First Series: Digitalisation of forest management, inventory and monitoring.
During the first Forestry Speed Dating series, that ran during October 2021 - March 2022, you could discover new digital solutions to improve forest management, sustainable forest operations and efficient supply. Find out more about digital tools that support forest managers’ decision-making as well as communicating what you do to the public and engaging their input.
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Second series: Bio-based solutions for sustainable construction.
Our second Forestry Speed Dating Series that started in June 2022 and is currently still running, allows attendees to discover the latest innovations related to timber and hybrid construction. Find out more about building materials and techniques that allow to convert the construction sector from a carbon source to a carbon sink.
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Was an innovation or theme of your interest included in a past Forestry Speed Dating event but did you not attend? Do not worry! Every presented innovation is featured in a factsheet with the collaboration opportunities highlighted. Do you think you could be the potential partner the speaker was looking for? Then contact the innovator through the contact information included in the factsheets.
The project’s work on “Design of timber building for deconstruction and reuse” focuses on the primary design of buildings and ways to facilitate deconstruction. The project has developed the first version of the Design for deconstruction and adaptability indicator system.
100détours seeks to find a second life for the wood of old doors and windows in France. This wood, with excellent qualities, allows for many reuses. The proposed solutions range from glued-laminated panels, acoustic panels, furniture and sunshades, up to micro-architecture: garden sheds, bicycle shelters, and playgrounds.
The project aims at developing solutions for building with wood that are stackable, scalable, adaptable and reusable, using CLT Panels made with Irish Sitka Spruce.
A recent product from Garnica is G-brick, an insulating structural panel with high mechanical performance recommended for the construction system in passive or high-performance energy-efficient projects.
Avant Wood provides innovative Thermo Mechanical Timber Modification solutions (TMTM™) and associated process control software and hardware technology. With Avantwood´s modification units, small-diameter timber can be used commercially in high value added engineered wood products
Forest HQ brings together forest valuation, management and harvesting in a single online platform. The Forest Valuation module of ForestHQ allows simple, automated forest valuation. Dendrometric field data can be collected using the Arboreal App.
Arbonaut ProMS is a project management system that is developed with its users for forest operation planning, implementation and monitoring. It is used as light ERP system by SMEs providing forest services, maintaining forest roads or acquiring bioenergy.
Festmeter offers vitality analyses with regards to bark beetle detection in conifer forests using satellite imagery. The service is designed to help prevent excessive damage in the forest. Festmeter identifies the majority of beetle infestations.
WoodsApp consists of a smartphone app for forest owners and a web application for forestry organisations that allows direct communication between both groups of actors. The forest owners use WoodsApp to locate their forests plots, retrieve information about them, receive notifications from the forest manager and send geo-located messages to them.
MOTI is a free application, specifically designed for forest inventory. MOTI allows forestry professionals to capture the key dendrometric variables as a single measurement combined in a sample plot, or at the level of a stand inventory with automatic calculation of the error range of the estimations.
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