Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	History and introduction
2	Material properties, fire behaviour
3	Advantages and disadvantages of timber material, use in structures
4	Design principles according to EC 5
5	Joinery (cogging) connections
6	Nailed connections, screws, bolts and studs (pins)
7	Connections using wedges
8	Tension member
9	Compression members, buckling length
10	Built-up compression members
11	Beams with a single cross section
12	Beams with box cross section
13	Truss beams
14	Timber roof systems, loads and stability bracings