Engineering Nature: Timber Structures

Product Description Building material with future potential\nThanks to high-performance composite structures made of
wood and steel or concrete, wooden buildings are now being erected far
beyond the high-rise boundaries. An end to the increase in altitude is
hardly in sight. Wooden constructions are also on the uptrend in
residential and office construction, sports halls, industrial buildings
and bridges. They are the epitome of sustainable building and, thanks to
new prefabrication processes, are also competitive in terms of
construction costs. The book shows the current development of structural
planning with wood on the basis of around 20 outstanding engineering
structures. The engineers involved in the planning describe the
conception of the supporting structures as well as individual solutions
for their implementation.
About the Author Jakob Schoof, deputy editor-in-chief at DETAILJakob Schoof, stellvertretender Chefredakteur bei DETAIL