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The purpose of the Home-Grown Homes project has been to identify and test out interventions that could have a transformative impact on the Welsh timber construction supply chain and on ...
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New homes often fail to meet low-energy targets, and to satisfy residents with fundamental issues such as ease of use, summer comfort and energy costs. There is little Building Performance ...
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Why would it be beneficial for Welsh society to build a wood economy? The ‘Serious about Green?’ report takes a closer look and analyses the economic and social parameters. The ...
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The future building stock is the most effective and most immediate opportunity for carbon reduction and long-term carbon storage. By creating a new economic model for monetising the carbon reduction ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to reduce embodied carbon in social housing developments? This article highlights key questions and answers for strategic leadership teams ...
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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 ...
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