T&D Poles are an Electric Utility's Greatest Single Infrastructure Investment. They represent one of the utility's biggest risks, as pole failure can seriously impact public safety and reliability.

AWPA Standard, E10, Standard Method of Testing Wood Preservatives by Laboratory Soil-Block Cultures. Also, ASTM D1413 and WDMA TM-1. The soil block decay test is a highly standardized means for ...

Last month, a seismic shake test was conducted on a 10-story wooden structure—the world’s tallest building to be tested on a shake table earthquake simulator. The goal? To validate the strength of ...

Q. We are making hickory dowels and have two questions: Why are some dowels more pink in color and why are some apparently weaker than others. The last thing we need is a broken chair rung or even a ...

In this video, we compare the strength of Sika fence post foam against rapid-setting concrete by installing two timber posts one with fence post foam and the other with concrete. We assess the ...

Timber construction continues its march to mass market feasibility following a series of live blast tests on full-scale cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures. Through a series of tests conducted at ...