Reports
Technical Reports
Best Practices for Installation of Woodwork / Millwork Products
Best practices for ensuring the highest quality installation of your woodwork / millwork products.
Best practices for ensuring the highest quality installation of your woodwork / millwork products.
Phytosanitary Report
Phytosanitary Regulations and what they mean to Wood Products Producers.
Phytosanitary Regulations and what they mean to Wood Products Producers.
Dunnage for Lumber Shipments
ISPM 15 Dunnage for Lumber Shipments.
ISPM 15 Dunnage for Lumber Shipments.
Wood and Human Health
As the health benefits of wood become better understood there is the potential to increase the specification of wood in hospitals, schools, and offices in Canada. A recent FPInnovations / UBC study established a link between the use of wood and lower stress activation. This result touches on two very current trends in architecture; evidence based design, and biophilic design. Evidence-based design is a growing movement in architecture (health, school, and office) that relies on scientifically proven health benefits in design decisions. Biophilic design is a trend to putting more natural elements into architecture for the benefit of the occupants. Evidence of health benefits supports both of these trends and can make wood a prescriptive material in sustainability and health related rating systems and codes.
Currently the competition to wood is not so much other materials, but an overemphasis on low-cost interior finish. While most designers intuitively believe in the health benefits of wood, they have little scientific evidence to back them when working with their clients. To save on project budgets wood finishes are not specified up front or often, when specified, are dropped out of projects at the finishing stage as budgets come under pressure. With evidence that supports the link between wood and health, the appearance of wood products in finished buildings is expected to increase.
As the health benefits of wood become better understood there is the potential to increase the specification of wood in hospitals, schools, and offices in Canada. A recent FPInnovations / UBC study established a link between the use of wood and lower stress activation. This result touches on two very current trends in architecture; evidence based design, and biophilic design. Evidence-based design is a growing movement in architecture (health, school, and office) that relies on scientifically proven health benefits in design decisions. Biophilic design is a trend to putting more natural elements into architecture for the benefit of the occupants. Evidence of health benefits supports both of these trends and can make wood a prescriptive material in sustainability and health related rating systems and codes.
Currently the competition to wood is not so much other materials, but an overemphasis on low-cost interior finish. While most designers intuitively believe in the health benefits of wood, they have little scientific evidence to back them when working with their clients. To save on project budgets wood finishes are not specified up front or often, when specified, are dropped out of projects at the finishing stage as budgets come under pressure. With evidence that supports the link between wood and health, the appearance of wood products in finished buildings is expected to increase.
An Overview of New Materials for Manufacturers
This report is an overview of new material science within the context of the wood products industry. It highlights current trends in material science such as nanotechnology and biomimicry, and describes some of the exciting new materials that could have application in furniture, millwork, cabinetry and outdoor products.
This report is an overview of new material science within the context of the wood products industry. It highlights current trends in material science such as nanotechnology and biomimicry, and describes some of the exciting new materials that could have application in furniture, millwork, cabinetry and outdoor products.
CNC Technology Handbook Understanding CNC Routers
FPInnovations’s new handbook Understanding CNC Routers provides you with an insight on the history of CNC technology as well as with all the information you need about tooling, software, vacuum pumps and the myriad of accessories available to the wood manufacturing industry.
FPInnovations’s new handbook Understanding CNC Routers provides you with an insight on the history of CNC technology as well as with all the information you need about tooling, software, vacuum pumps and the myriad of accessories available to the wood manufacturing industry.
Build Alberta Framing the Future
An Economic Impact Analysis of Stick Framed vs. Panelized Home Construction Methods through Case Study Analysis
An Economic Impact Analysis of Stick Framed vs. Panelized Home Construction Methods through Case Study Analysis
Applying Wood Veneer
Best Practices
Best Practices
Using Adhesives on Wood
Best Practices
Best Practices
Selling Wood Products to the Green Building Market
A Guide for Wood Product Manufacturers: Understanding Green Programs (LEED and Green Globes)
A Guide for Wood Product Manufacturers: Understanding Green Programs (LEED and Green Globes)
Lightweight Panels: One of the Paths Leading to Product Innovation
What are lightweight panels and what do they offer?
What are lightweight panels and what do they offer?
Trip Report
Win•door North America 2008
Win•door North America 2008
Technical Mission Report
IWF 2008 Atlanta, Georgia
IWF 2008 Atlanta, Georgia
Protecting and Finishing Log Building
A Wood Protection Fact Sheet
A Wood Protection Fact Sheet
Bio-Energy Reference Report
Useful information on bio-energy products, markets and reference sources
Useful information on bio-energy products, markets and reference sources
Research & Development Summary:
Improving the Performance of Wood Decking Through Coating
Improving the Performance of Wood Decking Through Coating
Research & Development Summary:
Integrated Protection of Structural Composites for Exterior Exposure
Integrated Protection of Structural Composites for Exterior Exposure
Research & Development Summary:
Design Methods for Connections in Engineered Wood Products
Design Methods for Connections in Engineered Wood Products
Research & Development Summary:
Review of Standard Test Procedures for Assessing the Delamination Resistance of Solid Wood Bond Lines
Review of Standard Test Procedures for Assessing the Delamination Resistance of Solid Wood Bond Lines
Research & Development Summary:
Fingerjointing Process and Product Handbook
Fingerjointing Process and Product Handbook
Research & Development Summary:
Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT/E) Technique for Fingerjoint (FJ) Quality Control and Evaluation
Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT/E) Technique for Fingerjoint (FJ) Quality Control and Evaluation
Research & Development Summary:
Improving the Machinability of Particleboard in Value-added Wood Processing
Improving the Machinability of Particleboard in Value-added Wood Processing
Technical Mission Report:
Ligna + 2007 World Fair for the Forestry and Wood Industries Hannover, Germany
Ligna + 2007 World Fair for the Forestry and Wood Industries Hannover, Germany