Smartply OSB - Why Use Anything Else?

With the national media continuing to investigate and report questionable material choices in public sector building projects, SmartPly OSB offers a real tick-box answer for architects, specifiers and contractors who need to adhere to 'legal and sustainable' requirements, right down to the perimeter fencing.

The versatility of innovative and environmentally-friendly wood-based panel product SmartPly OSB provides easy and cost effective solutions for all kinds of structural and non-structural, internal and external building applications.

Site hoarding, the first and last thing visible on any building site, is an obvious job for SmartPly. A range of products are available specifically for use - in combination with a timber framework - as a secure barrier for construction and temporary works to help prevent unauthorised access and to ensure the quality appearance of the work in progress reflects the quality of the finished project.

SmartPly OSB is FSC certified, made from sustainable, fast-growing timber and only using forest thinnings of new-growth pine and spruce, including the tops which are not used to make any other wood-based product. Over 75% of the energy used in manufacture comes from wood residues and recovered wood, thus increasing the CO2 benefit still further.

All the timber used to make SmartPly OSB is carefully harvested to preserve the forest's biodiversity, productivity and ecological processes. No long-distance transport is involved as all SmartPly OSB is manufactured near to its source in Waterford, Ireland, and as such is considered a valuable local source by contractors throughout the UK and Ireland. SmartPly OSB doesn't delaminate. It has no knotholes, core voids or other structural defects. Bonded with waterproof resins for exterior use, it is ideal for flooring, roofing, wall sheathings, site hoardings as well as many other general building uses.

In particular, SmartPly OSB hoarding boards have superior strength and stiffness which provide a weather-proof, paintable, long lasting and robust barrier to any enclosure. The market has choices to make and must be sensitive to correct purchasing protocols. From solid timber to plywood, OSB to MDF, the credentials of all wood product supply must be checked.

With a projects' environmental credentials being judged from the pavement outside, why use anything else?

28 February 2008