Engineered wood | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-07-04

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00:02:21 1 Types of products
00:02:30 1.1 Plywood
00:03:18 1.2 Densified wood
00:03:52 1.2.1 Chemically densified wood
00:05:09 1.3 Fibreboard
00:05:33 1.4 Particle board
00:06:26 1.5 Oriented strand board
00:07:38 1.6 Laminated timber
00:08:11 1.7 Laminated veneer
00:09:06 1.8 Cross laminated
00:09:50 1.9 Parallel strand
00:10:37 1.10 Laminated strand
00:11:40 1.11 Finger joint
00:12:04 1.12 Beams
00:12:56 1.13 Trusses
00:13:35 1.14 Transparent wood composites
00:13:57 2 Advantages
00:16:36 3 Disadvantages
00:17:31 4 Properties
00:18:13 5 Engineered wood flooring manufacturing
00:18:24 5.1 Lamella
00:18:54 5.2 Core/substrate
00:21:06 5.3 Aesthetics
00:21:49 6 Adhesives
00:23:05 6.1 Health concerns
00:25:12 7 Other fixations
00:25:44 8 Standards
00:29:57 9 See also



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Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation to form composite material. The panels vary in size but can range upwards of 64 by 8 feet (20m x 2.4m) and in the case of CLT can be of any thickness from a few inches to 16 inches or more.  These products are engineered to precise design specifications which are tested to meet national or international standards. Engineered wood products are used in a variety of applications, from home construction to commercial buildings to industrial products. The products can be used for joists and beams that replace steel in many building projects. The term Mass Timber to describe this group of building materials was popularized by architect Michael Green (Michael Green Architecture), a prominent champion of engineered timber construction. Typically, engineered wood products are made from the same hardwoods and softwoods used to manufacture lumber. Sawmill scraps and other wood waste can be used for engineered wood composed of wood particles or fibers, but whole logs are usually used for veneers, such as plywood, MDF or particle board. Some engineered wood products, like oriented strand board (OSB), can use trees from the poplar family, a common but non-structural species.

Alternatively, it is also possible to manufacture similar engineered bamboo from bamboo; and similar engineered cellulosic products from other lignin-containing materials such as rye straw, wheat straw, rice straw, hemp stalks, kenaf stalks, or sugar cane residue, in which case they contain no actual wood but rather vegetable fibers.
Flat pack furniture is typically made out of man-made wood due to its low manufacturing costs and its low weight.