Joinery - saving on timber waste disposal and heating cost
In This Series
- Assessment of the durability and engineering properties of lesser-known hardwood timber species for use in marine and freshwater construction
- Avoiding landfill through effective wood waste disposal and a shift in product focus
- Bracing for non-domestic timber trussed rafter roofs
- Cross-laminated timber: an introduction
- Environmentally responsible construction: Community wood recycling
This research information sheet investigates how a bespoke joinery business worked with local farmers and altered their waste management process to become not only greener, but also more cost efficient.
Using joinery firm J Hodgson & Sons as a case study, this sheet looks at how an agreement with local farmers to take their wood chippings and an investment in a wood fuelled boiler saved them £5000 per year on waste timber storage costs while also reducing their heating costs by around £1200 per year.
Contents:
- The achievement
- Background
- The wood waste problem
- Dealing with wood chip waste
- Solving the solid timber waste problem
Suggested Reading
Wood used in joinery: The UK mass balance and efficiency in use
This report forms part of the Biffaward Programme on Sustainable Resource Use. The joinery sector purchases the greater part of its wood in the form of raw timber rather than manufactured products, and at nearly 650,000 tonnes in 2000, approximately four times more softwood is purchased than hardwood. Other raw...
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Wood used in construction: The UK mass balance and efficiency of use
This report forms part of the Biffaward Programme on Sustainable Resource Use. In 2002, the UK net timber supply for the construction sector was 12.3 million tonnes and this accounted for four million of the six million tonnes of softwood entering the UK.
Contents:
- List of figures ...
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Wood: The UK Mass Balance and efficiency of use: summary report
The document provides a summary of the UK timber industry mass balance for 2002 and brings together the findings of individual mass balance studies undertaken by the five key sectors in the timber industry. These are construction, furniture, joinery, packaging and pulp and paper. Mass balance provides a method for...
01/01/2005 | Info from other organisation
