Installing Preservative Treated Timber Fence Posts
The information in this Guidance Note applies to both ROUND and SQUARE sawn softwood posts, pre-treated with a preservative for fencing applications.
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WPA Benchmark Scheme for Preservative Treated Wood
This document is a summary of the WPA Benchmark Quality Approval Scheme for preservative pre-treated wood.
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Brexit and the EU Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR)
Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) applies to a very wide range of chemical products used by industry, professionals and the general public throughout the EU. The common factor is that all incorporate biocides in their finished form. Wood preservatives are just one group of products within scope.
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Guidance for Wood Treaters in the NTR Region
Guidance for Wood Treaters in the NTR Region. Treatment Specifications used in the UK Market
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Timber Sizes and Tolerances
While timber can be any size permitted by the raw material’s dimensions, there are customary sizes that are most widely available, most often used, and suitable for the vast majority of uses.
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Timber and Embodied Carbon
Utilising sustainably sourced timber can help to reduce the embodied carbon emissions in buildings while also storing CO2e out of the atmosphere.
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Construction Site Timber Best Practice
To keep wood products in an appropriate condition for installation and to protect workers’ safety and health on site, some simple guidance is provided in this knowledge sheet.
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New Model Building Guide
New Model Building sets out design principles demonstrating how mass timber can be used safely to construct residential buildings up to 18 metres in height. This overview Guide describes why we need the New Model Building and what it includes.
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New Model Building Details
The New Model Building sets out design principles demonstrating how mass timber can be used safely to construct residential buildings up to 18 metres in height. This Detail handbook describes the technical standards on which the New Model Building is predicated.
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New Model Building Evidence
The New Model Building sets out design principles demonstrating how mass timber can be used safely to construct residential buildings up to 18 metres in height. This Evidence book contains all the pre-assessed documents submitted to NHBC by Waugh Thistleton Architects, UCL and Buro Happold.
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