Meet the editor

Giovanna Concu is Assistant Professor of Structural Design at the University of Cagliari, Italy, where she teaches Timber and Masonry Structures and Laboratory of Structural Rehabilitation. She studied Structural Engineering and was awarded a PhD in Geoengineering. She has authored about eighty papers and is a reviewer for international journals and scientific associations. She has been involved in a number of research projects funded by

regional, national and international public and private agencies. Her research interests include sustainability in buildings and constructions, timber engineering, and non-destructive testing. Currently she is dealing with the mechanical behavior of cross-laminated and glue-laminated timber elements made with low-graded timber and in the development of short supply chain and circular economy schemes that aim at the use of local materials for the building industry.

Contents

*by Giovanna Concu*

Implementation Frame

Wood-Based Panel Industry *by Hasan Tezcan Yildirim*

Southern Cone and the U.S. South

*by Meng Gong*

Home

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 101**

**Chapter 7 115**

Raw Material Demand-Supply and Policy Recommendations of Turkish

Timber Harvesting Production, Costs, Innovation, and Capacity in the

*by Patricio Mac Donagh, Joshua Roll, George Hahn and Frederick Cubbage*

Introductory Chapter: Timber and Sustainability in Construction

Structural Design of a Typical American Wood-Framed Single-Family

Communicating Added Value in Wooden Multistorey Construction

Operative Machinery Costs Analysis within Forest Management

*by Cecilia Mark-Herbert, Elin Kvennefeldt and Anders Roos*

Lumber-Based Mass Timber Products in Construction

*by Anthony C. Jellen and Ali M. Memari*

*by Francesco Carbone and Rodolfo Picchio*
