Systems in Timber Engineering: Loadbearing Structures and Component Layers

✍ Scribed by Josef Kolb (auth.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Wood — natural building material with potential....Pages 10-17
Ecology, sustainable building....Pages 18-21
Conception and design....Pages 22-31
Material....Pages 32-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Overview of systems....Pages 38-41
Fabrication processes....Pages 42-49
Log construction....Pages 50-53
Timber-frame construction....Pages 54-59
Balloon frame, platform frame....Pages 60-61
Panel construction....Pages 62-85
Frame construction....Pages 86-111
Solid timber construction....Pages 112-135
Roof structures....Pages 136-157
Suspended floor structures....Pages 158-181
Multi-storey timber buildings....Pages 182-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Fundamentals, functions, tasks....Pages 202-223
Design and construction....Pages 224-233
External walls....Pages 234-245
Pitched roofs....Pages 246-253
Flat roofs....Pages 254-261
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Party walls internal walls....Pages 262-269
Suspended floors....Pages 270-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Moisture content....Pages 286-287
Protecting timber....Pages 288-297
Fire protection....Pages 298-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-317

✦ Subjects

Basics of Construction