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Practitioners’ opinions about the EN 1995 – German point of view in comparison with the rest of Europe

The COST Action FP1402 aims to overcome the existing gap in the timber construction world between broadly available scientific results and the specific information needed by designers, industry, authorities and code committees, providing transfer for practical application in timber design and innovation [1]. Its results will provide some background knowledge for the development of the so-called Second Generation of the Eurocodes, aimed at 2020 [2]. Within the Working Group 3 of the Action, it was decided to develop a questionnaire to get the opinion of the practitioners about the content and structure of the Eurocode 5. The idea of this questionnaire research therefore was to get feedback about the problems faced by practitioners in using the code to make our engagements with the code writers more meaningful. The questionnaire was spread across Europe to engineering practitioners, manufacturers and academia in the hope that key problems would be identified. The questionnaire was divided into four parts: general information about the respondents, general issues of EN 1995 [3], issues with Chapter 8 and specific issues with fasteners. The questionnaire was filled out by 412 respondents from 28 European countries and 5 non-European countries. Most answers came from Germany (23, 8%). In this paper comparison of different point of views from Germany and the rest of Europe on the EN 1995 will be showed.

eurocode 5, timber structures, norms, practitioners

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