Six main model scenarios simulated different combinations of timber harvest, fire exclusion, wildland fire use, and prescribed fire.
By using different combinations of timber, for example, you get a different sound, and that is what musicians are interested in – a sound that can do what they want it to do".
Most architects are in awe of its bold combination of concrete, timber, bronze and brick.
The most ambitious is an appealingly spare combination of cross-laminated timber and chain link, a distillation of Miesian and L.A. School influences, by the Rhode Island firm Ultramoderne.
Lack of understanding of the fire technical properties of clay plaster is what most likely prevents this traditional material in combination with timber from being widely used.
Two different retrofit solutions were tested, namely, the addition of mechanical screw-ties with different spacings or a combination of mechanical screw-ties and timber strong-backs.
Seven years in the making, the 654-square-meter mansion is 90% concrete, and a combination of steel, stone, brick and timber.
Likely transport distances may be calculated when this record of timber destinations is combined in a geographic information system (GIS) with remotely sensed information about timber origins.
When demand for timber casualty insurance in a country is low, the supply of such insurance is too costly, or a combination of both, the amount of standing timber insured there will be minimal.
However, the combination of extensive forests, sparsely distributed valuable timber, difficult physical access, high level of poverty, widespread unemployment, and insufficient funding for control and monitoring have made it difficult for Peruvian authorities to efficiently enforce formal rules regulating access, logging activities, and forest management [4] [6].
Victor Hugo once described the cathedral as a "vast symphony in stone". It's also a structure made of timber and open spaces that lacks proper fire protections — a combination that experts say left it vulnerable.
