100% Galician Eucalyptus globulus timber built home, both outdoors and indoors . No concrete, no brick, no metal joints, just Eucalyptus wood. (Click image to enlarge)A new divulgative publication has been released with the joint effort of CIS-Madera and Clúster de la Madera de Galicia. Along its 40 pages you can see a selection of recent architectural works done with Galician Eucalyptus timber and an inviting welcome to discover the possibilites of this timber for both outdoors and indoors uses.
Ongoing research has allowed a considerable improvement in technologies needed for a good industrial processing of this type of timber into high quality finished products, and also the discovery of new technologies that allow access to new market segments and final uses.
Ongoing research has allowed a considerable improvement in technologies needed for a good industrial processing of this type of timber into high quality finished products, and also the discovery of new technologies that allow access to new market segments and final uses.
Download this free divulgative catalogue and enjoy excellent photography and fantastic examples of Galician plantation grown Tasmanian Blue Gum eucalypt timber uses as structural, carpentry and furniture elements.
GIT's Eucalyptology Topics
© 2007 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.
GIT's Eucalyptology Topics
© 2007 Gustavo Iglesias Trabado. Please contact us if you want to use all or part of this text and photography elsewhere. We like to share, but we do not like rudeness.
Posted by Heather Milligan on 11/10/2007, 9:50 am, in reply to "100% Eucalyptus timber built home in Galicia (with photos)"
ReplyDeleteWow what an amazing set of photos....makes you want to build a new house in E. globulus.
I have sent the link onto a few 'eucalyptus' friends, the coments have been 'Brilliant stuff' and 'was a bity miffed that there was not a "mediterranian beauty" reclining on the plywood beach seat...what is wrong with the Spanish...dont they realise that kiwi (New Zealand) blokes like looking at the beautiful wooden recliners and their contents??' and 'this is a fantastic example of what we could/should be doing here in New Zealand'. Thanks again Gus for bring this to our attention.
Heather
Posted by Gus on 11/11/2007, 5:33 am, in reply to "Re: 100% Eucalyptus timber built home in Galicia (with photos)"
ReplyDeleteI shall forward the comments to the authors of this booklet. They will appreciate!
This would be a huge topic with many important subtopics and details, but maybe the general message is that there is a double path.
One way from the trees to the product, from timber properties ("what the trees can give") to those things that can be done in a factory ("what we can make of them"). There are limits in both angles.
The other way, from industrial process to product, from grade recoveries ("what we could get well done from that timber") to those things that are or are not viable to be done ("what we could get done and make it become a world class product").
If people were told 25 years ago that some of these final products could be achieved with E. grandis, E. urograndis, E. saligna, E. globulus or E. nitens "fast grown" plantation timbers (to name a few examples) the levels of skepticism among growers but also industry would be quite noticeable. Sometimes you only believe it when you see it
It is a different timber world to that one of "slow grown" logs from natural forests or fast grown conifers (pines and friends). But if it is possible here, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa or Australia (to name a few), I do not see why it could not be possible in Kiwiland. What is sure is that it needs of joint effort from both growers and industry. You have all the essential pieces of the puzzle there already: suitable land and climate, skilled growers, experience growing different eucalypts for many years, a sizeable timber resource of this type, and a world class timber industry. It could be done