Technical articles
12 January 2018
“is early identification and reporting of this problem possible, before the situation gets out of hand?”.
18 December 2017
Failure to comply with acoustic parameters is often the subject of legal disputes but above all searching “in the dark” to identify the source and solve the problem.
18 December 2017
Wood and durability: how can we sleep peacefully? It would take and active 24/7 monitoring system that will alert the user of critical situations due to […]
8 November 2017
It should be emphasized immediately that waterproofing is the most important aspect for flat roofs and must always be guaranteed. Workmanship and quality control are therefore […]
2 October 2017
Great Architects such as the late Zaha Hadid saw natural structures as structures made from extremely complex geometries. Obviously, credit goes to those who have the […]
29 September 2017
Hold-down brackets (preventing up lift of walls) and square steel plates (preventing lateral translation of walls) are used to transfer lateral loads acting on walls. Hold-down […]
19 November 2016
Xlam or, more correctly, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), is a material composed of a minimum of three layers of wooden boards, glued one perpendicular to the […]
3 November 2016
When it comes to designing timber buildings, it is very likely to deal with the question of air tightness. What do we mean by that? Air […]
21 August 2016
In our last post, we have dealt with BIM and introduced its potentialities in the field of timber constructions. Today we are going to discuss the […]
21 August 2016
It is well known that, as a design process starts and evolves, it gets more and more difficult to conciliate all the requests coming from the […]
21 August 2016
Almost every time we hear the word ‘efficiency’ used to describe a timber building, it concerns the energetical aspect. One of the most important and interesting […]
18 August 2016
The mechanical response of timber changes in a significant way depending on the three directions characterising the material, and this is the reason why it is […]
20 June 2016
In our previous article we approached the static aspects of the ground attack detail, and the strong implications of their design on the durability of the […]
3 June 2016
With our last post we introduced the issue of air tightness and focused on its importance, and the ways we can measure it. The upcoming paragraph, […]
