Developing new demand for wood in mid- and high-rise buildings to promote carbon sequestration in cities
Plus, a manufacturer of office furniture, has launched its free-address desk "minimo lots" made from domestic wood [...]
The expansion of wooden construction in Japan is driven by policy demands such as decarbonization and the use of domestic timber. However, at the site level, another crucial factor cannot be overlooked [...]
Neba Village and the Neba Village Forestry Cooperative conducted a natural drying comparison test for large-diameter timber, "Neba Scal [...]," to utilize the village's abundant large-diameter timber.
The environment surrounding the forestry industry is becoming increasingly challenging, with factors such as sluggish demand for domestic timber and population decline. On the other hand, decarbonization and economic security perspectives [...]
The Forestry Agency is moving toward reflecting the amount of carbon fixed in buildings through wood utilization in greenhouse gas emissions calculations under the SHK system (Sustainable Housing and Construction [...]
The "Ichigao Condominium Project (tentative name)" promoted by the Yokohama Municipal Housing Supply Corporation has recently been awarded the "2025 Excellent [...]" by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Obayashi Corporation has been working on BIM (Burn Depth Calculation) for wooden structures in accordance with the Fire Collapse Prevention Performance Verification Method and the Evacuation Collapse Prevention Performance Verification Method.
Life Design Kabaya, whose core business is the sale of wooden houses, is promoting a "regional recycling-oriented housing supp [...]" promoted under an industry-government-academia collaboration in Okayama Prefecture.
Shelter and Toda Corporation have developed COO [...], a hybrid wood fire-resistant component that uses reinforced gypsum board and wood as fire-resistant covering material for steel pipe columns.
Can trees change the shape of cities? As a general construction company, we are seriously tackling such a question from the standpoint of [...].
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who serves as leader of the National Governors' Association's Project Team for the Utilization of Domestic Timber, announced on August 25 that she has decided to hold a meeting with Koizumi Shinjiro, the governor of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [...]...
The Forestry Agency is holding an exhibition "Wo [...]" at the Future Life Village at Expo 2010 Osaka-Kansai to introduce outstanding examples of the use of Japanese lumber.
Total demand for lumber has been declining for a long time, especially for construction lumber, the main use of domestic lumber, which has shrunk due to the number of single-family housing starts and demographic [...].
As Chairman of the Platinum Initiative Network and former President of the University of Tokyo, I have long been thinking about the future of Japan. Now, the world [...].
The Forestry Agency will hold an exhibition "W [...]" at the 2025 Japan International Expo (Osaka-Kansai Expo) to introduce outstanding examples of the use of Japanese timber at the Expo.
In the fourth installment of our survey on attitudes toward wooden condominiums using a sei-katsu-sha questionnaire, we asked, "What spaces in a home would you expect to incorporate wood [...].