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Timber frame construction: designing for high performance

Publication Year

2011

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on the design and detailing of timber frame. Covers foundations, ground floors, walls, party walls, intermediate floors, party floors, roofs, cladding and services. Considers timber construction in the context of sustainability and addresses issues of air-tightness, thermal performance and thermal bridging.

Document History

1st edition 1988. 2nd edition 1994. 3rd edition 2001. 4th edition 2008.

Author

Lancashire, R. and Taylor, L.

ISBN

9781900510820

Publisher Information

BM TRADA

BM TRADA originates during the 1930s when a forerunner of what later became the Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA) was set up to promote the use of wood in construction. Their publishing programme delivers an extensive range of timber information - Eurocode 5 guidance, span tables, Wood Information Sheets and technical manuals on timber structures, characteristics, performance aspects such as fire and durability, and common applications.

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