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This book contains papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Timber Structures, which was held in collaboration with the Technical Centre of Wood Industry in Belgium. It explores the latest developments in wood products and their application as structural components. The focus of the included works is to draw attention to new research and real applications from both researchers and practitioners, and to present new and innovative ideas in this significant field. Rapid advances have recently been made in the development and processing of innovative ecologically friendly wood products. A variation of new structural shapes can now be fabricated and used to construct buildings and bridges which have minimal impact on the environment. Wood is particularly appealing since it is renewable and has no carbon footprint when it is harvested in a sustainable way. Timber structures are ecologically sound and comparatively low cost. The material lends itself to ground-breaking designs and new types of composites offer reliable, robust and safe materials.

Building, Wooden --- Wooden-frame buildings

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Building, Wooden --- House construction --- Indoor air quality --- House construction --- Industrial surveys --- Technological innovations.

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Carpentry --- Building, Wooden --- History. --- Building with wood --- Wood construction --- Wooden architecture --- Wooden building --- Building --- Manual training --- Woodwork

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With the world's increasing focus on sustainability in the construction sector through green building systems, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively engaged in green building advocacy in the United States through USDA Tall Wood Building competitions and follow-up research on use of mass timber for nonresidential buildings. The USDA Forest Service, Forest Product Laboratory (FPL) funded the study of environmental performance of the pioneer mass timber building (the John W. Olver Design Building) built at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016. The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute conducted the whole building life cycle assessment (LCA) using the Impact Estimator for Building software. Secondly, the reported LCA results led to development of an environmental building declaration (EBD) in conformance with European standard EN 15978. Environmental building declarations summarize the embodied and operational environmental impacts during the full building life cycle. An EBD is much like an environmental product declaration (EPD) which is intended for marketing and educational use, but instead of covering individual products like an EPD, an EBD covers the whole building. Lastly, the LCA results of the Design Building were then compared with a functionally equivalent steel and concrete building to acquire the whole building LCA credit in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v.4 for green buildings. With the mass timber use in the Design Building, the building qualified for the whole building LCA credit in LEED v4. With this project, FPL is helping to standardize environmental performance reporting and advanced mass timber building sustainability.

Forest products --- Building, Wooden --- Life cycle costing --- Product life cycle --- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System. --- Buildings --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental aspects --- University of Massachusetts Amherst --- Buildings.

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The first in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on brick and tile. Besides highlighting more than 60 projects by 47 international teams of architects, it features brief statements from 27 architecture practices regarding their views on using brick and tile in buildings. Featuring Casanova + Hernandez, CEBRA, Studio Farris Architects, BIG, Carlos Lampreia, TAKK Architecture, Sunil Patil and Associates, BudCud, NL Architects, Nishizawa Architects, UNStudio, modostudio, and many more. The diverse range of international projects includes interior, residential, housing, education, commercial, installation, and public (urban and landscape).

Building, Brick --- Tile construction --- 693.2 --- 691.4 --- Baksteenarchitectuur ; 21ste eeuw --- Bouwmaterialen ; keramische --- Keramiek ; tegels ; architecturale toepassingen --- Hollow tile construction --- Building --- Brick building --- Masonry --- Metselwerk van baksteen --- Bouwmaterialen ; leem, klei, aardewerk --- Constructions en brique --- Carreaux --- Constructions en bois --- Construction en verre --- Constructions en brique. --- Carreaux. --- Constructions en bois. --- Construction en verre. --- Building, Wooden --- 691.11(03) --- Bouwmaterialen ; hout --- Houtarchitectuur ; 21ste eeuw --- Building with wood --- Wood construction --- Wooden architecture --- Wooden building --- Bouwmaterialen ; hout ; naslagwerken --- Glass construction --- Architecture --- 691.6 --- Bouwmaterialen ; glas --- Glasarchitectuur --- Architectural designs --- Designs, Architectural --- Architectural drawing --- Glass architecture --- Glass as structural material --- Glass in architecture --- Bouwmaterialen ; glas, vensterglas, spiegelglas --- Construction en brique --- Construction en tuiles --- Architecture - Dessins et plans