Workshop Iceland
Course material
Ólafur Eggertsson
Wood anatomy and properties
This slideshow is in English and deals with where trees come from and what they need for growth and maintenance, their characteristics and structure. It is about what wood really is, the structure of wood, annual rings, wood cells and wood fibers. Also about the properties and utilization of the wood.
Björn Kallander
Introduction to small scale industrial wood drying
This slideshow is in English and covers the basic principle of wood drying. It defines measures of moisture content of wood, shrinking and swelling and various drying methods. It covers the main phases of the drying schedule. It also discusses different drying methods and tools for drying, their qualities and drawbacks.
Dan Johansson
Kvalitetsskogsbruk
This slideshow is in Swedish and is an extract from Dan’s book of the same name, which deals with quality forests. Here he explains what is important to be able to practice quality forestry and what the benefits are from practicing it.
Bent Jensen
Silviculture-Planting and Maintaining
This slideshow is in English and is about why we plant forests, where and for what purpose and tells how we can achieve the highest quality by deciding at the beginning
what we expect at the end.
Ólafur Eggertsson
Gæði alaskaaspar
This slideshow is in English and is a description of the origin of the Alaskan Poplar, its features and characteristics. Also the results of testing whether it could be used as a structural timber.
Ólafur Eggertsson
Forest history of Iceland
This slideshow slideshow is in English and Icelandic and starts with the formation of Iceland 30 million years ago, the flora and environment then and until present time.
Johan Vessby & Sigurður Ómarsson
Multistorey Buildings
This slideshow is in English and tells about what needs to be done when building multi-storey buildings from timber, e.g. with respect to earthquakes and/or storms.
Tomas Ivarsson
Timber Quality Sorting
This slideshow is in English and tells about what part of conifer the timber comes from and how to saw it and sort for different uses.
The slideshow is based on the new book Gæðafjalir Viðskiptaflokkun á timbri úr barrtrjám which is one of the main outputs of the TreProX project.
Eiríkur Þorsteinsson
Sögun og flokkun á timbri í göngubrú yfir Þjórsá
This is a slide show which shows the progress of the project Pedestrian bridge over the river Þjórsá in Iceland. From choosing the logs, how they were sawn and sorted for this project; the first Icelandic pedestrian bridge made entirely of wood.
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.