CORRIM REPORTS

Wood and Fiber Science

Journal of the Society of Wood Science and Technology

Volume 37: Special CORRIM Report

December 2005

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CORRIM has been given permission by the copyright holder, Society of Wood Science and Technology, to post the following PDF files on our website for online viewing and limited reprints.

2006 Publications List

EDITORIAL

• Documenting the environmental performance of wood building materials
  • Wilson, James B.

ARTICLES

• The environmental performance of renewable building materials in the context of residential construction
  • Perez-Garcia, John, Bruce Lippke, David Briggs, James B. Wilson, James Boyer, and Jaime Meil.
• Life-cycle analysis of wood products: Cradle-to-gate LCI of residential wood building materials
  • Puettmann, Maureen E., and James B. Wilson.
• Life-cycle impacts of forest resource activities in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast United States
  • Johnson, Leonard R., Bruce Lippke, John D. Marshall, and Jeffrey Comnick.
• Gate-to-gate life-cycle inventory of softwood lumber production
  • Milota, Michael R., Cynthia D. West, and Ian D Hartley.
• Gate-to-gate life-cycle inventory of softwood plywood production
  • Wilson, James B., and Eric T. Sakimoto.
• Gate-to-gate life-cycle inventory of oriented strandboard production
  • Kline, Earl D.
• Gate-to-gate life-cycle inventory of I-joist production
  • Wilson, James B., and Eric R. Dancer.
• Gate-to-gate life-cycle inventory of glued-laminated timbers production
  • Puettmann, Maureen E., and James B. Wilson.
• Gate-to-gate life-cycle inventory of laminated veneer lumber production
  • Wilson, James B., and Eric R. Dancer.
• Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions related to the use, maintenance, and disposal of a residential structure
  • Winistorfer, Paul, Zhangjing Chen, Bruce Lippke, and Nicole Stevens.
• An assessment of carbon pools, storage, and wood products market substitution using life-cycle analysis results
  • Perez-Garcia, John, Bruce Lippke, Jeffrey Comnick and Carolina Manriques
• Environmental performance index for the forest
  • Lippke, Bruce, Jeffrey Comnick, and Leonard R. Johnson.

   

The Unseen Connection:
Building Materials and Climate Change
INCOMPLETE DATA SKEWS THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FOCUSED BUILDING STANDARDS

By Bruce Lippke, Ph.D.

From the Winter 2006 addition of California Forests (Vol. 10, No. 1)

We'd like to thank California Forest Products Commission for letting us post this article on the CORRIM website. Here you can download a printable copy of the entire winter issue of California Forests, "Global Climate Change; Forestry Never Looked So Cool". For more information about the benefits of forestry and forest products, visit the California Forest Products Commission website at www.calforests.org.

PHASE I RESEARCH REPORT ON THE RESEARCH PLAN TO DEVELOP ENVIRONMENTAL-PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR RENEWABLE BUILDING MATERIALS WITH ALTERNATIVES FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

REVISED AUGUST 2, 2005
Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials
(CORRIM, Inc.)

• The CORRIM Phase 1 Interim Report:
  * Includes Guidelines, and its accompanying Appendices
  

CORRIM: Life-Cycle Environmental Performance of Renewable Building Materials

Journal of Forest Products June 2004 Issue

By Bruce Lippke, Jim Wilson, John Perez-Garcia,
Jim Bowyer and Jamie Meil

In 1996, the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM) was formed by 15 research institutions as a nonprofit entity that would undertake research on the use of wood as a renewable material. This 13 page article delves into many of the issues encountered during this undertaking, and summarizes the CORRIM Phase I Research Plan.

CORRIM News Releases

• Environmental Costs of Home Construction Lower With Wise Choice, Reuse of Building Materials (Aug. 24, 2004)
  
• Study indicates Wood is Most "Green" Building Material (September 23, 2004)
  
• Wood-Frame Houses Better for Environment, Research Shows
  Wood Uses Less Energy, Results in Fewer Greenhouse Gasses than Alternative Materials (26 August 2004)
  

CORRIM News Releases by Affiliates

• IMPACT: A Report from the American Wood Council of the American Forest & Paper Association (July/August 2004) - Currently unavailable ( February 2, 2005).
  
• Is Wood Good? The CORRIM Report: Environmental Performance of Wood vs. Concrete and Steel in Home Construction (a secondary release in August 2004)

CORRIM Administration Reports

• CORRIM Annual Reports (from 1998 - 2006)
  
  
• Minutes of the 2007 Annual Board Meeting (Newport Beach, California, June 27, 2006)
  
  
• CORRIM Financial Statements (For the Four Years Ended June 30, 2004)
  
  
• CORRIM Tax Eempt Status
  
  
• CORRIM Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws