THE NZ WOOD EMAIL ALERT FOR ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS
Wood Mythbusters – timber vs. steel
We have profiled several timber-structure multi-storey buildings over the last few months. But how do such buildings perform in a large fire? [ More ] [ Read More ]
Increasingly architects and engineers around the world are turning back to wood for construction – even for multi-storey buildings. Wood’s advantages of weight and convenience, as well as resilience, also make it a wise choice for earthquake-prone [ More ] [ Read More ]
A system has been launched to address fire safety concerns in multi-storey timber frame construction after a 12 month research programme and collaboration across the timber frame sector.
Intelligent Wood Systems used Ecobuild to launch its IWS-FR (fire retardant) system, comprising [ More ] [ Read More ]
Report – NZWood
9 February 2010
New engineering techniques allowing multi-storey buildings to be constructed of wood can mean buildings surviving major earthquakes with very little damage, according to a New Zealand engineering professor.
Andy Buchanan of Canterbury University says that if the [ More ] [ Read More ]
