Dr. Paul Crovella, Assistant Professor in ESF’s Sustainable Resources Management Department, was featured in the Syracuse Center of Excellence Progress Report 2019: Pioneering Innovation Through Research and Entrepreneurship. As a SyracuseCoE Faculty Fellow, Dr. Crovella was awarded funding to test wood species from South America for mass timber building applications. More information about mass timber research at ESF can be found here.
Month: February 2020
Op-Ed by Dr. Tristan Brown featured in the Times Union
Dr. Tristan Brown, Associate Professor of energy resource economics in the Department of Sustainable Resources Management, recently published an op-ed in the Times Union. In the article, Dr. Brown urges New York State policymakers to adopt a technology-neutral Low Carbon Fuel Standard when working to decarbonize the state’s transportation sector. The transportation sector contributes over 40% of the state’s energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A technology-neutral policy would allow the market to determine the best way to meet GHG reduction goals rather than mandating the adoption of a specific technology. This kind of policy has been successful in California, where low carbon transportation fuels like biodiesel and renewable natural gas have helped the state meet decarbonization goals even as cellulosic biofuels and electric vehicle adoption have fallen short of expectations. Dr. Robert Malmsheimer, Professor of forest policy and law, and Dr. Timothy Volk, Senior Research Associate, also contributed to the article.
Mass Timber Symposium to be held April 1, 2020
In conjunction with the annual Green Building Conference, engineers, researchers, and industry partners will convene to build capacity around mass timber as a construction approach. Mass timber construction, the use of composite wood panels and built-up wood members to allow wood buildings higher than four stories, has the potential to reduce fossil fuel-based carbon emissions in the construction industry. Forest products are less energy-intensive to produce than traditional construction materials like steel and concrete, and store carbon for the structure’s lifetime. Speakers at the Mass Timber Symposium include Dr. Paul Crovella (Assistant Professor, SUNY ESF), Jeff Spiritos (Principal, Spiritos Properties), Rick McLain (Senior Technical Director, Woodworks), Oliver Neve (Associate Engineer, Ramboll Engineering), Rodrigo Tome (Project Engineer, New Energy Works), Evan Reidel (Associate, Sidewalk Labs), Jean-Marc Dubois (Director, Business Development, Nordic), and Liz Connor (Sales Associate, Unalam). More information about the symposium can be found here.
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