LOW INTRUSION CONSERVATION SYSTEMS FOR TIMBER STRUCTURES
Progress
The project activities commenced with a pre-project meeting at Oxford Brookes University, UK, on 31st May 2002, ahead of the contracted start date.
Progress at the time of updating this website is summarised below:
WORK
PACKAGE
A
Conceptual Design, Appraisal and
System Characterisation
Task
1 – Appraisal and viability assessments
Subtasks initiated, under task leadership of TRADA Technology. Target
for completion: Month 7, with any necessary modification in months
7-12.
Task 2 – Engineering and Materials Science Inputs
Subtasks initiated, under task leadership of Rotafix. Target for
completion: Month 7 with any necessary supplementary tests concluded
by month 12.
Task 3 – Definition / Modelling of Selected
Configurations
Subtasks initiated, under task leadership of TRADA Technology. Target
for completion: Month 7.
WORK
PACKAGE
B:
Design, Analysis and Testing
Task 4 - Design Optimisation
Subtasks due to commence in month 5, under task leadership of Oxford
Brookes University. Target for completion: Month 12
Task 5 - Physical Testing and Prototyping
Preliminary phase of subtask
5.3 (Development of Structural Eurocode -type principles) initiated, under
task leadership of TRADA Technology. Target for reporting: Month 12
with follow-on conclusion to testing subtask 5.2 by month 18.
WORK
PACKAGE
C:
Process Specifications
Task 6 – Development of Specifications and Quality Tools
Subtasks initiated, under task leadership of STAP. Target for
completion: Month 14.
Work
package
D:
Execution and Fabrication
Task 7 – Procedures for Making Prefabricated Elements
Subtasks due to commence in month 9, under task leadership of LegnoDOC.
Task 8 – Procedures for Making Connections on Site
Subtasks initiated, under task leadership of Rotafix. Target for
reporting: Month 18 with follow-on conclusion to subtasks 8.4 and
8.5 by month 23.
Task 9 – Real Life Case-Study Trials
Preliminary phase of subtasks initiated, under task leadership of ECC.
Target for reporting: Month 18 with follow-on conclusion to subtasks
by month 23.
Work
package
E:
Protection, Conservation, Cultural Measures and Knowledge Encapsulation
Task 10 – Documentation and Development of
Computer Websites
Subtasks initiated,
under task leadership of LegnoDOC.
First completed task is the production of the first version of this
project website (June'02).
Task 11 – Knowledge Encapsulation, Dissemination
and Training
Subtasks due to commence through
later stages of the project, unifying the outputs from individual work
tasks as they become available, under task leadership of Rotafix.
