In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
Could you not get the engineer to redo calcs without using C16?
They seem to quite often specify timber grades even when they
aren't actually necessary.

C16 is ordinary structural softwood. A piece of timber that
wouldn't get graded as such would be rejected by any carpenter
that knows his job.

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