Market Access

The Market Access category covers research projects that evaluate national and international market trends to enable industry to develop business and industry development strategies.
 
These projects develop and improve products matched to market needs, and continue to expand markets for wood products.
 
Key goals include creating greater value in wood products by developing knowledge and technology to increase timber construction in residential, commercial and industrial buildings; appearance grade timber products and markets; and sustainable wood products.
 
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New applications of timber in non-traditional market segments, high rise residential and non-residential (commercial) buildings

Most of the timber used in the Australian built environment is presently for low‐rise residential construction. This market share is under constant erosion from competitive systems; therefore, entry into non‐traditional sectors would benefit the industry through a wider market portfolio of building type applications, and a higher value product system development.
 

Interim Industry Standard Recycled Timber – Visually Stress Graded Recycled Decorative Products

Recycled wood has many aesthetic and environmental benefits but until now there has been no grading standard for recycled timber being used in both structural applications and non-structural decorative timbers. These Interim Standards provide recycled timber manufacturers, suppliers and users requirements for visually grading recycled hardwood timber intended for use in both structural and decorative applications.

Accelerated Testing of Window Joinery made from Eucalypts

This project aimed to improve the durability of ash eucalypts as window joinery through preservative treatment, by demonstrating improved performance compared to untreated windows, and similar performance to light organic solvent preservative (LOSP) treated Shorea spp. (meranti) windows. In addition, the performance of the latest azole-containing LOSP formulation when used to protect Shorea spp. was assessed, as was the likelihood that the various preservative treatments would protect eucalypt sapwood from lyctine borer.
 

Wood recovery and recycling: A source book for Australia

The source book provides a ‘map’ for transforming wood waste into wood resource. It begins by presenting an overview of wood waste, including the definition of wood waste, types of wood waste materials, different sources of wood waste and the different physical forms of wood waste materials. 
 

Guide to the specification, installation and use of preservative treated engineered wood products

 This user-friendly guide provides information on best practices for the selection, preservative treatment, design, installation and finishing of Engineered Wood Products (EWP) to ensure product fitness for purpose and performance over a range of applications, hazard exposures, and design lives. The target users are designers, builders, engineers, specifiers and other users of EWPs.

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