Timber Frame Laminated Wood

Katerra offers 11 different cross laminated timber clt layup configurations to give our customers design flexibility to meet their specific needs.

Timber frame laminated wood.

It is a highly visible form of mass timber in contemporary projects with long spans framing signature designs left exposed to take advantage of wood s natural aesthetic. Reclaimed antique timber frames are very beautiful very special and also very expensive. Commercial timber framing with large clear spans complicated designs challenging joinery and intense engineering requirements could require laminated timbers for strength. Katerra offers three five seven and nine ply layups with various thicknesses reaching up to 12 4 inches.

In north america the material providing the laminations is termed laminating stock or lamstock. An odd number of layers is most common but there are configurations with even numbers as well. The resawn timber is cut with a band saw to our requirements. We have been designing and building projects with mass timber for over a decade including cross laminated timber projects across the country.

The hand hewn timber comes to us as is and we scribe it to fit into a timber frame. Glue laminated timber glulam is a structural engineered wood product commonly used for beams and columns in residential and commercial applications. Regular timber is an anisotropic material meaning that the physical p. Grn green freshly cut wet ht heat treated reclaimed wood is sometimes heat treated to kill bugs kd kiln dried when timber is dried in a conventional kiln only the outer inch or so is dried pad partly air dried.

Each layer of boards is usually oriented perpendicular to adjacent layers and glued on the wide faces of each board usually in a symmetric way so that the outer layers have the same orientation. Glulam glued laminated timber. Timber technologies products include treated and untreated columns for sidewalls and end walls in post frame buildings glue laminated headers and beams and architectural grade beams for high end commercial structures. First developed in switzerland in the 1970s clt is an extension of the technology that began with plywood and may be best described as a jumbo plywood.

Laminated timbers or glulams as they are sometimes called are thin timber cuts that are glued together. Timber technologies l l c started operations in 2003 and has been manufacturing glue laminated glulam wood columns and beams for post frame builders since that time. Mass timber products are made with kiln dried material laminating smaller pieces of wood together to produce substantial stress rated building components ideal for any sized project. Cross laminated timber clt is the engineered wood of the future and is making the construction of entire buildings from timber a reality.

Pt pressure treated with chemicals to resist decay.