{"id":19712,"date":"2018-09-17T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=19712"},"modified":"2018-09-17T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:16:36","slug":"wood-utilization-design-institute-adds-katerra-as-founding-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wood-utilization-design-institute-adds-katerra-as-founding-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Utilization + Design Institute adds Katerra as founding member\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Katerra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19851\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Katerra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/Katerra.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/Katerra-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/Katerra-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/Katerra-705x471.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The California-based construction and technology services company Katerra has joined Clemson\u2019s Wood Utilization + Design Institute as a founding member, giving $50,000 toward the institute\u2019s mission of researching, educating and providing resources for industry stakeholders in a variety of disciplines to advance wood-based products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cClemson is delighted to have Katerra as one of its founding partners,\u201d said Pat Layton, institute director. \u201cThe innovation they are bringing to the construction industry to set forward a path to increase efficiencies within building construction systems may provide a transformational change in how we build homes and communicate in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Hans-Erik Blomgren, Katerra\u2019s director of testing and characterization, praised the institute for \u201cbringing together diverse stakeholders to advance the wood products industry in South Carolina and throughout the Southeast,\u201d and described his company\u2019s collaboration with the institute as a way to \u201cdrive positive economic and environmental outcomes for end consumers, companies and students alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">T<span class=\"s2\">he forest industry has a<br \/>\n$21 billion impact on the South Carolina economy. More than two thirds of land in the state \u2014<br \/>\n12.9 million acres \u2014 is forested. Clemson\u2019s Wood Utilization + Design Institute is strategically positioned to drive the development, demand and use of wood products and to address the industry\u2019s needs for the next generation of talent. Researchers with the institute currently are testing cross-laminated timber to determine burn rates, wind resistance and structural load.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California-based construction and technology services company Katerra has joined Clemson\u2019s Wood Utilization + Design Institute as a founding member, giving $50,000 toward the institute\u2019s mission of researching, educating and providing resources for industry stakeholders in a variety of disciplines to advance wood-based products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1158,1710,3403],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clemson-forever","tag-fall-2018-clemson-forever","tag-katerra","tag-wood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/Katerra.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19712"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}