Featuring a ‘timber first’ approach, using home-grown timber and timber products manufactured off-site, the Gwynfaen housing project exemplifies low carbon home construction in Wales
HGH case studies English
Case Study: Manufacturer
Two Neath Port Talbot organisations working in partnership demonstrates how targeted funding from Welsh Government promotes innovation and collaboration
Case Study: Grower
Collective action secured quality sawlogs for local businesses to process into a range of high-value timber products enabling small sawmillers to add value to the timber supply chain in Wales
Case Study: Tai ar y Cyd
Tai ar y Cyd harnesses the power of 23 Welsh social landlords collaborating to build new zero carbon homes that will unlock wellbeing benefits for families, communities, and local economies
Case Study: Processor
Pontrilas is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for Welsh-grown timber in construction and could be instrumental in supporting Wales’s first Timber Industrial Strategy
Case Study: Circular Economy 1
The UKs longest established manufacturer of wood-based panel products is adopting the three principles of resource circularity – reduce, reuse and recycle – at its north Wales manufacturing plant
Case Study: Farmer
Growing timber for revenue diversification on Welsh farmland
Case Study: Circular Economy 2
With its sights on creating the world’s first circular economy for high-quality recovered wood fibres from waste, MDF Recovery has developed a process to recycle medium density fibreboard (MDF)
Case Study: Placemaking
A series of case studies illustrating embodied and operational
carbon impacts of masterplanning decisions at development
level.
