BS EN 350-2:1994 Durability of wood and wood-based products - Natural durability of solid wood - Guide to natural durability and treatability of selected wood species of importance in Europe
This Part of EN 350 lists the natural durability of solid wood for selected wood species, considered of importance to the countries within Europe for constructional purposes. It lists their relative durability to
— wood-destroying fungi
— dry wood-destroying beetles
— termites
— marine organisms.
It also gives information relating to their treatability, origin, density, and sapwood width.
NOTE. The omission of a species does not imply that it is unsuitable for use. A species may have been omitted because it was not considered of sufficient importance to be included, or because no or insufficient data were available to classify it.
This Part of EN 350 does not give service lives for components but gives a ranking of various wood species in order to allow comparison of unknown species with well known ones.
BS EN 350-2:1994 history
2016BS EN 350:2016 Durability of wood and wood-based products. Testing and classification of the durability to biological agents of wood and wood-based materials
1994BS EN 350-2:1994 Durability of wood and wood-based products - Natural durability of solid wood - Guide to natural durability and treatability of selected wood species of importance in Europe