Lumber

Lumber

Timber after it has been sawed and split into planks or other smaller components that can be used as building material.

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Pack stick

Building materials; Lumber

A strip of wood or another material that is placed between rows of lumber or other wood products in a rack. Rack sticks are placed at right angles to the long axis of the lumber to permit air to ...

Environmental management systems

Building materials; Lumber

Environmental management systems are systems that ensure the organisation is working within the framework of ecologically sustainable development. These systems can be formal or informal. Formal ...

A kiln working on the heat pump principle. Moisture evaporated from the lumber by a flow of warm air is condensed on the evaporator coils of a refrigeration unit and drained away. The refrigerant is ...

Green building

Building materials; Lumber

This is a loosely defined collection of land-use, building design, and construction strategies that reduces undesirable environmental impacts. Benefits of building green include reduced energy ...

Mutual recognition

Building materials; Lumber

Mutual recognition with regards to forest certification is taken to encompass that minimum requirements have been met or that there is equivalence in the standards. That is, the countries agree to ...

Hysteresis

Building materials; Lumber

As applied to lumber's moisture content, the tendency of dried wood to reach equilibrium with any specified temperature and relative humidity at a lower moisture content when absorbing moisture from ...

Metre

Building materials; Lumber

Electric Resistance Moisture - A metre that measures the electrical resistance of lumber, which is converted to a reading of lumber moisture content. They are usually calibrated for Douglas Fir. The ...