AHEC: the new era of wood. "Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods"
23/12/2023.
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metalocus, CRISTINA RODRÍGUEZ
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With the "Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods", the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) inspires builders, architects, designers, and end users on the use of wood, a material that is both traditional and hi-tech.
Although it was one of the first materials used by man for construction, today wood plays an innovative role, capable of responding to social, environmental, and architectural challenges. An ancient material par excellence, wood is also surprisingly new, thanks to a sustainable and diversified vision of its use.
Although it was one of the first materials used by man for construction, today wood plays an innovative role, capable of responding to social, environmental, and architectural challenges. An ancient material par excellence, wood is also surprisingly new, thanks to a sustainable and diversified vision of its use.
AHEC Photo. Photograph by Petr Krejci.
American hardwood forests.
American hardwood lumber yard.
Freshly sawn timber.
Alison Brooks Architects, The Smile. AHEC American tulipwood. Photograph by Jon Cardwell.
Wood is a technologically advanced natural product that offers concrete solutions to many of our current problems: it is renewable by itself and has a manufacturing process that minimizes environmental impact. It can be molded and colored, adapting to a variety of projects, and has a high strength-to-weight ratio, allowing for a wide spectrum of applications. As a carbon-storing material, it is a highly sustainable alternative to other CO2-emitting materials.
Aware of all this, AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council), a leader in the American wood export sector, with a continuous commitment to the dissemination of sustainable practices, has presented the "Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods" with the aim of inspiring professionals in the sector, providing them with technical information and creative inspiration with which to make informed and conscious decisions about materials, ensuring a greener future for our forests and the entire supply chain.
The guide emphasizes the need to use all varieties of wood that forests provide to make more sustainable use of the resource; and also illustrates less used species such as elm or linden. Finally, the publication discusses the thermal modification of US hardwoods that expands their use, transforming them into engineered wood products.
AHEC "Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods".
About the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC)
For more than 30 years, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has been at the forefront of hardwood promotion in Europe, successfully building a distinctive and creative brand for American hardwoods.
AHEC supported groundbreaking creative design projects such as Natural Connections, Slow, Connected, Discovered, The Workshop of Dreams, and Endless Stair The Smile, which demonstrate the performance potential of such sustainable materials, as well as providing a valuable source of inspiration.
AHEC has pioneered the creation of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) for hardwoods, an approach that has since been adopted by other industries to measure a range of impacts: primary energy demand (from renewable and non-renewable resources renewable); global warming potential; acidification potential; eutrophication potential; and photochemical ozone creation potential.
Aware of all this, AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council), a leader in the American wood export sector, with a continuous commitment to the dissemination of sustainable practices, has presented the "Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods" with the aim of inspiring professionals in the sector, providing them with technical information and creative inspiration with which to make informed and conscious decisions about materials, ensuring a greener future for our forests and the entire supply chain.
The guide emphasizes the need to use all varieties of wood that forests provide to make more sustainable use of the resource; and also illustrates less used species such as elm or linden. Finally, the publication discusses the thermal modification of US hardwoods that expands their use, transforming them into engineered wood products.
AHEC "Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods".
About the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC)
For more than 30 years, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has been at the forefront of hardwood promotion in Europe, successfully building a distinctive and creative brand for American hardwoods.
AHEC supported groundbreaking creative design projects such as Natural Connections, Slow, Connected, Discovered, The Workshop of Dreams, and Endless Stair The Smile, which demonstrate the performance potential of such sustainable materials, as well as providing a valuable source of inspiration.
AHEC has pioneered the creation of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) for hardwoods, an approach that has since been adopted by other industries to measure a range of impacts: primary energy demand (from renewable and non-renewable resources renewable); global warming potential; acidification potential; eutrophication potential; and photochemical ozone creation potential.
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