A report on overseas wood technology and developments

"This document is essentially a trip report. It describes activities of the author while in North America from October 1981 through january 1982 on a "mini study leave". Objectives of the trip were to gather information useful to a planned postgraduate structural timber technology course intended to commence in 1984 at the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education and to gain technology updates for the Australian timber and timber related industries..."--p. i.