Acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for the design, construction and maintenance of the common structures of timber, glulam and wood-based products.

Students competence for solving problems of everyday practice in the construction of timber structures.

Wood as a structural building material. Wood properties - physical, mechanical, technical. Actions, allowed stresses and limit states (ultimate and serviceability). Wood-fire relationship. Fasteners. Design of bearing capacity and stability of the wood elements according to the current regulations. Carpenter joints. Joints and connections with fasteners in the timber structures. Timber roofs: traditional wooden roofs and truss structures. Building systems made from timber and wood-based panels. Glue Laminated timber (glulam) - production, design of straight and curved beams of varying and constant cross-section. Joints, connections and supports of glulam structures. The spatial stability of structures with frame made of solid and/or glulam timber. Assembly, protection and maintenance of timber buildings.

Course is done through lectures (PowerPoint presentations), numerical-graphic tasks (ilustrative examples and case studies), as well as tutorials. Attendance is obligatory. Pre-exam obligations are: two design homeworks (independently or in organized teams) with explanation of suggested solution. Exam consist from colloquium, written and oral part. To pass succesfully, students must meet the required knowledge level from all forms of pre-exam and exams obligations.