Wood In Construction

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Wood in Construction -- How to Avoid Costly Mistakes focuses on the basic principles & appropriate use of wood in construction & illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems to ensure that wood performs as expected when used in a construction application. Based on the authors extensive experience of manufacturing processes & practical applications in the timber construction joinery shop-fitting & furniture industries Wood in Construction provides a guide to using wood in building in the real world. It describes the main causes of difficulty when using wood & shows how to avoid or minimise problems reducing the difficulties for the architect engineer or specifier builder & building owner. Technical enough to explain why things should be done in specific ways but also practical enough to demonstrate how to use wood correctly & avoid doing the wrong things this is an invaluable resource for construction specifiers (architects engineers) carpenters structural engineers building surveyors small/medium sized builders.