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Green Oak in Construction

Green Oak in Construction is a highly illustrated general and technical guide to the use of green oak. The authors describe the whole process of green oak construction from the design, framing and enclosing the structures. In the series of contemporary case studies they show how to use green oak to best effect, together with supporting design data and specifying advice.

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Publisher
TRADA Technology Ltd

Author
Peter Ross, Christopher Mettem and Andrew Holloway

ISBN
978-900510-45-5

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The detailed chapters provide information on the past and present history of green oak, covering its supply, properties, design and the whole framing process to its enclosing and exterior uses.

The case studies illustrate a range of projects from historic reconstructions that are a significant and highly specialised area of green oak construction requiring extensive research to the more modern and traditionally designed frames.

One such historic construction is exemplified by the roof of Stirling Castle undertaken by Carpenter Oak and Woodland to re-build the roof as a replica of the original using set aside local Scottish oak.

A more traditional and modest scale model of construction which forms the basis of much of the work by Carpenter Oak and Woodland is shown in the case study of Mill O’Braco House where the new wing was based on five oak frames using interlocking and pegged joints.

A partnership between Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects and Carpenter Oak and Woodland proposed a more modern green oak frame with a contemporary idiom, using metal-assisted joints was used at Bedales Theatre School, Guildford, Surrey.

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