Types of timber
The term ‘timber’ is used to refer to the wood at any stage after the tree has been felled. This can include the raw material, also known as rough timber or the processed material.
This article presents a list of types of timber used in the construction industry, with links to articles providing further information.
- Bamboo.
- Birch.
- Cedar.
- Cherry.
- Cross-laminated timber.
- Engineered bamboo.
- Glulam.
- Green timber.
- Hardwood.
- Laminated veneer lumber LVL.
- Lime.
- Modified wood.
- Mahogany.
- Oak.
- Oriented strand board.
- Padauk wood.
- Pine.
- Plywood.
- Sapele wood.
- Softwood.
- Sycamore.
- Tulipwood.
- Unwrot timber / sawn timber.
- Walnut.
- Wood ash.
- Wrot timber (wrought timber / dressed timber / finished timber / planed timber)
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