How Do You Select The Best Engineered Wood Products For Building?
You may not quite realize it, but every time you’ve made use of a simple sheet of plywood, you have experimented with an engineered wood product, or EWP. Come along as this architect explains more about this growing technology. An engineered wood product is a product in which its core components, typically wood scraps or wood materials of marginal utility, have been engineered and assembled for viable – and quite often structural – applications. As nations of the world continue to deplete natural resources of softwood timber around the globe, and as conventional dimensional lumber thereby becomes scarcer and pricier, EWPs will become increasingly essential to the construction industry. Already many architects and contractors rely on EWPs of one type or another. Plywood is the best known and most widely used of all EWPs. Benefiting from the multi-directional strength of thin layers of wood laminated in alternating directions, it resists the warping, cupping and checking rife among poore
