Presentations from The future of Queensland Hardwoods: aligning growth, processing and sales for success.
Click on the links below to access the presentations made at Timber Queensland's seminar on 20 August 2010.
The Hardwood Resource - what is it, where is it and how much is avaliable. Jim Burgess, Resource & Environment Manager, Timber Queensland
Traditional to emerguing sawmilling converting small diameter logs. Owen Woodford
Cost management to sales, the workforce, residue. Laurie Gardner
Research & development activity - what does the future hold. Part 1 Part 2. Henri Bailleres, Horticulture & Forestry Sciences.
Adding value with hardwood. Ted Stubbersfield, Director, Outdoor Structures Australia
Using hardwood - what to tell your customers. Colin MacKenzie, Resource & Environment Manager, Timber Queensland
Chain of Custody certification. Jim Burgess, Resource & Environment Manager, Timber Queensland
Presentations from Queenslands New Building Regulations: how, when and where timber fits best.
Click on the links below to access the presentations made at Timber Queensland's seminar on 30 July.
Designing and building for energy efficiency: a practical guide to meeting energy efficency requirements. Russell Brandon, Executive Director, Building Designers Association of Queensland
Holistic building sustainability - considering the embodied energy of construction materials and the lifecycle impacts of material choices. How does timber stack up? - Darryl O'Brien, Certon PowerPoint - Written Paper
Sustainable building and design - how timber can help manage and solve the challenges. Michael Champan, General Manager Design & Environment, Delfin Lend Lease
Using timber and complying with AS3959 - 2009 Construction of buildings in bushfire prone areas. Plus practical tools that confirm timber as the energy efficient construction material. Colin MacKenzie, Manager Application & Use, Timber Queensland
Presentations from Bio-energy under the microscope: fact or fiction?
Click on the links below to access the presentations made at Timber Queensland's bio-energy seminar on 1 July.
Environmental benefits of timber
The government's Queensland timber plantation 2020 strategy: Growing the future of Queensland's timber plantations delivers some interesting information regarding the ability of timber plantations to improve diodiversity when compared to some other land uses, offset demand for native forest timber products and provide salinty, water interception and erosion benefits. Consider this...
In the process of growing 1 cubic metre of timber, about 230 kg of carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere and 160 kg of oxygen is released. One large tree is estimated to provide sufficient oxygen for up to four people per day, and 500 mature trees can absorb all of the carbon dioxide emitted by a typical car covering 20 000 km per year.
The Facts: Chain of Custody Certification & Forest Certification Schemes
1 September 2009
Government, businesses and consumers are steadily growing demand for certified timber. But what is certified timber? How does it get certified? And who certifies it as coming from legal and sustainable forests? To answer these common questions Timber Queensland has produced two fact sheets summarising the major issues invovled in Chain of Custody Certification and Forest Certification Schemes.
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The Facts: Chain of Custody Certification
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The Facts: Forest Certification Schemes
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Russell Brandon, Executive Director, Building Designers Association of Queensland
Holistic building sustainability – considering the embodied energy of construction materials and the life cycle impacts of material choices. How does timber stack up? PowerPoint - Written Paper
Darryl O'Brien, Certcon
Michael Chapman, General Manager Design & Environment, Delfin Lend Lease
Colin MacKenzie, Manager Application & Use, Timber Queensland