Webinar Mitek

‘Wooden trusses on metal toothed plates for construction and reconstruction’

Watch a fragment of the webinar on November 8, 2016.

Link to watch the video.

Questions we will consider:

1. History of the connector plate;

2. Where and why should wooden trusses be used?;

3. Why is Europe built this way? Experience of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Great Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia. Differences between markets in Eastern and Western Europe in the use of trusses.

4. Why does private housing switch to trusses?

5. Why is it beneficial to use wood in industrial and agricultural buildings?

6. Large spans closed with wood. Advantages on examples of built objects.