Timber Quality for the Construction Industry

Paper i proceeding, 2010

The Action E53 focuses on timber quality and aims to improve existing methods and techniques for fast, accurate quality assessment at every link in the forestry wood chain. The development of novel methods and techniques is another aim. This presentation gives a short background to timber quality in the past, aims with respect to timber quality in this Action, the results of the internet survey conducted last year and some conclusions about what needs to be done in the future.