The South African construction trade can benefit from making use of laminated timber beams for structural applications, says Abe Stears, managing director of the South Africa Technical Auditing ...

The Institute for Timber Construction South Africa (ITC-SA), South Africa’s professional body for the engineered timber construction industry, issues a notice on compliance of laminated timber beams ...

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) was initially developed in Europe as an alternative to stone, masonry and concrete construction. It is essentially mass timber plates made from smaller framing lumber ...

The reinforcement of timber beams using composite materials has emerged as a transformative strategy in modern structural engineering. Researchers have developed innovative methods for enhancing the ...

This brief overview of the types of mass-timber systems from WoodWorks, While innovative systems continue to be developed within the mass timber category, common products currently include: ...

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