The climate crisis is the most serious crisis of our time, and it affects all of us. The rate of evaporation increases as the temperature of the Earth rises. It causes precipitation to increase in some areas while decreasing in others, and it causes the rain that does fall to […]
Structural timber
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Due to the high population growth rate in East Africa and the widening poverty gap emphasized by the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of decent housing has increased. This is evidenced by the expansion of slums on the peripherals of most urban regions in Uganda. This has created the need for […]
Paraserianthes falcataria L. (also: Albizia falcataria L.) is a pioneer tree species, which is able to make soils usable again and enrich them with nitrogen due to its characteristic as a legume. Paraserianthes f. (Sengon) is already widely processed on Java, but mainly into standard products such as plywood, other […]
Mechanical and physical properties of timber can vary greatly from species to species. But they can also vary greatly within one species itself. Especially fast-growing plantation timber, such as Sengon, which has a high degree of juvenile timber, has a great range of properties (Please also see the article on […]