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
Home-Grown Homes
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.
Housing’s better future
Social Housing Developers Community of Practice members enjoy a hosted tour to include both off-site creation of timber frame panels and on-site progress at the Gwynfaen Project
Bio Materials in Retrofit: An Industry Perspective at AECB Annual Conference
Applying best practice to create sustainable timber solutions for homes across Wales On Friday 27th September 2024 at 2pm during the AECB annual conference in The National Self Build & Renovation Centre in Swindon, audiences enjoyed a joint presentation from Dr Diana Waldron, Head of Built Environment for Woodknowledge Wales, and Richard Hawking, Technical Innovations […]
Sustainable Construction Careers Fair
6 March 2024, 11:30am – 14:30pm, Swansea Campus, IQ Building, IQ001-IQ002, Free to attend
Home-Grown Homes Update
January 2024 – nine months into the second phase of the two-year project
Wales Net Zero 2035 Challenge Group: evidence submission
Woodknowledge Wales has submitted evidence on how could Wales heat and build homes and workplaces by 2035
Home-Grown Homes 2 Update
December 2023: This update has been prepared by David Hedges, our Head of Housing and the Home-Grown Homes 2 project manager
