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timber construction lexicon

The lexicon is intended to help you better understand terms used in timber construction. These are partly taken from standards and regulations. Of particular importance here is the standard DIN EN 1995-1-1:2010-12 – Design and construction of timber structures and DIN EN 14080:2013-09 – Timber structures – Glulam and laminated beams – Requirements. The provisions regarding the performance characteristics of cross laminated timber used in buildings and bridges are to be specified in DIN EN 16351 in the future.

A

Support reinforcement
Tender texts
Selection quality
Bracing

B

Structural wood protection
Construction team
Component dimension
Component identification
Component thickness
Bending radius
BIM (Building Information Modeling)
Arched beams
Fire behaviour of building materials
Glulam

C

Cadwork
CE marking according to EN 14080
CNC joinery
CO2 neutral
CO2-balance
CO2-compensation
Cradle to Cradle
Cradle to Cradle product certification

D

Durability classes wood
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Triple-joint structures

E

Clamped wooden supports

F

Truss beams
Strength classes
Strength classes glued laminated timber
Strength grading
Fire resistance duration
Spruce (lat. Picea abies)
Fish-bellied beams

G

Building resource passport
Use classes (formerly hazard classes) according to DIN 68800
Serviceability
Threaded rods
Quality class

H

Urea resin glue
Wood-concrete composite
Fee structure for architects and engineers HOAI
Wood types
Wood balancing moisture
Wood moisture
Wood stains
Wood protection according to DIN 68800
Wood sorting
Hollow box ceiling
Cavity ceiling
Wood-steel adhesive composite

I

Impregnation
Industrial quality

K

Cascade use
Finger-jointing
Pine (lat. Pinus)
Adhesives
Climate neutral
Solid structural timber
Circular economy
Bending

L

Lamella structure
Lamella thickness
Larch (lat. Larix decidua)
Durability of wooden constructions
Glue joints

M

Madaster
Multi-span beam

N

Sustainability
Nesting
Use classes wood

O

Surface quality BS wood
Surface quality X-LAM

P

Pressing pressure

Q

Quality assurance and monitoring
Swelling and shrinkage
Transverse tension (tension transverse to the direction of the grain)
Transversal tension reinforcement

R

Room enclosing building components
Right board side
Recycling
Re-use
Ribbed ceiling & box girder ceiling
Take-back of components

S

Pitched cambered beams
Sound insulation
Slab formation timber construction
Narrow side bonding
Fillings
Shrinkage cracks
Vibrations
Visual quality
Support beams

T

Condensation water swimming pool
Temporary weather protection for multi-storey X-LAM buildings
Load-bearing behaviour

U

Superelevation
Overlength transport
Surveillance mark glulam
Universal finger joint

V

Composite component made of glulam

Z

Circular construction
Circularity
Two-hinged frame

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