Download or read book Timber Construction for Trade, Industry, Administration written by Wolfgang Ruske and published by Birkhauser Architecture. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timber construction has always been a domain of prefabricated building. For "good", i.e. architecturally convincing and long-lasting timber architecture, the technical circumstances of production must be taken into account, the detailing must be appropriate to the material and, of course, the structural design should reflect the particular structural requirements. In addition, thanks to their "human" dimension and thanks also to the ecological qualities of wood as a building material, commercial, industrial and office buildings offer new chances to create a more humane working world, one that can have a positive effect on the working climate in the individual companies as well as on productivity. Corporate design - the presentation of a company using architecture as a means of business communication - today represents an important reason for businesses to build in timber.