Timber engineering

Wooden bridge near Essing

For Expo 2000 built in Hanover wooden roof

The timber engineering , more rarely, wood engineering , based on knowledge of modern wood technology and engineering and borders in the timber from the craft-oriented carpentry beings from. In particular, through the use of glued laminated timber , wood-based materials and computer-aided structural engineering methods , large-scale wooden structures (halls, bridges, towers) are possible with wood as a building material .

The basis for timber engineering is DIN EN 1995-1-1 (formerly DIN 1052). This contains all the essential calculation rules and strength values ​​of the wood and wood-based materials used.

Examples are the so-called EXPO roof on the exhibition grounds in Hanover or the wooden bridge near Essing .