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Overview
Specifying Timber Construction and Landscape
Structures
Hot Tub Cover. This simple structure
adds design flare and protection to this backyard hot
tub. Structural Appearance posts and framing have been
left to wheather naturally. |
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Shade House. Clear Cedar frames
out the roof of this shady retreat. The surface
lumber is finished in a natural tone semi-transparent
stain. |
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Western Red Cedar for Timber Construction
and Landscape Structures
The field of construction using solid sawn lumber is greatly
diversified. It covers many types of engineered structures;
commercial, industrial and residential buildings; and landscape
structures such as bridges, arbors, pergolas, gazebos, field
houses and the like. In general, applications can be classified
into two very broad use-groups: first, for those structures
such as large buildings in which both the strength and the appearance
of exposed wood members are of equal importance; and second,
in landscape, park and garden structures where appearance is
paramount.
For both use-groups, Western Red Cedar offers the advantages
of natural beauty, design flexibility, exceptional dimensional
stability and long term durability. Cedar has a long history
of withstanding the rigors of time and weather. It is also a
recognized structural material with known mechanical and physical
properties (see WRCLA publication Designers' Handbook). These
attributes allow the design of timber structures of all types
using basic engineering principles and stress- or appearance-rated
grades of cedar.
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