Timber Engineering Reference

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Web Directory

This world-wide directory of web links related to wood construction and timber engineering (“Holzbau” in German) is designed as an edited but open central node for professionals, academics, students or the general public to quickly find information related to this exciting topic.

To submit a link, use the comment form on the bottom of the most appropriate page.

Timber Engineering Web Search

Use the search box above to do a Google search of several predefined websites – all which are related to timber engineering. The current list of searched sites is: proholz.at, fpl.fs.fed.us, forestprod.org, wooduniversity.org, apawood.org, tfguild.org, cwc.ca, awc.org, forumholzbau.com, infoholz.de, holz.de and this one.

Blog

Visit the Timber Engineering category on my blog to read current posts on this topic. These are the latest posts:

• Exciting News: New Standard for Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Approved by ANSI
• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012!
• Melting wood
• Wood – nature’s stroke of genius
• How long does it take to grow a hotel?
• A bad year for trees around here
• New Book: “Towards a Culture of Wood Architecture”
• 2011 Wood Structures Symposium: Only 10 days left for early registration!
• 2011 Wood Structures Symposium
• Like wood? Follow @timberengineer!

Wood Design Photo Series

In this series of posts I infrequently showcase photos of wooden buildings that I have visited in my travels.

You can find the complete list here:
Wood Design Photo Series

Timber Engineering Dictionary

This German-English, English-German dictionary currently contains approx. 1000 timber engineering and general engineering terms. There is also a list of other related dictionaries for more languages.