Sentence examples for of timber building from inspiring English sources

The manufacture of timber building systems creates no waste in the factory, and has less embodied energy impact.

In this study, a new methodology for the direct displacement-based seismic control design of timber building structures with an idealized slip-hysteretic model is proposed.

During the late 1920s he was chief architect for a manufacturer of timber buildings.

But while timber advocates such as Green hope to to sow the seeds of change in the minds of policymakers worldwide, building regulations still put a low-rise lid on the height of timber buildings.

You can't miss Bryggen, the colourful Unesco world heritage-listed cluster of timber buildings on the quayside to the east of town that feature so prominently and prettily in Arendelle.

In Pudding Lane, the narrow street of timber buildings, the shops and cellars around Thomas Farriner's bakery – where the maid, who may have been too tired to rake out the ashes properly from the oven, became the fire's first victim when she was too scared to climb out a window onto a neighbour's roof – were stuffed with flammable material including brandy, oil, and tar.

The popularity of timber buildings is increasing at the moment.

It included remains of timber buildings and streets, and is now believed to date back to the 1st Century.

This paper presents the results of the ongoing work on the revision of the provisions for the seismic design of timber buildings in Europe included within Chapter 8 of Eurocode 8.

However, with an increasing height of timber buildings the challenge is to maintain the same expected performance independent of the height; tall buildings are particularly exposed to high wind pressures combined with wind-driven rain.

The present study propose a thorough approach to the optimization of the whole-life cost of a timber building focusing mostly on its mechanical, structural and energy subsystems for a life cycle of 20 years.