Workshop Sweden
Course material
Linnæus University
LNU presentation
This slideshow is in English and is an introduction to the university’s activities and purpose
Harald Sall
Sweden Forestry
This slideshow is in English and starts with the ice sheet covering a part of Sweden 14000 years ago, the first farmers 6000 years ago. How the land owners reformed in the Middle Ages and cultivation shifts.
Per Darell
Naturvårdtrillisland
This slideshow is in Swedish and is a reminder of how to respect and interact with the forest. It is a comparison of natural forest and production forest from a nature conservation perspective.
Andreas Arvidsson
Biometria
This slideshow is in Swedish and points out that our role is also to convey and refine business-critical information between buyers and sellers of forest industrial raw materials, to streamline the administration between the parties and develop service services for the benefit of our members. Biometrics contributes to the fact that business can be carried out with high confidence on an accurate basis through impartial measurement and accounting.
Björn Kallander
Torkning
This slideshow is in Swedish and is about damage to wood caused by the drying process and how to reduce the damage. Measurement of moisture ratio, cracks and deformation-caused moisture ratio gradient and residual stresses. Drying quality and systematic improvement work.
Jonaz Nilsson
Verktyg slipmaterial
This slideshow is in Swedish and is a slidshow from the Linnæus Univeristy with very descriptive images. Definition of how saw blades are needed in different situations and how it pays to choose the right tools and how to maintain the tools.
Lars Blomqvist
Innovation in the Swedish carpentry-furniture and wood construction industry
This slideshow is in English and is about innovation within the Swedish carpentry, furniture and wood construction industry as the name suggests. The difference between research and innovation is explained. Assembly connections, laminated wood, glue, and modular systems are also mentioned.
Sigurður Ómarsson
Modern träbyggnadsteknik
This slideshow is in English and Swedish and focuses on Wood construction systems – how to use wood and its different alternatives on the one hand and modelling and testing of light-frame timber modules on the other.
About
This project aims to create the foundation for an emerging small-scale, forest-based industry in Iceland by learning from experiences of other Scandinavian partners.
The Agricultural University of Iceland and the Iceland Forest Service have followed closely the forest development in Iceland over past decades. The history of forestry in Iceland is rather short since the first woods were only planted about 100 years ago. But growing timber for harvesting only began around the 1980s, when farmers started planned forestry with governmental support schemes.
Today – 40 years later it has become an urgent matter to formulate and implement coordinated quality assessment guides for the main tree species used in Icelandic forestry.
The creation of wood-processing knowledge on an Iceland-specific level will be the foundation to kick off this development. Wider possibilities of using Icelandic quality timber will also serve to make the forest industry more sustainable. Therefore a main outcome of this innovative project will be to build up wood-processing education in Iceland and furthermore transfer and adapt existing European timber standards to Icelandic circumstances in close cooperation with experienced partners from countries with a long wood processing history (Sweden and Denmark).
The exciting training and teaching materials from Denmark and Sweden will be updated and adapted to Icelandic circumstances. All of the materials will be adjusted to digital learning principles.
Further project outcome will be the revision of a curriculum that enables the transfer of Icelandic lessons learned from kickstarting commercial timberlands to third countries who are facing similar challenges.