Performance standards for wood in construction - delivering customer service life needs

Objective

The project objective is to kick-start the development of new standards to enable the service life specification of wood and wood based materials for construction. This is critical to ensure the future sustainable use of European forests, to ensure customers of wood products get satisfactory and reliable products and to provide supplementary evidence for life cycle evaluations of construction products. This supporting action will utilise the wealth of research data that exists to analyse material test standards (CEN TC38) for their ability to inform on service life and performance. Historical field data will be reanalysed to extract more information on performance and this will be brought alongside service life expectation information gathered from various user groups. It will connect the material resistance with the moisture risk to inform on service life expectations. The task objectives included:

Confirming material resistance measure
Confirming a moisture risk measure
Interpreting field test results with respect to early decay and predicting the service life
Reviewing present test protocols (EN 599) – is updating necessary?
Proposing improved test methods (mainly field tests) and possible new tests
Providing a draft interface standard that considers service life

The outcome will begin to focus on delivery of reliable products into the hands of specifiers and users of wood products to ensure the future growth of low carbon construction systems made form wood.

Field of science

• /engineering and technology/civil engineering/construction engineering
• /engineering and technology/civil engineering/architecture engineering/sustainable architecture
• /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/energy and fuels/renewable energy
• /engineering and technology/materials engineering/paper and wood

Programme(s)

• FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

Topic(s)

• NMP.2012.4.0-2 - Support for standardisation needs

Call for proposal

FP7-NMP-2012-CSA-6
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Funding Scheme

CSA-SA - Support actions

Coordinator

BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT LTD

Address

Bucknalls Lane Garston
WD25 9XX Watford
United Kingdom

Activity type

Other

EU contribution

€ 131 459

Administrative Contact

Edward Suttie (Dr.)

Participants (7)

UNIVERSITEIT GENT

Belgium

EU contribution

€ 58 850

Address

Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 25
9000 Gent

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Joris Van Acker (Prof.)

RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB

Sweden

EU contribution

€ 57 566

Address

Brinellgatan 4
501 15 Boras

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Finn Englund (Dr.)

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER

Germany

EU contribution

€ 53 072

Address

Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Christian Brischke (Dr.)

FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Spain

EU contribution

€ 42 179

Address

Parque Cientifico Y Tecnologico De Gipuzkoa Paseo Mikeletegi 2
20009 Donostia/san Sebastian (Gipuzkoa)

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

David Lorenzo (Mr.)

MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University

Sweden

EU contribution

€ 56 282

Address

Paradisgatan 5C
22100 Lund

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Sven Thelandersson (Prof.)

INSTITUT TECHNOLOGIQUE FCBA (FORETCELLULOSE BOIS-CONSTRUCTION AMEUBLEMENT)

France

EU contribution

€ 55 426

Address

10 Rue De Galilee
77420 Champs Sur Marne

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Eric Heisel (Dr.)

VYZKUMNY A VYVOJOVY USTAV DREVARSKYPRAHA SP

Czechia

EU contribution

€ 40 981

Address

Na Florenci 7-9 Cp 1685-1686
111 71 Praha

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Petr Ptáček (Dr.)