Wood Sustainability
Constructions made of wood are one of the keys to promoting sustainability. This lesson focuses on some approaches to sustainability that can improve the promotion of wood-based products. If we consider the construction sector, which is characterised by products with a long life cycle, we can consider the CO2 naturally contained in these products as a permanent sequestration, as the time horizon exceeds 50 years and perhaps even 100 years. For this reason, the CO2 that they contain can be considered permanently removed from the atmosphere.
The webinar is organised into the following thematic sections:
- climate change
- the role of wood in the ecological transition
- the wood supply chain
- calculation of the amount of CO2 within a wood product
- the end-of-life of wood
- environmental product declaration of certain wood derivatives for structural use
Giacomo Goli
An associate professor at the University of Florence, he holds a degree in Forest Sciences. In 2003, he obtained his PhD in Wood Science at the University of Florence and in “Mécanique des métiers de l’Ingénieur” at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in Cluny, France. His main fields of research include cultural wood heritage (conservation, monitoring and control of environmental conditions, analysis of manufactured products), wood processing (modelling of forces and shear strength during processing with different grain orientations), development of new wood-based materials (modified wood and modified wood-based materials). He is involved in regional and national research on the quality of wood and wood-based products and international research on wood processing and modification technologies.
Marco Togni
An associate professor at the University of Florence since 2001, he holds a degree in Forest Sciences from the University of Florence and a PhD in Wood Science from the same university in 1995. His main fields of research concern wood for structural use: evaluation of the mechanical properties of ancient timber structural elements and structural systems, in situ inspection and diagnosis, characterisation of timber for structural use. He is involved in regional and national research on timber quality, uses and characterisation.
Paola Mazzanti
A researcher at the University of Florence, she holds a degree in Forest Sciences from the University of Florence and a PhD in Wood Science and Technology from the same university from 2008. Since then, she has worked on the conservation of cultural wood heritage, studying the hygro-mechanical behaviour of wood, wood-water relations, the rheological behaviour of wood and its bio-deterioration. She collaborates with national and international institutions in research for the conservation of cultural wooden heritage.
