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Embodied Carbon – the key questions
How to reduce embodied carbon in social housing developments? This article highlights key questions and answers for strategic leadership teams.
Making the Foundational Economy happen – with joinery
What if a group of independent joiners could produce a Welsh timber window that meets all requirements for the social housing sector in Wales? Here’s…
Home-Grown Homes Updates – December 2020
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…
Mandatory quality standards for new homes – WKW response
Woodknowledge Wales has responded to Welsh Government’s consultation on the standards new homes will need to meet in the future. We think the climate emergency […]
How to build a Welsh Wood Economy
Why would it be beneficial for Welsh society to build a wood economy? A new report takes a closer look and analyses the economic and […]
Valorising the potential of the Welsh green gold reserve
A personal reflection by Dainis Dauksta, technical manager, Woodklnowledge Wales Conifers grow superbly across many of the microclimates and soil types found in Wales, producing […]
Home-Grown Homes Updates – September
With just a few months left of the Home-Grown Homes Project we are now focused on pulling together all findings from the research into usable […]
How do you compare building standards and net zero operational targets?
Good Homes Alliance and Woodknowledge Wales commissioned an energy modelling report to compare different low energy building standards. The paper seeks to illustrate how the […]
Are modern UK forests suited to help restore biodiversity?
Can productive forests provide both carbon storage and enhanced biodiversity? In the public debate across national media and the twittersphere this seems unlikely. Confor’s new […]
Home-Grown Homes Project updates- July 2020
A new timber frame manufacturing group, an extension request for project partner Cardiff Met and trying out an overheating risk assessment tool. Home-Grown Homes project […]