Wood Awards magazine | 2026
Publication showcasing the shortlisted building and furniture projects of the Wood Awards 2026.
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Wood Awards magazine | 2025
Publication showcasing the shortlisted and winning building and furniture projects of the Wood Awards 2025.
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Wood Awards magazine | 2024
Publication showcasing the shortlisted and winning building and furniture projects of the Wood Awards 2024.
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Wood Awards magazine | 2023
Publication showcasing the shortlisted and winning building and furniture projects of the Wood Awards 2023.
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Building from England’s Woodlands
A pioneering research initiative has demonstrated that England’s underutilised deciduous broadleaf forests could play a transformative role in delivering low-carbon buildings, supporting biodiversity, and strengthening domestic supply chains.
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Timber Frame – Digital Guide
The Commercial Timber Guidebook has been developed to address the common concerns that face timber construction. These typically include durability, moisture, fire safety, and as a result, the challenge of obtaining sustainable property insurance. These issues are compounded by a lack of comprehensive guidance specific to mass timber construction.
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Embodied Carbon Data for Timber Products
Although timber is classed as a low embodied carbon construction material, different timber products will have different embodied carbon values depending on the energy inputs during processing and transportation.
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Optoppen – building upwards with timber
“Optoppen,” a Dutch term translating as “topping up,” refers to a construction method aimed at maximising the usable space in our cities through the addition of lightweight, low-carbon roof extensions. The Optoppen project promotes and facilitates the low-carbon redevelopment and extension of existing buildings.
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The zero-emissions resource pool: construction materials compatible with a realistic view of delivering zero-emissions in the UK by 2050
This summary outlines research that provides a critical review of options to supply construction materials in the UK with realistic expectations about the availability of carbon storage, zero-emissions electricity and zero-emissions transport.
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Strategies for salvaging and repurposing timber elements from existing buildings in the UK
This summary outlines research which investigates strategies for salvaging and repurposing timber elements from existing buildings, by reusing or upcycling timber.
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