print email comment close Building Materials and Wood Technology URL: http://bct.nrc.umass.edu/ Description: A site that covers construction and related materials. Questions about building materials, forest products, wood, economics, and residential construction as well as those about business and marketing in the building materials industry can be answered for free at Ask the Experts . Feature Articles include: selecting windows, decoding building codes, controlling termites and carpenter ants, sizing and calculating loads for headers and beams, watertight details, using span table for joists, and many related topics. Additionally, there is collection of links, some annotated, on the building field including associations, building materials, construction, energy efficiency, research and building codes, publications, and more. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Building materials Building materials industry Building, Wooden LII Database Information: Record 5678 created by Dana Lubow on 10/22/1999 Last modification on 09/04/2009 Published: 10/22/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5678