Techniques and Technologies for Effective Wood Procurement

TECH4EFFECT project focuses on increasing access to wood resources through data and knowledge based forest management. Better understanding of the business models governing the procurement of forest operations services is also in the focus of TECH4EFFECT. The project further considers increasing efficiency in forest harvesting and collection, and the reduction of soil impact from forest operations, and puts forward ways of making this a measurable and integrated part of operational efficiency. One aim of the project is to develop web-based benchmarking tool to collect and systematize data from forest management and provide a foundation for knowledge-based management of European forest operations in the future and to implement the TECH4EFFECT benchmarking tool in a global European version and in country specific adaptations through industrial leadership.