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Successful start to the innovative £15m Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) project located within mature woodland at Mill Haft, Staffordshire.

Launched by the University of Birmingham in 2013, the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research aims to be unique in Europe in size, ambition and scope and is headed by respected Professor of Atmospheric Science Rob MacKenzie. The Mill Haft project will see the Institute conduct research into two fundamental and interrelated challenges to the world’s forests: the environmental impacts of climate change and the effects of pests and disease. As one of only three such research centres in the world, it will firmly establish the UK as a world leader in forestry research.

Shaylor Group is carrying out extensive works setting up the project site including access roads, a fieldwork compound, a carbon dioxide (CO2) storage compound and all site utility services. They are also busy installing approximately 1,000 metres of pipework throughout the forest which will be used to distribute the CO2through a network of 25m high masts located in 30m diameter rings. It is currently planned that the masts will be delivered to site and manoeuvred into place by helicopter during November and early December.

The 10 year experiment will simulate the atmospheric conditions expected in 2070 and as a result help improve the understanding of what effect climate change may have on existing woodlands. Shaylor Group has already won recognition for its outstanding performance on the project, being named winners of the Environmental Award at the prestigious Building Safety Group (BSG) Awards 2015.

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And how come I can't see anything that looks like Birmingham in the pictures?

And how come this only happened on April 1st...
1st Apr 2016 12:58

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