Seminar at the Istanbul University of Technology
Bryan Walford, Forest Research Institute, Rotorua
The Turkish Timber Association, who facilitated a meeting of ISO Technical Committee 165, “Timber Structures”, asked several of the delegates to give reports on the state of timber construction in their countries. This was for the benefit of architecture and engineering students.
The presentations were:
Zeynep Ahunbay (Turkey) Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture – Traditional Timber Buildings in Turkey
Erol Karacabeyli (Canada) FORINTEK – Performance of Timber Structures in Earthquakes
Rob Grantham (UK) BRE – Findings from the BRE TF2000 Project
Frederic Rouger (France) CTBA – CE Marking and Eurocode5
Murat Talu (Turkey) Turkish Timber Association – Turkish Experience with New Timber Structures
Kevin Cheung (USA) WWPA – North American Experience of Timber Structures
Bryan Walford (New Zealand) Forest Research – New Zealand-Australian Experience of Timber Structures
Powerpoint files are available on all except the first above, which was a slide show.
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