Wood in Construction

How to Avoid Costly Mistakes
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-470-65777-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Wood in Construction - How to Avoid Costly Mistakes focuses on the basic principles and appropriate use of wood in construction and illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems, to ensure that wood performs as expected when used in a construction application. Based on the author's extensive experience of manufacturing processes and practical applications in the timber, construction, joinery, shop-fitting and furniture industries, Wood in Construction provides a guide to using wood in building in the real world. It describes the main causes of difficulty when using wood, and shows how to avoid or minimise problems, reducing the difficulties for the architect, engineer or specifier, builder and building owner.

Technical enough to explain why things should be done in specific ways, but also practical enough to demonstrate how to use wood correctly and avoid doing the wrong things, this is an invaluable resource for construction specifiers (architects, engineers), carpenters, structural engineers, building surveyors, small/medium sized builders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coulson, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Zimmerei, Holzbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CHAPTER 1 Wood as a Material

CHAPTER 2 More on Timber: and Some Stuff about the UK Timber Trade

CHAPTER 3 Water in Wood: Moisture Content and the Drying of Timber

CHAPTER 4 Specifying Timber - for Indoor or Outdoor Uses

CHAPTER 5 The Quality of Timber: and Grading for Appearance

CHAPTER 6 Strength Grading and Strength Classes of Timber

CHAPTER 7 Wood Preservatives and Wood Finishes

CHAPTER 8 Principal Softwoods Used in the UK

CHAPTER 9 A Selection of Hardwoods Used in the UK

CHAPTER 10 Wood-based Sheet Materials

APPENDICES:

A Glossary of Wood and Timber Terms Used in the Timber and Construction Industries

Some Helpful Technical, Advisory and Trade Bodies Concerned with Timber

A Select Bibliography of useful Technical References about Wood

Über Autor(innen)

James C. Coulson FIWSc FFB is a Wood Scientist and Timber Technologist with an encyclopaedic experience of the use of wood in construction, extending back over more than 35 years. He served as President of the Institute of Wood Science from 2002 to 2004 and he is currently a member of the Board of the Wood Technology Society (WTS), a Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He is a member of the WTS's Education Working Group and a tutor for the IOM3 courses on Wood Science and Timber Technology. He has been a Visiting Lecturer to the Universities of Newcastle and Durham Schools of Architecture and Engineering, as well as to Leeds College of Building. He is also a member of the UK Executive Committee of ICOMOS and a specialist in condition surveys of historic timber buildings (he was technical timber advisor for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, working on that project for about 41/2 years). He founded Technology For Timber Limited, a consultancy practice dealing with all aspects of timber and wood-based products, in 1991.