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Author Jeska, Simone, author

Title Emergent timber technologies : materials, structures, engineering, projects / Simone Jeska, Khaled Saleh Pascha ; edited by Rainer Hascher
Published Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser Verlag, [2015]
©2015

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  691.1 Jes/Ett  AVAILABLE
Description 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans ; 29 cm
Contents Contents note continued: Footbridge in Kollmann -- South Tyrol, Italy -- Gessental bridge -- Near Ronneburg, Germany -- Elephant house, Zurich Zoo -- Zurich, Switzerland -- Double sports hall -- Borex-Crassier, Switzerland -- Three roller-coasters -- Colossos, Heide Park Soltau, Germany -- Balder, Liseberg Park, Gothenburg, Sweden -- Mammut, Tripsdrill Theme Park, Cleebronn, Germany -- Toskana thermal baths -- Bad Orb, Germany
Machine generated contents note: Historic design typologies / Khaled Saleh Pascha -- New technologies and methods / Simone Jeska -- Connections -- Mechanical connections with steel -- Glued connections -- Glued connections with dowels and plates -- Glued wood joints -- Strengthening connections -- Upgrading the material -- Hybrid components -- Composite structures -- Developments in timber construction materials / Khaled Saleh Pascha -- Glued laminated timber -- Veneer and fibre materials -- Cross-laminated timber -- CNC production for timber structures / Simone Jeska -- Machining the components -- Building with straight members -- Nodes -- Building with boards -- Experimental and temporary structures / Simone Jeska -- Projects -- Trade fair hall 11 -- Frankfurt am Main, Germany -- Business premises, BIP Computer -- Santiago de Chile, Chile -- Clubhouse, Haesley Nine Bridges Golf Course -- Yeoju, South Korea -- Austria Center Vienna - "The Wave" -- Vienna, Austria --
Summary "The 'old' material of wood has been used to construct dwellings of different types since the dawn of mankind. This book documentsthe various recent developments in timber technologies, in particular the engineering bonding techniques, the introduction of digital production techniques, and the innovative material developments of this material"--Provided by publisher
Notes Translation of: Neue Holzbautechnologien
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the German
Print version record
Subject Building, Wooden.
Wooden-frame buildings.
Author Hascher, Rainer, 1950- editor
Pascha, Khaled Saleh, author
LC no. 2014045484
ISBN 3038215023
9783038215028
Other Titles Neue Holzbautechnologien. English