News & Announcements
- New Streaming Video:
Forest Products Society 66th International Convention. Washington, DC. June 3-5, 2012.
- Board of Directors Meeting Minutes and Annual Report are now available.
- CORRIM poster featured at the Forest Products Society Annual Meeting
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Credits
Producer - Matthew McLaughlin, University of Washington
Narration - Brian Boyle, Northwest Environmental Forum
Music - "In the Field" by Jason Shaw @ audionautix.com
Images - Morguefile.com, Open Clip Art Library, RTI Image Archive
Our Mission
The Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM) seeks to establish, support, and manage research and education programs relating to renewable industrial materials focused on the environmental impact of the production, use, and disposal of wood and other bio-based materials.
The intent is to create:
- A consistent database to evaluate the environmental performance of wood and alternative materials from resource regeneration or extraction to end use and disposal, i.e., from "cradle to grave".
- A framework for evaluating life-cycle environmental and economic impacts.
- Source data for many users, including resource managers, manufacturers, architects, engineers, environmental protection and energy analysts, and policy specialists.
- An organizational framework to obtain the best science and peer review.