Sustainable use of wood in construction Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction explains how and why wood may be grown sustainably and how this versatile material can be specified and most importantly sourced for use in the construction industry. It explains the modern regulatory framework within Europe that seeks to eliminate the use of illegally harvested wood and it shows how to ensure that everyone who sells or uses wood for construction is following the rules. Finally the book explains how at the end of its first use in construction wood can be recycled by reprocessing into another wood based construction material or by using it as biomass. Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgements 1 Some Things You Should Know About Wood Trees and Forests 1.1 Some basic information on how trees grow 1.2 Basic tree types softwoods and hardwoods 1.3 The properties of timbers 1.4 Different forests and tree types 1.5 Rate of growth 1.6 Natural forests 1.7 Managed forests: Conifers 1.8 Managed forests: Broadleaves 2 The Concept of Being Sustainable 2.1 Being sustainable: A definition and a target 2.2 What can we do to help 2.3 Using the forest resource: The economic argument 2.4 Legal harvesting 2.5 The Timber Trade Federation: Introducing its responsible purchasing policy 3 Voluntary Timber Certification Schemes 3.1 Some further details on the RPP 3.2 Checking legality I: The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 3.3 Checking legality II: FLEGT 3.4 Going beyond FLEGT: MYTLAS 3.5 Checking legality III: Other legality certification schemes 3.6 Checking sustainability: Chain of Custody Certification 3.7 FSC and PEFC as Chain of Custody Certifiers 3.8 Other Chain of Custody Certification bodies 3.9 UKWAS 3.10 Third party assurance 3.11 How Chain of Custody schemes operate 4 The UK Government and European Regulations: Legally Trading in World Timbers 4.1 Checking up on the checkers: The role of CPET 4.2 CPETs help with legality and sustainability requirements 4.3 Legality and sustainability: The UK governments definitions 4.4 Legal timber sources the UK governments definition 4.5 Sustainable timber sources the UK governments definition 4.6 Category A and Category B Proof of Compliance 4.7 Current and future supplies of certified timber 4.8 The EUTR: Europes new and compulsory timber legality scheme 4.9 The meaning of due diligence 4.10 Satisfying the EUTR 4.11 Who actually needs to obey the EUTR 4.12 The first placer on the market 4.13 CE marking and the CPR 4.14 CITES: What exactly is it 5 Specifying Sustainable Timber for any Project: Some Important Dos and Donts; With a Bit More About Wood 5.1 Using wood in a sustainable way 5.2 The governments Timber Procurement Policy (TPP): A brief reminder 5.3 Certificates 5.4 What if I cant get the timber I want 5.5 The use of recycled timber 5.6 Insisting on a particular Chain of Custody brand for your certified timber 5.7 Deciding which wood to use 5.8 Some of woods other characteristics 6 Some Principal Softwoods Used in Construction in the UK: With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials 7 A Selection of Hardwoods Used in the UK: With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials 8 Re use of Timber and Wood Products: The Carbon Cycle End of Life Disposal and Biomass 8.1 The true carbon cycle 8.2 End of life disposal of timber and wood based products 8.3 Recycled timber 8.4 Disposal of timber in landfill 8.5 Burning wood: Fossil fuels versus biomass 8.6 Biomass 9 Energy Considerations and Construction Materials 9.1 Embodied energy 9.2 Cradle to grave analysis 9.3 Cradle to cradle 9.4 BREEAM Appendix 1 Terms Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this Book Appendix 2 Timber and Wood Products: Some Helpful Organisations Index