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The articles published in this open access journal stem from the work of COST Action

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This report provides an overview of the findings of the COST Action C8. The main objective of the Action was to increase the knowledge and to promote the use of effective, scientifically robust and well divided methodologies for decision-making, based on the use of performance indicators for urban infrastructure services. Moreover, they encourage utilities to use them as routine management tools.

The aim of this pocket guide is to bring together all relevant information about COST into an “easy to use” publication. This guide covers the whole of the COST system for research cooperation in Europe, including information about COST governance, contact points and financial instruments plus, most importantly, the COST Actions.

The objective of the joint conference was to record the current state-of-the-art for connections in timber engineering, and to illustrate how new developments will be adopted in the next generation of Timber Design Standards (e.g. Eurocode 5:2022). It was an opportunity to hear presentations from some of the world’s leading experts and to join discussions on the design, application and performance of Connections in Timber Engineering. There were presentations on current performance indicators, (e.g. strength, stiffness and ductile vs. brittle failure modes), as well as applications of connections in cross-laminated timber and timber-concrete composite structures. The Conference will also include presentations on current developments of design rules (e.g. for brittle failure modes, reinforcement and seismic design) and give an outlook on the potential of numerical modelling and probabilistic methods for future design of efficient and reliable connections.

This special issue results from the work of Working Group 2, Task Force 3 of the Cost Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”.