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Two days on the wood, for architects, in Construtec 2012

03/04/2012

3 April 2012

The next 8 May 2012, in the frame of the International Week of the Construction of the Fair of Construtec in Madrid, will take place two days for architects interested in the wood:

Sustainability of the constructive process: an opportunity for the products of the wood
Design and structural calculation with wood. Case of study: Timber Wave

The days are a conjoint initiative of Maderia, Spanish Society of the Wood (www.maderia.es), AEIM, Spanish Association of the Trade and Industry of the Wood (www.aeim.org), and AHEC-American Hardwood Export Council (www.americanhardwood.org).

In the context of a politics of improvement of the sustainability of the process of edificación, the wood presents environingingmental values that have to be had very in account by the prescriptor since they can help to reduce the broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero and of products contaminantes so much in the phase of construction as in the back of use and, even, of deconstrucción.

In the breast of the EU have established rules of common game that is precise to know, by what exist already methods harmonised to effect so much the statement of the environingingmental properties of the products like the environingingmental evaluation of the buildings.

The first day consists of four presentations and effects an environingingmental approximation on the material and informs to the listener on the state and characteristic of the European normalisation in the matter.

In this regard, AHEC is investing long and resources to show the big environingingmental profits of the species of leafy of United States through the Analysis of the Cycle of Life, key subject in the presentation that will do the General Director of AHEC, Mike Snow.

The second day consists of a presentation to charge of Andrew Lawrence specialist in calculation of wooden structures and director of the wooden section of ARUP, company of consultores, engineers and designers that is behind many of the most innovative buildings and sustainable of the world.

‘Timber wave', the impactante ‘wooden Wave' in American red oak designed by the study of architecture To THE_To for the edition 2011 of the Festival of Design of London, adorned during the month of September happened the main entrance of the Museum Victoria and Albert of London.