Provides information to extend BS 5268-3 guidance to non-domestic scale roofs. Includes an overview of alternative design methods for bracing with examples. Addresses installation and fixing issues. Applies to permissible stress and limit states design. TRADA Technology Timber Engineering Guidance Document GD 8.
Covers structural applications, landscape design, external and internal joinery and floors, with information on environmental aspects, characteristics and implications for design.
Cross-laminated (CL) timber offers opportunities to use timber in situations where designers would normally use traditional materials such as steel, concrete and masonry. As with any new structural material, it is essential that designers understand how to achieve its potential while respecting its limitations.
Publisher: McMillan-Scott plc Publication date: 2002 Format: HTML Document
To comply with Building Regulations, structural timber for use in buildings which are to be heated must be dry graded. Explains how strength grading is carried out and controlled and explains how certification schemes are monitored.
This WI Sheet is a general introduction to Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures Part 1-1: General - Common rules and rules for buildings. It also outlines the major differences between it and the British code, BS 5268-2.
