Wood Preservation Standards

American Wood-Preservers' Association's 466-pg. 1999 Book of Standards now available. All 96 of AWPA"s Standards for wood preservatives and for preservative treated wood products. CD-ROM version included with every order. Standards of interest to the building products industry revised in 1999:

C2-99 Lumber, Timber

C9-99 Plywood

C28-99 LaminatedMembers

M4-99 Care of Preservative Treated Wood

C2O-99 & C27 -99 Fire Retardant Treated Lumber & Plywood

Introduced in 1999: the Use Category System for specifying treated wood. Most building construction applications will be Use Categories I and 2 (interior construction above ground), 3 (exterior construction above ground), and 4 (ground and fresh water contact). This simplified system will soon be the method of specifying treated wood.

$ l8 1 per copy, prepaid, sent by Priority Mail ($81 for AWPA Members). U.S. addresses only for foreign purchases add $15.

American Wood-Preservers' Association, P.O. Box 5690, Granbury, TX76049 Phone: (8 1 7) 326-6300. F ax: 817 -326-6306.