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    • CommentAuthorDanb1203
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2007 edited
     
    Hi all,

    i've been asked to do some reasearch into temperate timber - and how it is the first choice as a material for sustainable construction within the UK.

    So I thought i'd post it on here and see if any of you lot would have any knowledege or information on this, or even a view.

    All thoughts would be helpful

    many thanks
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2007
     
    First choice is a little strong what about mud stone clay straw chalk lime concrete they may all be above timber?
    • CommentAuthorbiffvernon
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2007
     
    Yes, plenty of views. (Maybe a little knowledge.)

    Just what do you want to know?

    I'm a joiner and only use English Oak. There's nothing wrong with French or East European oak but my local sawmill happens to have lots of English. Generally, I can't see much point in not using locally grown timber. It grows well in our climate and if more was used it wood encourage better forestry management.

    I would think there might be a good case for growing leylandii, not in suburban hedges but in forestry for construction timber. Fast growing, disease resistant, hardy in a variety of climates and soil conditions and producing a strong durable timber.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2007
     
    There's loads of timber, mainly hardwood, falling in gardens, estates, hedgerows, often left to rot or chopped up for firewood............ surely a good business for someone with a mobile saw rig? Have to get there within a few months, year max, otherwise it soon starts to rot from the inside.

    6x6m dining extension for a holistic/corporate venue/hotel run by a resident community - they pulled in a chippy from Holland and a retired proj manager from London and they self-built it. 2no 9"x6" truss/portal frames made from beech fallen on site - well that was the idea but unfortunately the saw man, who'd thought it wd be all right, found a lot of rot, so we ended up buying half of it from his stock - neat! But lovely - well spalted (pretty black stain lines caused by early stages of fungus - prized by cabinet makers), for skirtings and cillboards as well as the frame. Beech is completely non-durable, but fine as long as you detail it to keep completely dry. Also no strength data, so as 9"x6" was well oversize, no problem.

    Another great timber, on this basis - Cupressus Leylandii - attractive, yellow, good for flooring.
    • CommentAuthorDanb1203
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2007
     
    good points made for all....

    i dont know what i'm really after...... I'm doing my 3rd year at Plymouth univeristy - studying building surveying and the environment....

    and have been asked to do some research into the title above..... so i basically put to to the green building forum to get some ideas of where to head with my research.

    i think they want me to look along the lines of everything to do with temperate timber from location of growth - varieties, then possibly policies in place to help with the sourcing of temperate timber???? i dunno really...... i was just fishing for ideas of a direction to head in.

    thanks for all your comments so far....

    if you think of anything else or have more views then please post it.. thanks again
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2007
     
    Canada are now pretty good at foresting and replanting and managing try looking ate their codes of practice for timber production.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2007
     
    Wot, so are Canadian shingles OK then, not made out of 1000yr old trees any more?

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