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Joensuu Lighthouse wins the 2019 Wood Award

28.11.2019

The 2019 Wood Award will be awarded to Joensuu Lighthouse. Its architectural design is by Arcadia Oy Arkkitehtitoimisto, with architect SAFA Samuli Sallinen as the chief designer. The award was granted at Finnish national Wood Day on November 28th in Helsinki

Tuupala primary school and day-care centre wins the 2018 Wood Award

2.11.2018

The 2018 Wood Award goes to Tuupala primary school and day-care centre, with Antti Karsikas of alt Architects Oy and Martti Karsikas of Arkkitehtitoimisto Karsikas Oy were responsible for the project's architectural design.

Acoustics play a big role in well-being

21.9.2018

A-Insinöörit’s planning manager, Jaana Jokitulppo, PhD, points out that although the importance of noise in peoples’ day-to-day well-being is known, construction projects still do not pay sufficient attention to acoustic solutions because acoustic design is not perceived to be a part of the overall design. In a sense, expertise in acoustics must be sold separately in every project and its benefits must be justified on the fact that acoustic solutions can already be integrated into a building in the design phase, which is just part of being cost effective.

The antibacterial properties of wood should be leveraged in construction

21.9.2018

The ability to bind moisture, the beneficial acoustic properties and thermal conductivity are well-known properties of wood, but now researchers are becoming interested in wood's antibacterial properties. For example, a comparison of cutting boards found that wooden boards repelled bacteria better than their plastic equivalents.

Wood's effects on well-being are a hot research topic in Europe

21.9.2018

Riina Muilu-Mäkelä, a senior researcher at Luke, the Natural Resources Institute of Finland, is conducting basic research on the health effects of wood. She also coordinates the Finnish Superwood project, which aims to identify the commercial market potential of wood in addition to its health effects. - Research on wood’s health effects is cross-disciplinary. The research team at the University of Tampere includes physicians, biologists and psychologists, architects and also experts in industrial economics.

Using wood as a construction material found to have positive effects on well-being

21.9.2018

Using wood as a construction material is drawing increased interest due to its potential effects on human well-being. Problems with indoor air, mildew and noise in buildings have increased the pressure for finding solutions to these problems as early as the building design phase. Multidisciplinary research on the factors associated with well-being is being conducted in Finland.

Vankkapuu Oy believes in good service and tailored products

28.8.2018

The wood product industry is often thought of as an industry with high volume. However, the industry also includes firms specialising in small production runs and customer-focused service operations. Vankkapuu Oy is a family business that has operated for over three decades. With operations in Simpele and Joutseno in the Finnish province of South Karelia, the company has found its place in the wood product manufacturing market through specialisation, flexibility in product manufacturing, customer-focused operations and ensured delivery.

CEO Berg of Puumerkki Oy: The industry needs to move towards more highly refined wood products

16.8.2018

The timber trade is in the midst of a structural change. Consumers are increasingly less interested in basic lumber and are demanding more finished products instead. "I want to push the processing industry towards a higher degree of refinement and product development and a larger appreciation of the domestic market," says Petrus Berg, the CEO of Puumerkki.

A hundred-year-old family business becomes a comprehensive supplier of industrial wood construction product components

10.8.2018

Koskisen Oy, which began its sawmill operations almost 110 years ago, has grown into a diversified wood processing company that processes all its procured wood into products ranging from bio-energy to industrial housing elements. Located in Kärkölä in Päijät-Häme, the company has a typical history for a Finnish wood industry company: it started with sawmill operations. The second generation was interested in expanding to new products, and the sawmill operations begun by Kalle Koskinen were soon extended to wood processing for the plywood, chipboard and construction industries. Now in its fourth generation, Koskisen Oy is a Finnish pioneer in the sawmill and wood panel industries, in thin plywood production and the manufacturing of element-based building construction components. The company has more than a thousand employees and turnover was EUR 270 million in 2017.

Metsä Wood's Open Source Wood construction system brings wood construction to the world market

3.8.2018

The Finnish wood processing industry's history of more than one hundred years traces back to its international orientation and its knowledge of the needs of the export market. Alongside the main products of pulp and paper, a strong construction-focused industry has emerged to produce particle board and plywood products for industrial construction needs.