CONSTRUCTION

MATERIALS
AND TESTING
ACTIVITY 3

ALEXIS D. ROGUEL
CE141.A06.
3 HARDWOODS
• Varies in form, from a small tree,
with drooping branches, to an
erect, straight tree that grows
from 18 to 33 meters high.
• One of the country’s
hardest woods.
• Native to the Philippines
• Source of a valuable timber that is
used locally and traded as wood
carvings.
• Kamagong’s conservation
status is vulnerable.
• Deep roots make it an
effective windbreak
• A tree that reaches a height
of 8 to 15 meters.
• Native to the Philippines.
• It is one of the widely
harvested and hardest
woods, which led to its
endangered classification.
• Used like teak for
shipbuilding and
construction in contact
with the ground.
MOLAVE TREE
• Known in the Philippines
for its extremely hard
wood with a density of
940 kg/m3 at 15%
moisture, resistant to
fungal, termite, and
Lyctus beetle attack, but
not to marine borers.
• Common in secondary
and open primary
forests at low altitudes
throughout the
Philippines in most or
all islands and
provinces.
• Philippines’ National tree
• Noted for its hardiness and
rapid growth.
• a majestic reddish hard
wood tree, growing to 33
meters high and 2
meters in diameter with
an irregular fluted trunk.
• Grown from seeds and cuttings.
• A much sought-after wood
for its durability and use in
floorings, cabinetry,
construction, furniture
making, decorative
carvings, and musical
instruments.
• A preferred wood for boat-
making because of
resistance to seawater.
3 SOFTWOODS
 • Widely planted as a
• A large umbraculiform shade tree and avenue
tree growing to a height tree.
of 20 to 25 meters.
• In some places,
• Throughout the spontaneous.
Philippines in waste
places along roads and
trails in fallow, rice
paddies, etc.
• Introduced here about
• Popularly used in 1860 from tropical
carving, making America.
tables, wood basins
and bowls. • Now pantropic in
cultivation.

ACACIA
• B deciduous, erect tree
• Cultivated for the
growing to a height of 10
commerce of its wood.
meters, with a heavy,
dark-green, and dense
crown. • Native of the West
Indies.
• Recently introduction
in the Philippines.
• Because of its fast
growth, it is much
• A popular material for desired in Manila as a
making of furniture, shade tree.
musical instruments,
boats, caskets.
 • Used for pulp, particle
• The tree attains board, plywood,
moderate to large matches, carpentry
heights of up to 30 m, and packing.
with a girth of 1.2 to 4 m.
• It is also used for
• A deciduous tree that
construction at boards,
grows remarkably fast,
carving and musical
gmelina is a common
instruments.
sight as a shade tree
along country roads in
the Philippines. • It is often planted as an
ornamental avenue
• The wood makes a fairly shade tree.
good charcoal.

GMELINA TREE