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It is exciting times for tall wooden buildings in today’s cities. City population growth, space availability and infrastructure pressures are contributing to the need for innovative buil…
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Forest managers will be able to gauge the likely effect of climate change on growing conditions in their specific areas with a new interactive online tool developed by the CSIRO with funding f…
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Across Australia, award-winning architect Peter Maddison, host of Grand Designs Australia, is entering the living rooms and devices of hundreds of thousands of people, with news about the…
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A new construction method developed by Swiss engineers is using robotic arms to fabricate and assemble the wooden parts of buildings so geometrically complex they would previously have bee…
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A new project is experimenting with a special mix of mushroom spores to help saplings better survive in hostile conditions. A UK group is planting 20,000 saplings in Scotland with special roo…
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New research out of Finland has successfully showcased how plant cell culture technology can be used to develop natural compounds with attributes that could potentially revolutionise the …
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Meet nanowood: a new material with insulation properties capable of blocking at least 10 degrees more heat than Styrofoam that’s also stronger and more environmentally friendly. Develope…
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A team of researchers have found that trees grown in an environment surrounded by different species produce more wood than those surrounded by trees of the same species. At a 50-hectare expe…