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Building with Environmentally Sustainable Structural Timber (BEST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

"This IRSES staff exchange will provide a technological leap for sustainable timber construction. The research collaboration will develop an entirely new system of timber buildings, from single storey up to 6 storeys or more, to support the growing international interest in timber as a sustainable, low energy and high carbon building material. The high strength, low mass, and design flexibility of...
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Advanced Systems for Wood Fire Protection (ReactaFire)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Wood is an important construction material (over 70% of people in the developed world live in timber frame housing) as it performs well as an engineering material and compared to other commonly used construction materials it is more sustainable. However, timber is combustible, unlike concrete or steel, and this has significant implications for how it is used within the construction industry as the...
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Suspended timber floor insulation project (Ufloor)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

In the UK, 6.2 million1 homes, in the Netherlands, 2.65 million2 homes built before the 1920s have uninsulated suspended timber floors, and based on our preliminary research across the EU (such as Belgium, NorthFrance, North-Germany) it is anticipated that further ~10 millions of homes have similar floor construction due the same climatic and ground-water conditions, resulting in a 18.3 million ho...
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Central College Nottingham - European Scholarship Programme 2016

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Central College Nottingham has a proven track record of offering European Mobility opportunities to its learners. This project seeks to continue this excellent initiative with a number of mobility opportunities within the School of Sports, Tourism and Public Services Construction and Lifestyles. There is a great importance for Colleges to be preparing students not only in vocational excellence but...
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Progress through collaboration - Advancing education and training in timber construction

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The aim of this project is to improve education in timber construction starting from the apprentice level up to further training activities of professionals on a European level.Teaching and training methods need to be defined which are most suitable to master challenges on a national level considering the impact on an international level. In order to apply appropriate improvement measures more tra...
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eSTEP Structural Timber Education and Training Using Internet Technologies

The project addresses the wood sector and intends to create a modern multimedia version of the structural timber education programme with new material and a new presentation approach, using existing technology in e-learning and adapting it to the new context of the timber education programme. The internet based material will be available at www.innovawood.com, an Internet portal for the forest and...
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eSTEP Structural Timber Education and Training Using Internet Technologies

The project addresses the wood sector and intends to create a modern multimedia version of the structural timber education programme with new material and a new presentation approach, using existing technology in e-learning and adapting it to the new context of the timber education programme. The internet based material will be available at www.innovawood.com, an Internet portal for the forest and...
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Utilisation of recovered wood and rubber for alternative composite products (WOODRUB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Background The project is targeting the reuse of waste wood and rubber tyre products. (1) The recycling of waste wood products is increasing. This is a positive development as it increases the total volume of CO2 stored as wood-based products, broadening the life-cycle of the fixed carbon in the newly recycled products. However, such wood wastes current...
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Manufacture of Composite Pallet Blocks using Waste Wood and Tyre-Derived Materials (Tyre/Wood Block)

Start date: Oct 1, 2005, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

Background A major part of the around 2 700 000 used tyres generated in Europe in 2002 was disposed of in landfills – just 47% were re-used, retreated or recycled (OECD). Of the remainder, about a half was landfilled while the rest was burned for energy recovery. However, the EU Landfill Directive banned the landfilling of whole tyres in 2003, and two y...
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Pilot-plant for the material utilization of plastic waste in the production of products based on new, polimere-bound wood materials (WPCRecycle)

Start date: Dec 1, 2001, End date: May 31, 2004,

Background In Europe, some 48 million m3 wood chipboards were produced in 2000-2001. Only a small section of these boards is exposed directly to weathering, where the boards' construction functions or decorative features have to last for many years. WERZALIT AG + CO KG produces duroplast-chipwood mouldings that are weatherproof and suitable for outdoor ap...
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Gaining Added-value from Timber in Europe (GATE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

GATE is raising awareness of the link between timber, sustainable construction and sustainable regional development. It is also looking at ways of increasing the use of timber for construction, building new markets and adding value. Its overall aim is to challenge the view that timber is a traditional, old fashioned and beautiful but expensive material by showing that it can cut construction times...
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Fire Risk Prevention and Improvement of the Fire Extinction Systems of the Historic Town Centers of Cities named Word Heritage (HERITPROT)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Fires at Heritage Sites have always presented special challenges to Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) worldwide, not only because of the loss or damage of historical value, but also because of the difficulties in fire-fighting and rescue in such incidents.Their design, construction, layout and fire load are conducive to rapid and uncontrolled fire spread. Lack of separation and compartmentation, dust...
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Clustering knowledge, Innovation and Design in the SEE WOOD sector (ID:WOOD)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

With its surplus of forests resources the wood sector in the SEE area presents significant potentials still to be exploited. In most of SE Europe countries, wood sector is rather fragmented, lacking an organic policy approach that would create the basic conditions for its development. The area involved in the project is characterized by a clear dual spatial pattern, where some of the regions invol...
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