Since the dominant use of wood is in housing and other structures, there will be a gradual shift from cost-driven to performance driven materials, subsystems, and systems. Products that are cost-driven will succeed only when they also have higher performance. The bottom line is that a number of pressures are coming to the forefront as there is more realization that housing can be expected to perform better over a longer period of time. And the only way that will happen is through standards for materials as they perform in service. The Effect of Time on Nominal Performance of Materials Figure 2.
Research needs for the treating industry.
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