Expanding into the airspace – why engineered timber is a good fit

Wood-based panel products are sheet materials that contain a significant amount of wood in the form of strips, veneers, chips, strands or fibres. The categories described in this Wood Information Sheet (WIS) are:

• Plywoods
• Particleboards
• Oriented strand board (OSB)
• Fibre building boards

Within each of the above…

Oliver Hartley-Booth outlines the topics discusses by this focus group to help increase the use of mass timber in the commercial office market.

Article from Timber 2021 Industry Yearbook

Defined as wood which has been treated with a chemical, biological or physical agent to enhance its performance, modified wood products (MWPs) are an area of almost constant change, with new techniques being developed all the time.

The seemingly unrelenting changes and improvements in MWPs make the need for…