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Acknowledgements
IN HIS BOOK “Wood Modification”, Callum Hill refers to the enormous
potential in the new industry that has emerged from the development of
wood modification technologies. One such technology is impregnation
modification using silicates. This is the story of one company, Sioo Wood
Protection AB, told through the development of its silicate wood protection technology and the application of the resulting products to a range
of interesting wooden building projects.
OUR BOOK WAS started just before the onset of the COVID pandemic.
This has taken its toll in time, resource and people impact and it became
apparent that to bring the work to fruition required a team approach and
could not be a solitary exercise. Hence the joint authorship. In this regard,
particular acknowledgments are made to Peter Wilson who battled to
make progress in increasingly difficult circumstances.
THIS BOOK WOULD not have been possible without the generous contri-
bution of three particular professional groups: the architectural practices
whose inspirational work is presented in these pages; the photographers
whose outstanding images have captured the essence of the featured
projects and the manufacturing specialists who delivered such high quality work.
THANKS ARE DUE to all of the Sioo team and especially to the Sioo founder, Herje Bostrom, whose story in essence this is. He has been committed, encouraging and patient as the authors have worked through times
like no other.
THIS BOOK IS dedicated to all of the families of those who have contri-
buted to it in any way and to those working to develope and apply technologies to save the planet.
ALAN COULTAS, 2021
