Constructional timber: Fact sheet no. 3

Philip O’Leary, head of TRADA Technology’s Structural Investigations team, highlights his concerns about a lack of understanding in the industry about timber strength grading issues.

Timber as a natural material, is inherently variable, even within a single species. Strength grading of softwood and hardwood overcomes this, by assessing the…

The use of round timber for structural applications can provide designers with attractive features in sympathy with local surrounding in a range of applications from housing and agricultural buildings to major engineering structures such as bridges.

Structural engineers are often faced with little information on designing with round timber…

This wood for good fact sheet is an introductory guide to engineered wood.

This sheet briefly explains engineered wood and then discusses the creation process and a number of the benefits of the different types of engineered woods available, included in which are: engineered timber beams (I-beams), heat treated…