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Role of construction debris in release of copper, chromium, and arsenic from treated wood structures

Recent research on the release of wood preservatives from treated wood used in sensitive environments has not considered the potential contribution from construction residues. This study sought to develop leaching rate data for small construction debris and compare those to the release rate from treated wood itself. Western hemlock boards were pressure treated with...

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Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Steven A. Halverson; Jeffrey J. Morrell; John Simonsen

Year:

Keywords:

Wood presertatives--Environmental aspects, Leaching--Environmental aspects, Wood preservatives, Water pollution, Construction, Copper, Chromium, Arsenic, Heavy metals, Structural timbers, Leaching, Copper arsenate, Residues

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(Research paper FPL ; RP-584):6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

A primer on wood as dock construction material

To be a successful marina owner and operator, it?s important to understand all the facets of one?s facility, including the intricacies of one part of the marina that most boaters take for granted: the docks. When it comes to dock construction, marinas have a wide-range of materials to choose from, with one of the most commonly used materials being preservative-treated...

Author(s):

Stan Lebow

Year:

2007

Keywords:

Wood utilization, wood preservatives, marinas, docks, wood construction, durability, CCA, preservatives, chromated copper arsenate

Source:

Marina dock age. (May/June 2007): pages 51-54.

Using remotely sensed data to construct and assess forest attribute maps and related spatial products

Tremendous advances in the construction and assessment of forest attribute maps and related spatial products have been realized in recent years, partly as a result of the use of remotely sensed data as an information source. This review focuses on the current state of techniques for the construction and assessment of remote sensing-based maps and addresses five topic...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts; Warren B. Cohen; Erik Naesset; Stephen V. Stehman; Erkki O. Tomppo

Year:

2010

Keywords:

accuracy assessment, change detection, inference, lidar, prediction

Source:

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 25: 340-367.

Durability of wood in construction

In the natural ecosystem, wood residues are recycled into the nutrient web...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Robert H. White

Year:

2007

Keywords:

Wood, flammability, building materials, wood moisture, biodegradation, wood construction, wood preservatives, deterioration, wood-decaying fungi, insect pests, weathering, decay fungi, preservatives, durability, service life, fire resistance

Source:

Marks' standard handbook for mechanical engineers. New York : McGraw Hill, c2007: pages 6.129-6.131.

Alternatives to chromated copper arsenate for residential construction

For decades chromated copper arsenate (CCA) was the primary preservative for treated wood used in residential construction. However, recent label changes submitted by CCA registrants will withdraw CCA from most residential applications. This action has increased interest in arsenic free preservative systems that have been standardized by the American Wood Preservers...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow

Year:

2004

Keywords:

Chromated copper arsenate (CCA), alternative preservatives, leaching, environmental concerns

Source:

Res. Pap. FPL-RP-618. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2004. 9 pages

Guide for minimizing the effect of preservative-treated wood on sensitive environments

Preservative-treated wood is often used for construction of highway and foot bridges, wetland boardwalks, and other structures in or over water or sensitive environments. In these applications it is important that release of preservative from the wood into the environment is minimized. This publication addresses this concern by describing the various types of pressure-...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Michael Tippie

Year:

2001

Keywords:

Preservative-treated wood, sensitive environments, environmental impacts, leaching, treatment practices, fixation, construction practices

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL–GTR–122. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 18 p.

Environmental impact of preservative-treated wood in a wetland boardwalk.

Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and industry partners are cooperating in a study of the leaching and environmental effects of a wetland boardwalk. The construction project is considered bworst casec because the site has high rainfall and large volumes of treated wood were used. Separate boardwalk test sections were constructed using untreated wood or wood...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Patricia K. Lebow; Daniel O. Foster; Kenneth M. Brooks

Year:

Keywords:

Wood preservatives--Environmental aspects, Bridges, Wood preservatives, Footpaths, Environmental impact, Wetlands, Copper arsenate, Leaching, Heavy metals, Water pollution, Florida, Copper zinc arsenate, Copper dimethyldithiocarbamate

Source:

(Research paper FPL ; RP-582):126 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Preservation treatment for wood bridge application

Timber can often be a cost-effective construction material for new bridges. The durability of the bridge greatly depends on proper attention to construction details and fabrication, as well as proper preservative treatment before, during, and after construction. Material repair and replacement costs for bridges are a considerable expense for highway agencies. To...

Author(s):

Jake Bigelow; Stan Lebow; Carol A. Clausen; Lowell Greimann; Terry J. Wipf

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Bridges, testing, wooden bridges, specifications, Iowa, coatings, deterioration, copper naphthenate, service life, wood preservatives, design, construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, wood preservation, timber bridges, copper naphthenate, review article, durability, performance testing, preservation

Source:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. No. 2108 (2009): p. 77-85.

Documenting the Durability and Service Life of Pressure-treated Wood

Estimates of service life are increasingly used to compare life cycle costs of building materials. Because of a lack of published data for treated wood, some users assume a relatively low service life for wood in comparison to alternative materials. Such bias against durable wood products may cause alternative materials to appear more economical. This paper discusses...

Author(s):

Stan Lebow; Bessie Woodward; Patricia Lebow

Year:

2014

Keywords:

treated wood, life cycle, service life, long term durability

Source:

Proceedings, 108th Annual Meeting of the American Wood Protection Association, April 29 – May 2, 2012. Nashville, TN. 108: 2014; pp.166-170.

Using satellite image-based maps and ground inventory data to estimate the area of the remaining Atlantic forest in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina

Estimation of large area forest attributes, such as area of forest cover, from remote sensing-based maps is challenging because of image processing, logistical, and data acquisition constraints. In addition, techniques for estimating and compensating for misclassification and estimating uncertainty are often unfamiliar. Forest area for the state of Santa Catarina in...

Author(s):

Alexander C. Vibrans; Ronald E. McRoberts; Paolo Moser; Adilson L. Nicoletti

Year:

2013

Keywords:

Confidence interval, Model-assisted regression estimator, IPCC good practice guidance, Accuracy assessment, Santa Catarina Forest and Floristic Inventory

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment. 130: 87-95.

Durability of mass timber structures: a review of the biological risks

Mass timber structures have the potential to change wooden construction on a global scale. Numerous mass timber high-rise buildings are in planning, under development or already built and their performance will alter how architects and engineers view wood as a material. To date, the discussion of material durability and biodegradation in these structures has been...

Author(s):

J.Y. Wang; R. Stirling; Paul I Morris; A. Taylor; J. Lloyed; G. Kirker; S. Lebow; M.E. Mankowski

Year:

2018

Keywords:

Mass timber, cross-laminated timber, durability, wood protection

Source:

Wood and Fiber Science. 50: 110-127.

Protecting log homes from decay and insects

This publication supersedes FPL General Technical Report FPL-GTR-11, ?Protecting Log Cabins from Decay? (1977), and FPL Report Number 982, ?Making Log Cabins Endure: Suggestions on Construction, Log Selection, Preservation, and Finishing? (1974). These prior reports provided recommendations for preservative formulation and application that are not currently allowed...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow

Year:

2018

Keywords:

Log homes, protection, decay, insects, construction techniques, preservatives, maintenance

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-257. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 1-18.

Effects of temporally external auxiliary data on model-based inference

One of the benefits of model-based inference relative to design-based inference is that probability samples are not required which means that models can be constructed using data external to the area of interest. Although "external" usually means spatially or geographically external, it could also be used in the temporal sense that the model is constructed...

Author(s):

Zhengyang Hou; Qing Xu; Ronald E. McRoberts; Jonathan A. Greenberg; Jinxiu Liu; Janne Heiskanen; Sari Pitkänen; Petteri Packalen

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Natural resource inventory, Model-based inference, Sampling, Uncertainty, Bootstrapping, Covariance matrix estimator

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment

Environmental concentrations of copper, chromium, and arsenic released from a chromated-copper-arsenate-(CCA-C-) treated wetland boardwalk

A study was conducted to evaluate environmental accumulation and mobility of total copper, chromium, and arsenic adjacent to a chromated-copper-arsenate-(CCA-C-) treated wetland boardwalk. The study was considered a severe test because it included a large volume of treated wood in a site with high annual rainfall. Soil and sediment samples were collected before...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Daniel Foster

Year:

2005

Keywords:

Chromated copper arsenate, CCA, copper, chromium, arsenic, wetlands, boardwalk

Source:

Forest products journal. Vol. 55, no. 2 (Feb. 2005): p. 62-70.

Bridging the gap between strategic and management forest inventories

Strategic forest inventory programs collect information for a large number of variables on a relatively sparse array of field plots. Data from these inventories are used to produce estimates for large areas such as states and provinces, regions, or countries. The purpose of management forest inventories is to guide management decisions for small areas such as stands....

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Source:

In: McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H., eds. Proceedings of the eighth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2006 October 16-19; Monterey, CA. Gen. Tech. Report WO-79. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 279-287.

The effects of rectification and Global Positioning System errors on satellite image-based estimates of forest area

Satellite image-based maps of forest attributes are of considerable interest and are used for multiple purposes such as international reporting by countries that have no national forest inventory and small area estimation for all countries. Construction of the maps typically entails, in part, rectifying the satellite images to a geographic coordinate system, observing...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts

Year:

2010

Keywords:

logistic regression, inference, forest inventory

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment. 114: 1710-1717.

Soil and sediment concentrations of chromium, copper, and arsenic adjacent to a chromated copper arsenate-treated wetland boardwalk

Environmental accumulation of preservative adjacent to a chromated copper arsenate (type C)?treated wetland boardwalk was evaluated. The site is considered a realistic ??worst case?? because of the large volume of treated wood, low current speeds, high annual rainfall, and environmental sensitivity. Soil and sediment samples were collected before construction and 0.5,...

Author(s):

Stan Lebow; Daniel Foster

Year:

2010

Keywords:

Wooden bridges, bridges, wood preservatives, soil pollution, soil chemistry, leaching, wetlands, copper, chromium, arsenic, boardwalks, CCA, preservatives, chromated copper arsenate, treated wood, environmental aspects, preservative treated wood

Source:

Forest products journal. Vol. 60, no. 2 (2010): p. 183-189.

Satellite image-based maps: Scientific inference or pretty pictures?

The scientific method has been characterized as having two distinct components, Discovery and Justification. Discovery emphasizes ideas and creativity, focuses on conceiving hypotheses and constructing models, and is generally regarded as lacking a formal logic. Justification begins with the hypotheses and models and ends with a...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Probability-based inference, Model-based inference, Forest inventory, Accuracy, Bias, Precision, Multinomial logistic regression

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(2): 715-724.

Estimation for inaccessbile and non-sampled forest areas using model-based inference and remotely sense auxiliary information.

For remote and inaccessible forest regions, lack of sufficient or possibly any sample data inhibits estimation and construction of confidence intervals for population parameters using familiar probability- or design-based inferential methods. Although maps based on remotely sensed data may provide information on the distribution of resources, map-based estimates are...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts; Erik Naesset; Terje Gobakken

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Landsat, Lidar, Precision

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment

Wood preservatives and pressure-treated wood: considerations for historic-preservation projects

Wood, an abundant resource throughout most of the world, has been used as a building material for thousands of years. Many historic buildings have been built primarily of wood, and masonry and stone buildings generally have wood elements, both structural and architectural. As a biological material, wood is both remarkably complex and yet quite durable if well...

Author(s):

Ronald W. Anthony; Stan T. Lebow

Year:

2015

Keywords:

Wood preservatives, historic preservation, pressure-treatment, remedial treatment, moisture management

Source:

APT Bulletin, 46(4):1-9.

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Role of construction debris in release of copper, chromium, and arsenic from treated wood structures

A primer on wood as dock construction material

Using remotely sensed data to construct and assess forest attribute maps and related spatial products

Durability of wood in construction

Alternatives to chromated copper arsenate for residential construction

Guide for minimizing the effect of preservative-treated wood on sensitive environments

Environmental impact of preservative-treated wood in a wetland boardwalk.

Preservation treatment for wood bridge application

Documenting the Durability and Service Life of Pressure-treated Wood

Using satellite image-based maps and ground inventory data to estimate the area of the remaining Atlantic forest in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina

Durability of mass timber structures: a review of the biological risks

Protecting log homes from decay and insects

Effects of temporally external auxiliary data on model-based inference

Environmental concentrations of copper, chromium, and arsenic released from a chromated-copper-arsenate-(CCA-C-) treated wetland boardwalk

Bridging the gap between strategic and management forest inventories

The effects of rectification and Global Positioning System errors on satellite image-based estimates of forest area

Soil and sediment concentrations of chromium, copper, and arsenic adjacent to a chromated copper arsenate-treated wetland boardwalk

Satellite image-based maps: Scientific inference or pretty pictures?

Estimation for inaccessbile and non-sampled forest areas using model-based inference and remotely sense auxiliary information.

Wood preservatives and pressure-treated wood: considerations for historic-preservation projects

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