Wooden housing is one of the most sustainable building alternatives. In many European and North American countries, wooden houses provide the most common, economical, and practical solution for construction. The timber ...

This dissertation presents a study of standard guidelines and the design of a wooden bridge superstructure. Treatment methods are analyzed and also the choice of wood species with adequate resistance to building bridges. ...

The postcard bears a drawing of a soldier outside a Y.M.C.A (Young Men's Chrisitian Association) Shelter during World War I. This postcard is postmarked 1916.

A small group of people gathered next to a wooden structure situated among many coconut trees.

Photograph of Mount St. Benedict monastery in Trinidad and Tobago. No. 6.

Photograph of cloister at Mount St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago. No. 6.

This work introduce a study of the main elements of Canadian wood frame construction system, to further assess which of these are interesting to use in Brazil and which require adaptation. The research is characterized as ...

In Brazil, the most widely used constructive system is still the masonry, built from diffrent types of materials such as brick, block, stone, among others. The buildings constructed in Curitiba for example, using conventional ...

One of the most controversial arguments aginst use of wood in construction of diffrent types of buildings is durability. Benevente in 1993 already understood that the problems related to durability of wooden buildings were ...

Both round and handle produced (sawn or rough-hewn), timber constitutes one of the oldest building raw materials. Wood can be engineered to produce structural beams and boards. Today, wooden housing is the most valuable ...