Abstract
The use of biogenic renewable resources in the Dutch building sector is still limited. As expanded use of renewable resources as a building material is environmentally interesting, this thesis will deal with three biogenic natural resources that may find expanded application in buildings. The first four chapters deal with wood and the fifth chapter with hemp and reed. The total wood use in the Netherlands is the subject of the first chapter. An analysis is made of sectors in the economy that are important consumers of wood. Options are presented to reduce the total amount of wood used in the Dutch economy. Also propositions are made for a shift of wood use towards high quality applications. The second chapter deals with the declining wood use in single-family dwellings in the last decades, in contrast with a recently started project by the Dutch government to expand the wood use in building by 20%. Using poplar wood for purlins is an example of an appropriate and high quality application of poplar wood, which is now mainly used for pallets and other products with a short life time and low quality demands. In chapter 3 six options for the use of poplar wood
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Fraanje, P J
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Fraanje, P J.
Renewable resources for building materials.
Netherlands: N. p.,
1998.
Web.
Fraanje, P J.
Renewable resources for building materials.
Netherlands.
Fraanje, P J.
1998.
"Renewable resources for building materials."
Netherlands.
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abstractNote = {The use of biogenic renewable resources in the Dutch building sector is still limited. As expanded use of renewable resources as a building material is environmentally interesting, this thesis will deal with three biogenic natural resources that may find expanded application in buildings. The first four chapters deal with wood and the fifth chapter with hemp and reed. The total wood use in the Netherlands is the subject of the first chapter. An analysis is made of sectors in the economy that are important consumers of wood. Options are presented to reduce the total amount of wood used in the Dutch economy. Also propositions are made for a shift of wood use towards high quality applications. The second chapter deals with the declining wood use in single-family dwellings in the last decades, in contrast with a recently started project by the Dutch government to expand the wood use in building by 20%. Using poplar wood for purlins is an example of an appropriate and high quality application of poplar wood, which is now mainly used for pallets and other products with a short life time and low quality demands. In chapter 3 six options for the use of poplar wood in purlins are evaluated. These vary from hardly processed wood to the intensively processed laminated poplar veneer wood. The final chapters four and five are devoted to the cascading of pine wood, hemp and reed, in order to make use of the full potential of the resource and to reduce pressure on agriculture, forests and nature. Biogenic renewables, grown by means of the sun, water and soil, supplying earth with oxygen and storing carbon, deserve a more important position in the resource use for building materials and in our society in general. By decreasing the total amount of primary resources used for building materials (increasing use intensity and reuse of buildings, detachable building methods and cascading building materials) and by expanding the share of building materials derived from environmentally sound produced renewable resources, building activities will become more sustainable. refs.}
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title = {Renewable resources for building materials}
author = {Fraanje, P J}
abstractNote = {The use of biogenic renewable resources in the Dutch building sector is still limited. As expanded use of renewable resources as a building material is environmentally interesting, this thesis will deal with three biogenic natural resources that may find expanded application in buildings. The first four chapters deal with wood and the fifth chapter with hemp and reed. The total wood use in the Netherlands is the subject of the first chapter. An analysis is made of sectors in the economy that are important consumers of wood. Options are presented to reduce the total amount of wood used in the Dutch economy. Also propositions are made for a shift of wood use towards high quality applications. The second chapter deals with the declining wood use in single-family dwellings in the last decades, in contrast with a recently started project by the Dutch government to expand the wood use in building by 20%. Using poplar wood for purlins is an example of an appropriate and high quality application of poplar wood, which is now mainly used for pallets and other products with a short life time and low quality demands. In chapter 3 six options for the use of poplar wood in purlins are evaluated. These vary from hardly processed wood to the intensively processed laminated poplar veneer wood. The final chapters four and five are devoted to the cascading of pine wood, hemp and reed, in order to make use of the full potential of the resource and to reduce pressure on agriculture, forests and nature. Biogenic renewables, grown by means of the sun, water and soil, supplying earth with oxygen and storing carbon, deserve a more important position in the resource use for building materials and in our society in general. By decreasing the total amount of primary resources used for building materials (increasing use intensity and reuse of buildings, detachable building methods and cascading building materials) and by expanding the share of building materials derived from environmentally sound produced renewable resources, building activities will become more sustainable. refs.}
place = {Netherlands}
year = {1998}
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