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The more context you give — climate, orientation, maintenance budget, fire class — the more useful the answer.
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This week in wood intelligence
- Registry reach
- 0 live standards and registries reached
- Highest resilience score
- Robinia (Black Locust)
- Latest insight
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One real question
“I need a low-maintenance timber façade for a school in Gothenburg, with a 50-year ambition and natural ageing.”
Primary finding
Moisture-safe façade detailing is the dominant performance factor for this project — not the species choice.
Recommended direction
A ventilated, drained rainscreen with a material matched to the required durability and the realistic maintenance interval.
Best-fit options
Best fit
Thermally modified ash
Best for: Low maintenance and dimensional stability · Trade-off: Higher relative cost
Viable alternative
Siberian larch
Best for: Balance of performance and cost · Trade-off: More dependent on detailing and maintenance
Conditional option
Untreated spruce
Best for: Lowest cost where replacement is planned · Trade-off: Shorter service life in this exposure
Confidence
- Evidence
- High
- Prediction
- Moderate
- Decision
- Moderate
Strength of the supporting research
Certainty of the modelled estimate
Enough information to act
Next best question
“How often can the façade realistically be maintained?”
One answer narrows the service-life range from 9–53 years.
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Describe the project in plain language.
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Decide
WoodIntel identifies what matters, weighs the evidence and recommends a direction.
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Deliver
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WoodIntel connects recommendations to the standards, research, climate data and models behind them.
- Claim
- Ventilated cladding materially extends service life in EN 335 use class 3.1.
- Confidence
- 74% · Moderate
- Key sources
- 12 studies across seven scholarly registries
- Standard
- EN 350:2016 (material durability class) · EN 335 (use class)
- Method
- WI-SL v1.2.0 — published service-life model
- Last verified
- 8 Aug 2026
- Version
- WI-EV v1.0.0
Research index
7 registries
Verified 8 Aug 2026
EN & ISO standards
23 indexed
Verified 8 Aug 2026
Climate data
ERA5
Synchronized 8 Aug 2026
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