Sustainable use of wood in construction

Intro -- Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 -...
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Intro -- Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 -- 1.8.1 Temperate forests -- 1.8.2 Tropical forests -- 1.8.3 Plantations -- 2 The Concept of Being 'Sustainable' -- 2.1 Being sustainable: A definition and a target -- 2.2 What can we do to help? -- 2.2.1 Where wood is used in our lives -- 2.3 Using the forest resource: The economic argument -- 2.3.1 'Illegal logging' -- 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 -- 3.5.1 TLTV -- 3.5.2 OLB -- 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 CPET 's help with legality and sustainability requirements -- 4.3 Legality and sustainability: The UK government's definitions -- 4.4 Legal timber sources - the UK government's definition -- 4.5 Sustainable timber sources - the UK government's definition. Ausführliche Beschreibung