This paper presents the findings of an experimental campaign that was conducted to investigatethe seismic behaviour of log houses. A two-storey log house designed by the Portuguese companyRusticasa® was subjected to a series of shaking table tests at LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal. The paper containsthe description of the geometry and construction of the house and all the aspects related to the testingprocedure, namely the pre-design, the setup, instrumentation and the testing process itself. The shakingtable tests were carried out with a scaled spectrum of the Montenegro (1979) earthquake, at increasinglevels of PGA, starting from 0.07g, moving on to 0.28g and finally 0.5g. The log house did not suffer anymajor damage and remained in working condition throughout the entire process. The preliminary analysisof the overall behaviour of the log house is also discussed.
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