by Juliet Nanyonga & Simon Bosch In 2018, the Mass Timber Construction Project (MTCEA) was launched with the goal of creating pathways for sustainable mass timber construction in East Africa. This project included research into the timber value chain in Uganda and the development and improvement of sustainable mass timber […]
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After the development of an engineered wood production line of glue laminated (Glulam) and finger jointed timber in Uganda, the interest in application of these products has increased in the country and the region. This has been evidenced by the number of people reaching out online and the physical invitations […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Upon its completion in 2021, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will cost about $180 million Singapore Dollars (USD 135 Mio.) and will be Asia´s largest wooden building at 40,000 gross square meters. This six-story building will house the Nanyang Business School as well as activities of several other colleges and […]
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 […]
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, […]