Thanks to high-performance composite structures made of wood and steel or concrete wooden
buildings are now being erected far beyond the high-rise boundaries. An end to the increase in
altitude is hardly in sight. Wooden constructions are also on the uptrend in residential and
office construction sports halls industrial buildings and bridges. They are the epitome of
sustainable building and thanks to new prefabrication processes are also competitive in terms
of construction costs. The book shows the current development of structural planning with wood
on the basis of 20 outstanding engineering structures. The engineers involved in the planning
describe the conception of the supporting structures as well as individual solutions for their
implementation.
