Technical articles
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, […]
30 March 2016
As mentioned in the previous article which was also connected to the survey, the second requirement of the ground attack detail is the structural safety.The support […]
28 March 2016
In the last weeks we had the opportunity to read a previews of this very useful manual and to discuss about with the marketing and product […]
23 March 2016
Almost 200 designers (196 to be precise) participated in the survey proposed in late February on our pages about a very delicate issue which is quite […]
