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Design detailing that keeps water off end grain affects the service life of exterior wood more than moving one EN 350 durability class.

Under review — the register is reading the literature and will publish a conclusion once directional evidence has been indexed.

In plain terms

24 studies are indexed, but only 0 have been classified for or against — too few to state a consensus, so no share is calculated yet.

This sentence is generated from the same numbers shown below — consensus share, confidence band and the number of indexed studies. Open any section to see exactly how it was reached.

Version 7 · WI-EV v1.0.0 · last swept 2026-08-29

Evidence Score

23

0–100, rule-based

Confidence

Low confidence

Too few, too old or too conflicting sources to specify from.

Consensus

Not yet calculated

0 support · 0 contradict · 24 unclassified · 0 directionally assessed

Studies

24

2003–2026

Confidence is limited most by volume of evidence (0/30).

Behind the answer

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How the score is built6 weighted components, 23/100 total
Volume of evidence

0 directional studies, weighted by grade.

0/30
Study quality

Mean evidence grade 30/100 across the pool.

7/25
Agreement

Not scored: only 0 directional studies (3 needed).

0/20
Peer review

50% published in peer-reviewed venues.

5/10
Recency

Median publication year 2021.

10/10
Reproducibility

29% resolvable by DOI and independently checkable.

1/5
Where the literature disagreesNo direct contradictions in the indexed pool

No direct contradictions in the indexed pool. That is not the same as agreement — it can also mean too few directional studies have been published to disagree yet.

How the consensus moved over timeConsensus recomputed using only the evidence published up to each year
YearPublishedCumulativeSupportContradictConsensus
200311000%
200412000%
200613000%
201714000%
201826000%
202017000%
202129000%
2022110000%
2024111000%
2025213000%
2026114000%
Revision history6 published revisions
  1. v71 new study indexed, Evidence Score -1 to 23.2026-08-29 · score 23 · 0%
  2. v63 new studies indexed, Evidence Score +1 to 24.2026-08-15 · score 24 · 0%
  3. v55 new studies indexed.2026-08-09 · score 23 · 0%
  4. v4Evidence Score -20 to 23.2026-08-08 · score 23 · 0%
  5. v31 new study indexed, Evidence Score +2 to 43.2026-08-08 · score 43 · 0%
  6. v214 new studies indexed, Evidence Score +41 to 41.2026-08-08 · score 41 · 0%
Every indexed record24 studies with stance, grade and citation count

Full GSA 2025 Abstract Book PDF

2025

The abstract-book title provides no finding about exterior wood, end-grain detailing, or EN 350 durability classes.

Neutral

Grade C · 0 citations

Peer-reviewed

Studies on durability of sustainable biobased composites: a review

Boon Peng Chang, Amar K. Mohanty, Manjusri Misra · 2020 · RSC Advances · doi:10.1039/c9ra09554c

The review concerns biobased composites rather than exterior wood detailing, end-grain wetting, or EN 350 durability classes.

Neutral

Grade A · 257 citations

Peer-reviewed

Life cycle assessment of exterior cladding components

I.M. Shohet · 2006 · ConcreteLife'06 - International RILEM-JCI Seminar on Concrete Durability and Service Life Planning: Curing, Crack Control, Performance in Harsh Environments · doi:10.1617/291214390x.034

The title addresses cladding life-cycle assessment without comparing end-grain detailing and EN 350 durability classes.

Neutral

Grade D · 0 citations

Peer-reviewed

Integrated life-cycle design of coatings on exterior wood

L Strömberg, J Ekstedt · 2004 · Surface Coatings International Part B: Coatings Transactions · doi:10.1007/bf02699606

The title addresses coating life-cycle design but gives no comparison between end-grain water protection and EN 350 durability class.

Neutral

Grade D · 1 citations

Peer-reviewed

Durability design: form, materials and detailing

2003 · Building the Future · doi:10.1201/9781482271263-10

The title links detailing with durability but states no comparative effect versus an EN 350 class change.

Neutral

Grade D · 0 citations

Peer-reviewed

Stance classification is automated and reviewed against each record's own abstract; it is a reading of the literature, not a measurement. The Evidence Score is a rule-based function of indexed metadata under method WI-EV v1.0.0 and does not constitute proof of the statement.

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APA
WoodIntel. (2026). Design detailing that keeps water off end grain affects the service life of exterior wood more than moving one EN 350 durability class. (Evidence Engine WI-EV v1.0.0, claim version 7). Retrieved 2026-08-30, from https://woodintel.io/evidence/detailing-outweighs-durability-class
BibTeX
@misc{woodintel_detailing_outweighs_durability_class_2026,
  title  = {Design detailing that keeps water off end grain affects the service life of exterior wood more than moving one EN 350 durability class.},
  author = {{WoodIntel}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Evidence Engine WI-EV v1.0.0, claim version 7, accessed 2026-08-30},
  url    = {https://woodintel.io/evidence/detailing-outweighs-durability-class}
}
Open API
curl https://woodintel.io/api/public/v1/evidence?claim=detailing-outweighs-durability-class

Returns the score, the indexed studies with stance and grade, the contradictions, the timeline and the full revision history. Open under CC BY 4.0 — API documentation.