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FSC certification: proof your timber is responsibly sourced
On the outside, Canary Wharf is built from steel, stone and glass. But if you look closer, you will see that some of the world’s biggest projects require a massive amount of timber. This short video outlines how FSC project certification helps Canary Wharf Group to prove that the timber they use is responsibly sourced, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
How Construction Professionals Can Ensure Responsible Management of Tropical Forests
Tropical forests are home to two-thirds of the world’s biodiversity, including thousands of different tropical tree species – and it’s our responsibility to preserve them. As a construction professional, you can support sustainable tropical timber by considering some of the incredible FSC-certified lesser-known timber species. Watch this video to learn more about FSC-certified tropical timber.
BCL Timber Projects
Maximising flexibility & efficiency
BCL Timber Projects Ltd are a UK based specialist manufacturer of timber panels systems.
They offer more than 25 solid wood species sourced from USA, South America and Europe, all bearing the FSC mark of sustainable forestry.
One of their largest projects to date is London Bridge Train Station, completed in 2016. The wooden slatted ceiling uses over 7,000 square metres of FSC-certified Western Red Cedar panels.
WWF UK
Living Planet Centre
The Living Planet Centre, WWF UK's head office located in Woking, Surrey, is an exemplar building for sustainable new build offices and demonstrates how far-reaching sustainability objectives set by the client act as drivers for the whole project team and beyond to engage and collaborate from a very early starting point.
All of the timber used on the project, both temporary and permanent, throughout the entire building structure, was FSC certified and the building achieved FSC project certification.
Iggesund Paperboard
When it comes to forest-based products, FSC certification is the sustainable choice you can trust to deliver better outcomes for forests, people and markets – today and for future generations.
FSC certification can help to meet legislative requirements, improve market access and help you to implement and evidence your sustainability policies. It allows you to apply FSC labels to your products and make FSC claims in your sales documents (thereby maintaining the chain of custody for FSC-certified products).
FSC UK
FSC certification is not restricted to products on a shelf. Organisations also have the opportunity to use the FSC trademarks to promote their projects. FSC project certification enables the projects you manage to be FSC certified, allowing you to manage several projects on a continual basis or a one-time project certification, whichever is more convenient for you. Project certification is most often applied to buildings and other temporary or permanent construction projects.
B. Ealovega / WWF UK
Many suppliers will tell you, often in good faith, that their supplies are from ‘sustainable’ or ‘managed’ sources, or from plantations. But without credible certification there is often no way to know if products have been sourced responsibly.
FSC certification enables businesses and consumers to choose wood, paper and other forest products made with materials from well-managed forests and/or recycled sources.