Wood

Wood

How does wood help to mitigate climate change? With a healthy sustainable forest you can reduce the green gases emission, such as carbon dioxide, and store more carbon. An average tree can absorb 1 ton per 32ft2 CO2 and eject 3/4 of O2 per 32ft2, but when the tree gets older, lest carbon gets absorb, so when the tree discomposes, this carbon is release. But when we used the wood of these trees, for construction, the carbon stays trapped. Also is important to said that the amount of carbon dioxide that a tree absorb is more than the amount emitted in the entire process of making a wood product and shipping it to the construction side, so that is why wood is carbon negative. This only happen when the wood is from a healthy sustainable forest. Governments around the world are implementing policies that encourage the implement of wood in the construction sides.



Notes from Oral Presentation  Thermal, Electrical.
 * From the early beginning people has used wood for making houses, tools, weapons, furniture, artworks and paper.
 * Wood is an organic material that can be used as a fuel
 * Advantages: Potash storage building, salt storage domes, cooling towers, cheap, lightweight, moderately strong in compression and tension.
 * Disadvantages: Splinters,rots, swells and burns easily.
 * Physical Properties:Moisture Content, Shrinkage, Density, Permeability
 * Mechanical Properties: Elastic, Strength, Vibration