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COST ACTION E22: Environmental optimisation of wood protection<br />

3. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES BY WORKING GROUPS<br />

Scope: Traditional wood preservatives, specifying durability requirements, optimum<br />

bio-effective life, creosote, field performance using soil, insects in Europe, climatic<br />

conditions.<br />

Working group 1: PERFORMANCE<br />

Fungi and insect characterization<br />

• Molecular characterization of wood destroying fungi (CIRAD)<br />

• Genetic characterization of termite species (LNB)<br />

Protection with minimum use of preservative chemicals<br />

• Treatment methods against staining fungi: new technologies with low environmental<br />

impacts (CTBA-Françoise Thomassin)<br />

Durability prediction<br />

• Predicting the durability of oak by considering different levels of variability<br />

(ESB)<br />

• Predicting and enhancing the durability of LVL (ESB)<br />

Field tests, efficacy prediction<br />

• Co-normative research: out of ground contact field tests of wood preservatives in<br />

relation of pre-conditioning methods of test wood specimens (CTBA- Françoise<br />

Thomassin)<br />

Field tests using soil<br />

• Physico-chemical protection of poles against soil organisms (CTBA-Isabelle Le<br />

Bayon)<br />

Working group 2: IMPACTS<br />

Scope: Risk assessment, optimum bio-effective life, remediation and wood wastes<br />

Risk assessment and impact studies<br />

• Databank on the environmental impacts of timber materials used for building and<br />

construction (CTBA-E. Bucket, Continuous project financed by the agence de<br />

l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie ADEME)<br />

• Treated timber in service: environmental risk assessment (CTBA-Gérard<br />

Deroubaix, Environment Focus Group)<br />

• Risk assessment of the use of different anti-termite formulations into the terrestrial<br />

and aquatic environment (CTBA-Philippe Marchal)<br />

• Risk evaluation of the use of treated wood in contact with aquatic environment<br />

(CTBA-Philippe Marchal)<br />

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