• Timber Framing
• Log Building
• Barns

• Wood Resources
• Tools/Materials/Suppliers
• Journals and Indexes

TIMBER FRAMING

• Timber Framers Guild of North America
  The source for timber framing.
   
• Timber Frame Business Council  
  "A non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the benefits of timber frame construction."
   
• Historic American Timber Joinery
   "A graphic guide written and illustrated by Jack Sobon...intended to discuss and illustrate joints in traditional American timber-framed buildings."  A print copy is available in the library of the Perth campus.
   
• Driving Out Wooden Pegs  
  A few pointers from Rudy Christian.
   
• Canadian Wood Council.
   
• Structural Insulated Panel Association  
  Information on stress skin panels.
   
• The Construction and history of medieval timber-framed houses in England and Wales
   
• Seventeenth-Century Timber Framing 
  From the Plymouth Colony Archive Project, this site documents the construction of a period timber frame house in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Text adapted from "The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony © by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz.
   
• Timber Framed Buildings and Roofs
  Article reproduced from The Building Conservation Directory (1993).

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LOG BUILDING

• International Log Builders' Association
  PDF downloads available from this site include:  Log building standards (includes Log chinking standards); Protecting and finishing log buildings fact sheet; Thermal properties of log homes, etc. 
   
• Preservation and repair of historic log buildings 
  NPS Preservation Brief # 26.
   
• Log crown repair and selective replacement using epoxy and fiberglass reinforcing rebars
  A Preservation Tech Note (Exterior woodwork - number 3) from the Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings of the National Park Service (U.S.).
   
• Log Homes Council - National Association of Home Builders
  "...a national organization with membership comprised of manufacturers of log homes."   The section "Log Home Library" includes technical papers on
  fasteners, energy performance, insect control, etc.
   
• LogHomeLinks.com   
  A listing of FAQ's and articles related to log building from a variety of mostly commercial sources. 
   
• Log World.com  
  A directory of log home builders, manufacturers, designers, etc.  This site includes reprints of selected articles from the magazine The Canadian Log House in addition to articles on products, supplies, techniques, etc.

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BARNS

• Barn Again
  "A national (U.S.) program to preserve historic farm buildings sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Successful Farming magazine."  Includes an extensive bibliography on barn preservation.
   
• The Barn Journal  
   "Dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of traditional farm architecture."  Another site with many barn-related links.
   
• The Preservation of historic barns 
  NPS Preservation Brief  # 20.
   
• History of barns in Canada : historical perspectives on agricultural structures  (Part one) and  (Part two) 
   "Taken from a paper written by Ineke Van Zeeland as part of an assigned undergraduate project leading to a B.Eng. degree."   Posted on the Heritage Ottawa website.
   
• Taking care of your old barn  
  A basic guide to caring for historic barns produced by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board.

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WOOD RESOURCES

• Handling, erection and bracing of wood trusses
  A PDF document from The Truss Plate Institute of Canada on guidelines for the safe installation of wood trusses.
   
• Wood Durability
  "The Wood Durability web site is a joint project provided to you by the Canadian Wood Council and Forintek Canada Corp."   This site contains an excellent list of annotated links as well as a number of PDF documents.
   
• Protecting woodwork against decay using borate preservatives
  A Preservation Tech Note (Exterior woodwork - number 4) from the Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings of the National Park Service (U.S.).
   
• Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material
  A classic from the Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) in downloadable (PDF) format.
   
• Algonquin College - LRC - Subject guide to Forestry has many links to wood-related sites.

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TOOLS / MATERIALS / SUPPLIERS

• Barr Specialty Tools
   
• Mafell Tools
   
• TimberWolf Tools
   
• build.recycle.net- Used building materials
  Used / reusable lumber & wood exchange.   Includes a directory to many timber, barn wood salvagers. 

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JOURNALS AND INDEXES

• Timber Framing  
  Online index to the Journal of the Timber Framer's Guild. 
  Note: Issues of this journal can be found in the library at the Perth campus
   
• Fine Homebuilding 
  Index to Fine Homebuilding articles.
  Note: Issues of this magazine can be found in the library at the Perth campus.
   
• APT (Association for Preservation Technology) Bulletin
  Follow the links from Publications to APT Bulletin to APT Bulletin Search for a searchable index to articles. 
  Note:  Issues of this journal can be found in the library at the Perth campus.
   

Check the online databases to find articles from magazines and journals on masonry topics.   Some examples include:

• Proquest Career & Technical Education
  Includes articles from Building Design & Construction; Buildings; Professional Builder, Timber Trades Journal, etc.
   
• Canadian Newsstand for newspaper articles.

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