New woodland creation is one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing carbon emissions and offsetting our nation’s carbon footprint. The combination of an undersupply of our own timber in Wales and the ambitions of Wales and the Welsh Government to create new woodlands means that an organisation interested in creating new woodlands can play […]
Timber Cladding—Specification Guidance for Social Housing
Timber cladding has become increasingly popular, mainly for its sustainability credentials and low environmental impact: It has a low carbon footprint as it requires less energy to produce than any other construction material and helps lock carbon into the building fabric. It is made from renewable material – wood – and can be reused, recycled […]
Making the Right Choices—A Guide to Improving the Build Quality of New Build Timber Frame Social Housing
Making the right decisions for the benefit of a building’s long term performance and user experience can be compromised by cost, lack of experience, and poor understanding of timber frame construction. This guide aims to highlight some of the key points to consider along the pathway of designing, constructing and maintaining timber frame housing. These […]
New guidance for embodied carbon
Reversing man-made temperature rise is the big challenge of our time. New guidance contains advice on how to make embodied carbon assessments, available tools and benchmarks for comparison.
Embodied Carbon – the key questions
How to reduce embodied carbon in social housing developments? This article highlights key questions and answers for strategic leadership teams.
Embodied Carbon Guidance for Welsh Social Housing Developers, their design teams, contractors and suppliers
This guidance has been written for those wanting to both increase their knowledge of Embodied Carbon in the housing sector and to understand how to reduce it.
Making the Foundational Economy happen – with joinery
What if a group of independent joiners could produce a Welsh timber window that meets all requirements for the social housing sector in Wales? Here’s how far we got today.
Home-Grown Homes Updates – December 2020
After three intense years the project formally ends this month, a significant body of work which altogether makes a compelling case for having an industrial strategy for timber in Wales.
Mandatory quality standards for new homes – WKW response
Woodknowledge Wales has responded to Welsh Government’s consultation on the standards new homes will need to meet in the future. We think the climate emergency demands a proactive approach from house builders of all types and we should be moving to a target driven approach. We think new homes need to be Net Zero Whole […]
WoodBUILD 2020 Autumn Series – Podcasts
Podcasts in our 2020 autumn series include the following themes: Our Future Forests, Future Homes and how we build (or make them), Better performing homes and the foundational economy. Discussants are Jo O’Hara, John Healey, Jasper Meade, Neil Sutherland, Fionn Stevenson, Rob Wheaton, Debbie Green and Steve Cranston.
