blackwoods

WoodSolutions is purely an advisory body and we don't produce timber products, so we would not have a use for your blackwood. Its marketability will depend on a number of factors including the quality of the logs, for example whether the trees were pruned to produce high quality 'clear' (knot-free) wood. Other factors include whether you are located near a sawmill, preferably one with kiln-drying facilities, how many trees you have, accessability of the site to harvest the logs and so on.

The Role of Wood Products in Zero Carbon Buildings

Technical Design Guide 55 - The Role of Wood Products in Zero Carbon Buildings
This guide focuses on the role of wood products in zero carbon buildings, and is a valuable resource for design professionals wanting to specify wood products in sustainable buildings. While not a comprehensive analysis, the intent of this publication is to provide high-level guidance on a broad range of topics relevant to the built environment, including: carbon in forestry and wood products; biogenic and fossil carbon; embodied greenhouse gas emissions in buildings and designing for net zero; embodied carbon policies; and green building frameworks and tools.

fire certification for new product into the Australian market

At WoodSolutions we have a number of 'generic' fire reports, ie. they can be applied to different combinations of standard wood-based materials regardless of brand names. For example, Regulatory Information Report RIR 45982.13 titled Fire Hazard Properties of Timber Veneers on Standard MDF and Particleboard Substrates in Accordance with AS5637.1:2015 covers any type of wood veneer up to 1120 kg/m3, applied to MDF or particleboard of 6mm minimum thickness - refer Table 4.

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Darwin Stringybark

We don't have any experience of sourcing Darwin stringybark, nor of fair trading considerations, as it is not a major commercial species - at least in the southern States. We assume it will be used unseasoned since a column of any significant size would take quite a while to dry. During the drying process shrinkage is likely to be of the order of 5% (across the grain, negligible lengthwise). It's also advisable to avoid the centre when sawing the log as material close to the centre is inclined to split.

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