by Guðrún Þórðardóttir | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
The last day of the Iceland visit was spent in Þjórsárdalur, an area where the Iceland Forest Services has planted and maintained a forest for almost 80 years. There the participants had practical excercises, under the guidance of Tomas Ivarsson, based on timber...
by Guðrún Þórðardóttir | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
On Thursday Tomas Ivarsson, one of the editors of the book Commercial Grading of Timber – Grading Rules, gave the theoretical part of his workshop based on the book. The book is really a handbook and participants learned how to use the book as a guide to sorting...
by Guðrún Þórðardóttir | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
After a very nice breakfast at Hvanneyri, the program of day three of the TreProX Icelandic workshop started formally at Mógilsá, the Iceland Forest Services Research Center. The Director of the center, Dr. Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir, began the program by telling the...
by Guðrún Þórðardóttir | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
On day two of the TreProX Iceland workshop Bent Jensen from Copenhagen University Forestry School talked about how planting and maintenance of forests directly affects timber quality. He gave quite a few examples of good and bad practices and the discussions that...
by Guðrún Þórðardóttir | Oct 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Icelandic workshop of the TreProX project started formally on Monday the 11th of October. There are 39 participants in the workshop, from Denmark, Sweden and Iceland. On the first day there were three lectures in the morning. Dr. Ólafur Eggertsson from the...
