Seminar at the Istanbul University of Technology

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 thebenefit of architecture and engineering students. The presentations were:Zeynep Ahunbay (Turkey) Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture - Traditional Timber Buildings inTurkeyErol Karacabeyli (Canada) FORINTEK - Performance of Timber Structures in EarthquakesRob Grantham (UK) BRE - Findings from the BRE TF2000 ProjectFrederic Rouger (France) CTBA - CE Marking and Eurocode5Murat Talu (Turkey) Turkish Timber Association - Turkish Experience with New Timber StructuresKevin Cheung (USA) WWPA - North American Experience of Timber StructuresBryan Walford (New Zealand) Forest Research - New Zealand-Australian Experience of Timber StructuresPowerpoint files are available on all except the first above, which was a slide show.