Timber buildings

Bowden, C. Restoring life to old timbers. Building Trades Journal, 187, No. 5540, 2 February 1984. 

In timbered buildings, factories and warehouses containing flammable materials, oil depots and refineries and the like where the economic... 

Weatherill et al. (2011a) provides a detailed and critical review of the recommended and more common and suitable intensity measures to use in seismic risk analysis for different types of buildings, including masonry, reinforced concrete, steel frame, and timber building types (Table 6). 

Earthquake design Earthquake resistance Timber buildings Wood Wood buildings Wood products... 

The development of medium-rise timber buildings required the development of lateral load-resisting elements that are sufficiently strong enough to resist earthquake and wind loads for taller buildings. The approach taken was to use... 

Timber stmctures inherently have good earthquake resistance as they are lightweight and have low stiffness, but ductility can only really be achieved in the connections. For smaller and low-rise timber stmctures, design for wind load and good practice in detailing are sufficient to ensure adequate earthquake resistance. A desirability to use more timber in constmction for environmental reasons has recently led to more interest in multistory timber buildings and innovative research in how to design these for earthquake resistance. 

The composition and quantity of earthquake debris will vary based on the nature of the built environment affected as well as the severity of the earthquake. For example, a community with predominantly timber buildings will have a different waste composition than a community that builds houses from adobe bricks. Or a city with poor building standards affected by a moderate earthquake may generate more debris than a city that has good building standards affected by a much larger earthquake. It is important to understand both the composition and the quantity of... 

Laidlaw, R. A. and Paxton, B. H. (1974) Die effect of moisture content and wood preservatives on the assembly gluing of timber. Building Research Estabhshment Current Paper CP54/74, Princes Risborough Laboratory, Aylesbury, Bucks. 

For some uses, the anisotropy of timber and its variability due to knots and other defects are particularly undesirable. Greater uniformity is possible by converting the timber into board such as laminated plywood, chipboard and fibre-building board. 

Weather boarding on timber framing with 10 mm 0.62 plasterboard lining, 50 mm glass-fiber insulation in the cavity and building paper behind the boarding... 

For the remedial treatment of fungal decay and insect attack on timber in buildings, clear solvent-type preservatives applied by spraying all available surfaces are generally used, supplemented with wood preservative pastes to obtain deep penetration. Water-based emulsions are also used for woodworm control. There has been a general move towards the use of those... 

Impermeable timbers have a good resistance to polluted atmospheres where acid fumes rapidly attack steel. Wood has given excellent service in the buildings of chemical works and railway stations. Permeable wood species and sapwood can suffer defibration problems caused by the sulphur dioxide of industrial atmospheres. Tile battens are particularly vulnerable. The heartwood of Douglas fir, pitch pine, larch, Scots pine/European redwood and many tropical hardwoods give good service in these conditions. 

Preservative Treatments for External Softwood Joinery Timber, Technical Note No. 24 (revised version). Building Research Establishment, Princess Risborough (1982)... 

Whitney, R. S., Timber Fasteners and Potential Problems of Corrosion. Paper presented at N.Z. Wood Preservers Association Annual Conference, Blenheim, New Zealand, 1977, Building Research Association of New Zealand, Wellington (1977)... 

Cross, J.N. Evaluation of metal fasteners performance in CCA-treated timber , 5th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, Brighton, (1990)... 

Any columns passing through coldrooms would be insulated, at least partially, to reduce conduction along the heat bridge and the build-up of condensation and ice. Floors would have a layer of hard concrete on the floor insulation. Ceilings were stuck to a concrete ceiling or fixed to a false timber ceiling. 

No shiny notice boards here, no competent line-drawing reconstructions that remind me of my childhood history books. Here are only fields and fences and crumbling stone. What s left is just that leavings. After the lead s been stripped from the roof, the timbers taken to build a barn or burn Guy Fawkes, the good dressed stone carted away for some squire s new house, what remains is only what s too stubborn to be easily used again. 

The increased use of petrochemical derivatives in building construction will ease the demand on timber and produce a decidedly beneficial side effect that of revitalizing the chronically depressed paper industry in a land which prides itself as the inventor of paper. 

Timber used structurally in public, agricultural, office or industrial buildings (no human contact)... 

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