Homerton College Dining Hall
The award-winning Homerton College Dining Hall by Feilden Fowles celebrates the structural capability and natural beauty of timber by forging a modern response to traditional forms of construction.
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Design of timber structures Volume 3
The book series Design of timber structures Volume 1–3 has been produced to make it easier for structural designers to calculate timber structures and it is adapted to Eurocodes. It is being used for higher education at universities and institutes.
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The structural secrets behind London’s tallest timber office building
The Black & White Building is London’s tallest engineered-timber office building. It contains no concrete above the ground floor slab. Its frame uses timber to provide all the strength and adaptability of steel. Standing 17.8m tall, the 6-storey Black & White Building is an ingenious example of timber construction. It...
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National Structural Timber Specification for Building Construction
Timber design and specification need no longer demand such a ‘special’ approach. Yet timber is a uniquely renewable product and its properties and characteristics require understanding and respect in order to meet clients’ aspirations.
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Module: Further topics in timber engineering Unit: Structural timber – sizes and permitted deviations
Learn about structural timber and all the deviations that have to be followed according to European Standards.
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Specifying externally exposed structural timber
Read on what to consider when using externally exposed timber, what species to choose and the treatments required for it to last for the desired time.
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Use of structural timber permitted in buildings up to 18 metres
Update to Approved Document B: Structural timber has been officially permitted for use in the external walls of all buildings up to 18 metres.
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