Lumber

Lumber

Timber after it has been sawed and split into planks or other smaller components that can be used as building material.

Contributors in Lumber

Lumber

Wood with wide conspicuous growth rings in which there is considerable difference between earlywood and latewood. The term is sometimes used to designate wood with large pores, but in this sense the ...

embodied energy

Building materials; Lumber

The amount of non-renewable energy used to extract and process raw materials into finished building components. The embodied energy of a material is usually expressed in the units MJ/kg and that of a ...

fiberboard

Building materials; Lumber

A generic term including sheet materials of widely varying densities manufactured from refined or partially refined wood or vegetable fibers. Bonding agents and other materials may be added to ...

coarse grain

Building materials; Lumber

Lumber with wide conspicuous growth rings in which there is considerable difference between earlywood and latewood. The term is sometimes used to designate wood with large vessels, but in this sense ...

laminated lumber

Building materials; Lumber

A built up product made of layers or laminations of wood, all with the grain laid parallel and glued or otherwise fastened together. Laminating lumber allows large and structurally reliable sections ...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992

Building materials; Lumber

The objective of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and related legal instruments is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous ...

environmental management systems

Building materials; Lumber

Environmental management systems are systems that ensure the organization is working within the framework of ecologically sustainable development. These systems can be formal or informal. Formal ...