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

The process by which the source of a lumber product is verified. This entails ‘tracking’ the lumber from the forest through all the steps of the production process until it reaches the end user. The ...

environmental audits

Building materials; Lumber

Environmental audits are a useful management tool that may form part of an overall environmental management system. This process entails a systematic and objective evaluation of how the organisation ...

regrowth forest

Building materials; Lumber

The National Forest Policy Statement defines regrowth forest as native forest containing a substantial proportion of trees that are in the younger growth phase and are actively growing in height and ...

ecosystem

Building materials; Lumber

A natural system that functions as unit. It is assemblage of living organisms together with their non-living environment in a particular area. Healthy ecosystems are necessary for maintaining and ...

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity 1992

Building materials; Lumber

The 1992 Convention deals at a global level with conserving, identifying and monitoring of biological diversity, its sustainable use and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from this ...

cell

Building materials; Lumber

In wood anatomy, a general term for the minute units of wood structure that have distinct walls and cavities, including wood fibers, vessel segments, and other elements of diverse structure and ...

labelling

Building materials; Lumber

Labeling is a term used to describe the use of a label or certification mark that indicates that the lumber product has been produced from a certified forest and the chain of custody verified. ...