Portable CLT apartments and nails made from wood!

October 11, 2017
Category: Today's Takeaway

If you share your plumbing-based functions, your three-storey micro apartment can become portable. New CLT micro-living spaces provide neo-archaic biourbanism spacial modules that can be erected overnight! If that doesn’t make you feel good, Austrian fibre producers are launching a new luxury fabric made entirely from sustainable wood that will mimic silk. And, putting the final nail in the feel-good coffin—Beck Fastener has invented Lignoloc, wooden nails for use in pneumatic nail guns!

A recent announcement by the BC government to review the professional reliance model in the natural resource sector has generated some heated discussion. Today, Christine Gelowitz, the CEO of the Association of BC Forest Professionals writes in the Vancouver Sun that her association is willing to work with government to ensure that the system meets the needs of British Columbians. 

Finally, the fire stories continue. In California, fires dominate headlines, we have one for you. And while BC pays its outstanding wildfire bills, the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction is hosting a webinar about protecting buildings from exposure to wildfire

—Sandy McKellar, Tree Frog Editor

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