ABSTRACT
Wood is a very versatile raw material and is still widely used in construction, especially in countries such as Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Poland, where there is an abundance of goodquality timber. Timber can be used in a range of structural applications including marine works: construction of wharves, piers, cofferdams; heavy civil works: bridges, piles, shoring, pylons; domestic housing: roofs, floors, partitions; shuttering for precast and in situ concrete; falsework for brick or stone construction.
