthy buildings. The Nordics, with an abundance of sustainably managed forest resources and a long history of building in wood, are well placed to lead in this construction revolution. Across the wood in construction value chain, from forestry and processing, through production and design, to construction and decommission, the Nordic region is innovating to build bigger and more sustainably with wood than ever before. This publication features 25 Nordic cases from across the value chain working with wood in exciting and innovative ways. These projects demonstrate the benefits and drivers for building with wood, and provide inspiration for architects, land managers, city planners, designers, suppliers and many more. The 25 cases point to five trends within Nordic wood in construction that paint a picture of where the industry is headed: 1) multifunctionality; 2) saving time and costs; 3) investing in scalability; 4) pushing the boundaries; and 5) circular design. The team behind this report – the Nordic Wood in Construction Secretariat – is an initiative commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Swedish Government, and hosted by EIT Climate-KIC. The secretariat’s aim is to support and accelerate the use of wood in Nordic construction through a portfolio of projects, fostering greater dialogue, knowledge-sharing and collaboration between stakeholders from the private sector, public sector, and academia.

Author : Anders Vestergaard Jensen,Nic Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9289360720

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Wood in Construction by Anders Vestergaard Jensen,Nic Craig Pdf

Author : Craig, Nic
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789289369015

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Accelerating low-carbon construction with wood – a Nordic Policy Snapshot by Craig, Nic Pdf

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2021-005/ Realising the Nordic vision of a carbon-neutral and circular built environment will be all but impossible without addressing the emissions from construction materials and processes. Sustainably sourced wood, as the only major renewable building material and a resource that the Nordic region has in abundance, has the potential to make a significant contribution to reducing carbon emissions from construction, supporting the shift towards a circular and bio-based economy. This publication gives an overview of the policies and initiatives helping and hindering progress in wood in construction in each Nordic country, identifying joint challenges and opportunities, and posing six questions that must be addressed going forward.

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211173280

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Circularity Concepts in Wood Construction by United Nations Publications Pdf

When it comes to sustainability and circularity, wood as a natural raw material has several advantages over other building materials. As a bio-based resource, it has considerable benefits concerning greenhouse gas emissions, carbon-storing, thermal insulation as well as human health and well-being compared to other construction materials. New types of wood products, being the result of extensive research, enable the extensive use of wood in tall buildings. At the same time, innovative wood products provide less manufacturing waste, low carbon-emission alternatives and store massive quantities of carbon while new technologies speed construction processes, promote energy efficiency and minimize waste. This study examines the benefits of wood as a construction material and discusses practices applied in the wood construction sector from the perspective of circularity, sustainability and climate change mitigation. It analyses how circularity concepts can be applied in the construction industry using different construction methods and at different stages of value chains. The study describes how different construction techniques and practices contribute to the renewal and sustainability of construction value chains. The analysis is supported by examples of good practice in UNECE member States.

Author : National Committee on Wood Utilization (U.S.),Dudley Frank Holtman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Building, Wooden
ISBN : PSU:000015758576

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Wood Construction, Principles-practice-details by National Committee on Wood Utilization (U.S.),Dudley Frank Holtman Pdf

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1366377419

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The Case for Tall Wood Buildings by Michael Green Pdf

This book describes a new structural system in wood that represents the first significant challenge to concrete and steel structures since their inception in tall building design more than a century ago. The introduction of these ideas is driven by the need to find safe, carbon-neutral and sustainable alternatives to the incumbent structural materials of the urban world. The potential market for these ideas is quite simply enormous. The proposed solutions have the potential to revolutionize the building industry, address the major challenges of climate change, urbanization, and sustainable development and to significantly contribute to world housing needs.

Author : Joseph Mayo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317587491

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Solid Wood by Joseph Mayo Pdf

Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel construction for a variety of building types, including high rises. This new solid wood architecture offers unparalleled environmental as well as construction and aesthetic benefits, and is of growing importance for professionals and academics involved in green design. Solid Wood provides the first detailed book which allows readers to understand new mass timber/massive wood architecture. It provides: historical context in wood architecture from around the world a strong environmental rationale for the use of wood in buildings recent developments in contemporary fire safety and structural issues insights into building code challenges detailed case studies of new large-scale wood building systems on a country-by-country basis. Case studies from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy, Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia highlight design strategies, construction details and unique cultural attitudes in wood design. The case studies include the most ambitious academic, hospitality, industrial, multi-family, and wood office buildings in the world. With discussions from leading architectural, engineering, and material manufacturing firms in Europe, North America and the South Pacific, Solid Wood disrupts preconceived notions and serves as an indispensable guide to twenty-first century wood architecture and its environmental and cultural benefits.

Author : Marika Bröckl,Anna Hillgrén,Mikko Halonen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789289344593

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Nordic Best Practices by Marika Bröckl,Anna Hillgrén,Mikko Halonen Pdf

The working group on Sustainable Consumption and Production, under the Nordic Council of Ministers requested consultants from Gaia to identify, write out and publish best practice cases of sustainable consumption and production on the UNEP SCP Clearinghouse. This report presents nineteen initiatives that cover two particular themes: 1) Sustainable Lifestyles and Education and 2) Sustainable Public Procurement. The cases have also been added into the UNEP's 10 Year Frame-work Program (10YFP) information platform, the SCP Clearinghouse which is a concrete result of Rio+20. The objective is to enhance international cooperation in order to accelerate a shift towards sustainable consumption and production in developed and developing countries. The SCP Clearinghouse is a web-based information sharing tool, which can be used by different actors as an inspiration for advancing SCP worldwide.

Author : Michael Green,Jim Taggart
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035604754

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Tall Wood Buildings by Michael Green,Jim Taggart Pdf

Tall Wood buildings' have been at the foreground of innovative building practice for a number of years. From London to Stockholm, from Vancouver to Melbourne timber buildings of up to 20 storeys have been built or designed. This publication explains the typical construction types and documents an international selection of 13 case studies with many specially prepared construction drawings, demonstrating the range of the technology.

Author : Gisele M. Arruda,Lara Johannsdottir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000424799

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic by Gisele M. Arruda,Lara Johannsdottir Pdf

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic considers the new trends and frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) studies that are shaping the future of global business strategy and ethics. This book systematically approaches the CSR framework of internal and external factors and their impact on the social responsibility of businesses within the sensitive environment of the Arctic. It presents traditional and contemporary models of CSR through case studies of the eight Arctic nations and explores the debates concerning social responsibility and ethical dilemmas related to social and environmental aspects of business operations, society, and ecosystems. Arruda and Johannsdottir also review approaches for engaging stakeholders in social responsibility, socio-environmental standards, and sustainability, according to frameworks like the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the Global Reporting Initiative, but also according to the new CSR strategy in the Arctic based on circular economy, blue economy, smart specialization, knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, and new parameters of education. Overall, this book examines the ways in which the changing climate and rich natural resources of the Arctic provide unique opportunities and challenges for businesses and societies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of CSR, sustainable business, and business ethics.

Author : White, Eddy,Delaney, Thomas
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522569879

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Handbook of Research on Assessment Literacy and Teacher-Made Testing in the Language Classroom by White, Eddy,Delaney, Thomas Pdf

The evaluation of student performance and knowledge is a critical element of an educator’s job as well as an essential step in the learning process for students. The quality and effectiveness of the evaluations given by educators are impacted by their ability to create and use reliable and valuable evaluations to facilitate and communicate student learning. The Handbook of Research on Assessment Literacy and Teacher-Made Testing in the Language Classroom is an essential reference source that discusses effective language assessment and educator roles in evaluation design. Featuring research on topics such as course learning outcomes, learning analytics, and teacher collaboration, this book is ideally designed for educators, administrative officials, linguists, academicians, researchers, and education students seeking coverage on an educator’s role in evaluation design and analyses of evaluation methods and outcomes.

Author : Niamh Nic Shuibhne,Laurence W. Gormley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191635892

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From Single Market to Economic Union by Niamh Nic Shuibhne,Laurence W. Gormley Pdf

The path from single market to economic union is a continuing, and controversial, story; raising questions about the present and future regulation, structures, and purpose of economic union within the broader objectives of the EU legal and political order. This collection focuses on the evolution and regulation of the EU as an economic union, in tribute to the scholarship of the late Professor John A Usher. The process of treaty reform within the EU has now reached fruition and attention is being re-focused on substantive aspects of EU law and policy. The essays in the collection consider the EU internal market in its broadest sense: the fundamental free movement provisions remain at the core, but the concept of the transnational market must also accommodate competing interests to which the EU is committed but the implications of which can nonetheless distort, and thus need to be carefully balanced within, the basic free trade framework (for example, intellectual property rights and the protection of innovation, and also the implementation of social policy objectives). The collection also situates the market in its broader politico-economic context. The global economic climate remains precarious and questions about optimal financial and fiscal regulation, and monetary stability, remain critically significant, especially in a transnational context given the degree of inter-dependency generated by the EU integration project. The essays in the collection offer in-depth reflections on different 'parts' of this evolving transnational economic union, linked together as a whole by cross-cutting thematic concerns about competence and regulation, and about where and how the economic law of the EU fits within the broader integration narrative. Together, these different elements of the proposed collection demonstrate the different facets of EU economic law and its regulation; and this approach, in turn, reflects the extraordinary breadth of John Usher's remarkable contribution to scholarship.

Author : Työterveyslaitos (Finland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Industrial hygiene
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082834676

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Annual Report by Työterveyslaitos (Finland) Pdf

Author : Giovanna Concu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789858437

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Timber Buildings and Sustainability by Giovanna Concu Pdf

The construction sector alone accounts for 40 percent of resource consumption and environmental pollution. In line with the current considerations on environmental sustainability, particular attention is paid to eco-sustainable building materials such as timber. Timber is able to perform both load-bearing and comfort constructive functions. It is also a natural, renewable and recyclable material. However, its use as an engineering material calls for constant development and research. This book provides insight into the spread of the use of timber in the construction industry, presenting some thoughts on important aspects related to production, design and responsible use.

Author : Sadhan Kumar Ghosh,Sannidhya Kumar Ghosh,Benu Gopal Mohapatra,Ronald L. Mersky
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000505252

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Circular Economy in the Construction Industry by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh,Sannidhya Kumar Ghosh,Benu Gopal Mohapatra,Ronald L. Mersky Pdf

Circular Economy in the Construction Industry is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD and Masters-level students in universities analyzing the present status of Construction and Demolition Wastes (C&DW) management, materials development utilizing slag, fly ash, HDPE fibre, geo-wastes, and other wastes, green concrete, soil stabilization, resource circulation in construction sectors, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs, and future research areas. While huge C&DW is wasted by dumping, there is potential of recycling preventing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and environmental pollution as well as creating business opportunities. Circularity of resources in the construction industry can contribute to a more secure, sustainable, and economically sound future through proper policy instruments, management systems, and recycling by selecting the following: Supply chain sustainability and collection of C&D Wastes, Appropriate separation and recycling technology, Enforcement of policy instruments, Productivity, quality control of recycled products and intended end use, Economic feasibility as business case, commercialization, generating employment. This book addresses most of the above issues in a lucid manner by experts in the field from different countries, which are helpful for the related stakeholders, edited by experts in the field.