The course focuses on wood as a renewable building material and on how it can be treated for good durability. In the course, an overview of the preconditions of the wooden material is given its durability properties and the preconditions for good durability and long service life of timber structures.
The course covers wood as building material from microscopical level to applications in load carrying designs and architecture, consequences of deterioration factors for uses in outdoor environment, water contact and preconditions for maintaince over time and how wood can be treated and designed to facilitate this.
In addition the course goes through maintenance during operation, administration and inspection and the legislation that applies to durability and durability classified wood products.
On completion of the course, the course participant should be able to:
- Explain the factors that influence durability of wood-based materials
- Explain the difference between natural durability and wood protection treatments
- Discribe the importance of the durability for sustainability, life cycle and service life and how these aspects can be influenced by means of wood protection treatments.
- Explain how treatments for decreased moisture sorption differ from rot resistance
- Describe the most important methods to improve the durability of wood
- Describe principles that contribute to choose sutable wooden materials
- Describe the causes of and principles of design based wood protection and how this can be integrated in design and architecture in wood
- Describe the bases for the different classes according to the NTR system
- Desscribe strategies for service life based design
- Based on given preconditions be able to suggest and design materials and design solutions for good durability of a wooden building.
