Top ten tips for timber cladding
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Timber cladding provides an attractive, economic and environmentally friendly way to enclose buildings. Lewis Taylor offers tips for specifiers.
Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2015
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List of Wood Information Sheets
This document contains a fully comprehensive list of all the most up to date Wood Information Sheets (WIS) published by TRADA. Available to members for free or non-members for £12.00, these Wood Information Sheets provide technical guidance related to almost every timber topic under the sun.
Categories:
- Timber -...
10/05/2021 | Wood Information Sheet
Modified wood products
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...
21/10/2021 | Wood Information Sheet
Durability by design
Designers can considerably extend the life of timber components by attention to detail. Achieving ‘durability by design’ requires the designer to understand the performance requirement for the component.
In order to define performance, designers must:
- Identify an appropriate service life for the structure and components, taking into...
18/03/2019 | Wood Information Sheet
