Beach House as Tree House
Warp restraint
In drying timber and other wood products, the application of external loads to a rack, stack or pack of the timber to prevent or reduce warp.
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Designers selecting plywood are faced with a potentially confusing situation with different standards listing different stress grades. A recent project aimed to simplify the situation by relating the strength and stiffness properties of current softwood/hardwood plywood resources from both Australian and New Zealand to the existing plywood stress grades.
This project investigated how fire really affects timber construction and whether the building codes for Class 3 buildings, such as boarding-houses, guest houses, hotels, motels, or aged care facilities, could be modified with safety.
Using timber concrete composite (TCC) floors in multi-storey buildings is a viable, lightweight alternative to other flooring systems that offers potential cost savings and environmental benefits.
In this blog, Timber + Design magazine editor Tony Nielson introduces some of the content in the latest issue - 4th Quarter 2011.
Wood is frequently used in single residential and low rise structures – but why not more in taller buildings? Fire regulations are often the problem – read on to discover more about recent research….
We spoke to architect, David Pennisi about why he decided to go back to study - and why wood.
Enter your favourite photos of wooden objects and win an iPad 2 with Make It Wood
Associate Professor Gregory Nolan discusses the first year of the course – and some of the thinking behind it.
Now you can design, specify and build with windows and doors approved for Flame Zone use without shutters or screens.
WoodSolutions Tutorials are free, non-proprietary technical workplace presentations. We spoke to Alastair Woodard, one of the Victorian Lunch & Learn presenters.