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The aim of this thesis is to create a detailed documentation of the historic granary in Miroslav and supplementation this documentation on structural and technical research. The granary was built in the Baroque period and is among the cultural monuments. The main impulse preparation of documentation was extensive damage and causation of damage of wooden structures and efforts to save the entire building with an emphasis on preserving historical values. In the first step in the preliminary research were identified the dimensions of the elements of the structure, the type truss system was determined. Further survey focused on determining the extent and causes of damage. Finally, the repair option and further use of granary was considered.

Unrestrained population growth especially in the developing countries, the necessity for existence as well as the desire for comfort are the major causes of environmental resources depletion in the world with particular reference to Ghana. One of the most exploited environmental resources in Ghana which is mostly not replaced is vegetation specifically trees. This paper aims to look into the effect of charcoal and wood fuel on Ghana's vegetation. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches were used in data collection and analysis. These methods include: questionnaire and interview. The findings show that charcoal and wood fuel is the means of revenue for the people of Varimpere village leading to desertification due to the source of domestic fire in use. Also other means of domestic fuel such as wind, solar, kerosene, electricity, coal and gas are not made available at affordable rates and therefore does not encourage the use of continuous and constant supply. Shea and Mahogany trees were the most preferred species due to the quality of charcoal and wood fuel products it produces. The findings also revealed that forestry services division whose role is to regulate the cutting of trees was not playing this role well due to inadequate personnel, logistics among others. The study concluded that measures of mitigating desertification such as afforestation and planting trees programs. Also some mitigation measures included creation of other jobs such formation of women groups to encourage the expansion of the Shea butter processing industry.

The aim of this thesis was to carry out a search based on available literature that focused on historical development of timbered houses in the Czech Republic that are intended for permanent living. A survey was conducted subsequently to this search. This survey concentrated on firms that nowadays build timbered houses and also on construction solutions and structure composition of such houses. The conducted survey describes prevalent construction solutions of timbered houses in the current housebuilding sector of the Czech market. The thesis focuses on thermal properties of today's timbered wooden structures. Next, an indicative measurement of these buildings was carried out by a blower door test and thermal imaging diagnostics. Furthermore, the thesis compares timbered structures with standard requirements for permanent housing. Interestingly, the measurements for instance showed that one new building met the requirements of the blower door test. Next, several thermography measurements demonstrated seamless heat transfer of a timbered wall as a whole. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes the current use and construction of timbered houses in the Czech Republic. Moreover, it sums up the results of the measurements and outlines the survey results regarding the thermal properties of these houses.

The goal of this Thesis is to design a wooden supporting structure of a production hall based on requirements given by an investor and to compare possible design solutions. Theoretical first part of this thesis describes wooden structures in general, especially specifications of wood as a building material, basic designing rules, various types of material joints and constructions classification. In second part of this thesis two draft designs were created with RSTAB and TRUSS4 software and the optimal solutions is presented. Valid Czech and EU standards were followed in design creation and calculation.