Wood building program
Wood building program
Wood building program
YM025:00/2018 Development
The Wood Building Programme (2016–2022) is a joint government undertaking coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment aimed at increasing the use of wood in urban development, public buildings as well as large constructions such as bridges and halls.
Basic information Completed
Project number YM025:00/2018
Case numbers VN/5161/2020
Set by Ministry of the Environment
Term/schedule 1.1.2016 – 31.12.2023
Date of appointment 26.6.2016
Publications and reports
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15.5.2023 University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Forest Sciences
Final report to the project funder: Ministry of the Environment, Finland. Project VN/1434/2019. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Forest Sciences. Natural Resources Research Institute Finland (Luke). Swedish University of Life Sciences (SLU), Department of Forest Sciences, provides a separate report to the Swedish funder Contact/UH: Ritva Toivonen, ritva.toivonen(at)helsinki.fi Contact/Luke: Katja Lähtinen, katja.lahtinen(at)luke.fi
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2.7.2022
The general objective of ForestValue Click Design consortium project is to develop a performance-based protocol to provide a software tool for service life performance of wood for architects, planners and university students.
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15.6.2022 Aalto University
Long-lived wood products, such as those used in building construction, store the atmospheric carbon sequestered during tree growth until the wood is oxidized either through biodegradation or burning. Further, when wood products replace materials such as steel and concrete, additional substitutive benefits accrue. To conserve primary resources and to prevent waste, there is significant incentive to reuse, or recycle waste wood recovered from building demolition in material form, prior to combustion with energy recovery. In work package 4 of the InFutUReWood project, our objectives were to conduct an inventory of wood products used in residential houses, investigate demolition methods to identify if changes could be made to recover a higher proportion of waste wood with quality suitable for cascading. Moreover, our objectives were to create a set of quality criteria against which to measure the quality of recovered wood and to create a tool for predicting the volumes and quality of waste wood arising from building demolition.
National Targets for Public Wood Building PDF
1.9.2020 Ministry of the Environment
Other documents and memorandums
Decision template for grants PDF
22.2.2021 Ministry of the Environment
Conditions and restriction concerning special grants of the Ministry of the Environment PDF
22.2.2021 Ministry of the Environment
Project group
Person
Role, Term
Humphreys, Iida
Suunnittelija
Ministry of the Environment
Role: Project contact person
13.1.2021 – 31.12.2022
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