OREANDA-NEWS. May 12, 2012. At the meeting, the specialists of SC Olimpstroy, Organizing Committee Sochi 2014, the Forest Supervisors Council, representatives of supplier companies and builders of Olympic venues discussed the range of round timber, carving wood, wood-based panels, paper, Russian-made furniture for possible supplies to Sochi.

Special attention was paid to the products of timber certified under the international pattern of the Forest Supervisors Council (FSC). Such certificate guarantees the legal origin of timber raw materials. It confirms that wood-logging meets Russian and international environmental requirements, and the process of manufacturing of timber materials has been fully verified - from the status of the land plot and the entire production chain to the final sales of the finished goods. The workshop participants emphasized the significance of use of similar products in Sochi and proposed to intensify work on promoting the certified timber among builders of the 2014 Olympics.

The use of construction and fitout materials made of legal timber in Sochi is one of the requirements of the ‘green’ standard developed by SC Olimpstroy. According to Evgeny Snegirev, representative of the Environmental Support Department, this effort would enable to eliminate supplies to the Olympic construction site of products made of timber illegally cut down in protected forests or on specially protected natural territories, and also included into the Red Book or prohibited for cutting.

The workshop participants noted that it is Olympic builders who should be the most active proponents of promotion of certified timber goods in different nations. For instance, during the Vancouver Games, key facilities were built using FSC materials. In London, where 2012 Summer Olympics will be held, the entire timber in use and even office paper are certified and reused. The "green" relay race is taken over by Sochi. The idea is to furnish the residential facilities, including houses for volunteers and IOC representatives to be erected by 2014, using materials made of legal timber only.