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Softwoods Used in Construction – With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials
This chapter describes a timber’s general appearance, then provides an indication of its average density (weight), and goes on through all its main characteristics. It begins with the softwoods, which tend very much to be the ‘workhorses’ of the wood‐using industries. They are used extensively in most normal construction. The chapter outlines the two timbers most commonly used in the United Kingdom and Europe, known almost universally within the timber trade by their common names, ‘European redwood’ and ‘European whitewood’. In terms of the ‘sustainability’ credentials of both European whitewood and British spruce, they are much the same as for European redwood. Douglas fir is a native of western North America, growing in pretty much the same areas as Western hemlock, most abundantly in British Columbia in Canada and in Washington and Oregon in the United States.
Softwoods Used in Construction – With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials
This chapter describes a timber’s general appearance, then provides an indication of its average density (weight), and goes on through all its main characteristics. It begins with the softwoods, which tend very much to be the ‘workhorses’ of the wood‐using industries. They are used extensively in most normal construction. The chapter outlines the two timbers most commonly used in the United Kingdom and Europe, known almost universally within the timber trade by their common names, ‘European redwood’ and ‘European whitewood’. In terms of the ‘sustainability’ credentials of both European whitewood and British spruce, they are much the same as for European redwood. Douglas fir is a native of western North America, growing in pretty much the same areas as Western hemlock, most abundantly in British Columbia in Canada and in Washington and Oregon in the United States.
Softwoods Used in Construction – With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials
Coulson, Jim (author)
2021-01-11
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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