Coulson Wood in Construction

How to Avoid Costly Mistakes
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-96825-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Wood in Construction - How to Avoid Costly Mistakesfocuses on the basic principles and appropriate use of wood inconstruction and illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems, toensure that wood performs as expected when used in a constructionapplication. Based on the author's extensive experience ofmanufacturing processes and practical applications in the timber,construction, joinery, shop-fitting and furniture industries,Wood in Construction provides a guide to using wood inbuilding in the real world. It describes the main causes ofdifficulty when using wood, and shows how to avoid or minimiseproblems, reducing the difficulties for the architect, engineer orspecifier, builder and building owner.
Technical enough to explain why things should be done inspecific ways, but also practical enough to demonstrate how to usewood correctly and avoid doing the wrong things, this is aninvaluable resource for construction specifiers (architects,engineers), carpenters, structural engineers, building surveyors,small/medium sized builders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coulson, Jim

Über Autor(innen)

James C. Coulson FIWSc FFB is a Wood Scientist and Timber Technologist with an encyclopaedic experience of the use of wood in construction, extending back over more than 35 years. He served as President of the Institute of Wood Science from 2002 to 2004 and he is currently a member of the Board of the Wood Technology Society (WTS), a Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He is a member of the WTS's Education Working Group and a tutor for the IOM3 courses on Wood Science and Timber Technology. He has been a Visiting Lecturer to the Universities of Newcastle and Durham Schools of Architecture and Engineering, as well as to Leeds College of Building. He is also a member of the UK Executive Committee of ICOMOS and a specialist in condition surveys of historic timber buildings (he was technical timber advisor for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, working on that project for about 4½ years). He founded Technology For Timber Limited, a consultancy practice dealing with all aspects of timber and wood-based products, in 1991.