This unique handbook shows you what you can do with glued engineered wood composites in both residential and nonresidential building construction applications -- products that not only perform better than traditional solid wood products, but also reduce the pressure on available wood fiber resources. The APA Engineered Wood Handbook provides standards and guidelines for getting the most from some of the most exciting wood based materials available in construction today. Book jacket.

All the information, formulas, procedures, and examples that you need to design virtually any type of wood structure of structural wood component - that's what you get in this indispensable handbook.