This Event was held at Serena hotel Nairobi on the 28th of June 2022 hosted by Gatsby Africa. Representatives from the forestry sector, furniture industry, and government institutions from Kenya and Uganda were in attendance. The event was organized into various sessions representing sections of the wood value chain from […]
Timber
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The Project What you can see in the picture below is an artistic demonstration of what fast-growing timber can be used for, right behind two of our amazing colleagues. This construction was built by Fairventures Worldwide in 2019, as a first showcase of just one application of the so-called “Glulam” […]
For a variety of reasons, mass building materials in dry construction are becoming scarce and at the same time significantly more expensive across the range. Not only steel products are affected (this is a particularly volatile market), but also wood and wood products, EPS and XPS, products with high cardboard […]
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 […]
General information Glulam is short for glued laminated timber and is a mass timber product which is common to use for engineered timber structures. It is made of different thin wooden boards, which are bonded to one bigger beam with a durable, moisture resistant adhesive. The varieties of designs and […]
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how we selected local, fast-growing wood species. These species should have potential in the field of agroforestry as well as potential as timber for use as a building material. To achieve this objective, two sets of criteria have been put in place, […]
In order to increase product innovation in the Indonesian lightwood processing industry, the relevant stakeholders along the value chain need to understand the importance of sorting and grading of the lightwood. A crucial aspect is to understand that fast-growing plantation wood with a short cutting cycle, contains large portions of […]
Timber construction is experiencing a boom. Due to its sustainability characteristics but also due to other aspects such as higher productivity and higher well-being, wood is going through a renaissance phase. In the past century or so, wood has been considered as a material that is not durable – if […]
Construction of the new 84-meter, 24-storey high ‘HoHo Tower‘ in Vienna, Austria – set to be the world’s tallest timber building – has been underway for over a year now. Around 76 percent of the structure will be constructed from wood. Hoho Wien will house a hotel, apartments, a restaurant, […]
Timber structures know no boundaries. A good example of a successful and sustainable application of timber in modern architecture is the 7-storey Tamedia office building in the heart of Zurich by Shigeru Ban Architects.