Sentence examples for mass of timber from inspiring English sources

"It was opening the main gates of the building to see this tangled mass of timber, machinery and debris floating," says Neil Craddock, 65, describing the lowest point in his engineered wood flooring company being flooded.

In the climate protection strategy a high CO2 sequestration can best be realized by high increment resulting in high standing volume and simultaneously harvesting a considerable mass of timber being used in long-lasting products such as construction wood.

No one quite knows why, not even Sheffield city council, which paid the bill, but there was no money to thin the saplings and so the under-storey became a gloomy mass of rotting timber and pine needles.

They need a lot of timber to stabilize their tunnels.

Finally we slump into El Tovar, the oldest Grand Canyon hotel, with its fireplaces of stone blocks and masses of dark timber, a perfect hiker's rest.

It was found that the modal testing method was capable of characterizing the elastic constants of mass timber panels with at least 90% agreement with the results via conventional static tests.

The rigidity of mass timber panels has tended to restrict architects to a "house of cards" design, whereby panels are slotted together and stacked on top of one another in repetitive patterns.

In-plane elastic properties of mass timber panels are critical in serviceability design, especially when two-dimensional mechanical behaviour is considered.

This study explores the seismic performance advantages and disadvantages of mass timber construction over reinforced concrete construction for high-rise buildings in high seismic regions.

Somehow that indiscriminate tangle, the mass of all that bare timber -- most of it merely unbudded, some of it pulp -- makes spring seem like a betting proposition at best.

This paper reviews and assesses available data and methods to design for fire resistance of laminated mass timber compression elements.