Timber Frame Laminated Wood

Katerra offers three five seven and nine ply layups with various thicknesses reaching up to 12 4 inches.

Timber frame laminated wood.

In north america the material providing the laminations is termed laminating stock or lamstock. The hand hewn timber comes to us as is and we scribe it to fit into a timber frame. 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.

The resawn timber is cut with a band saw to our requirements. 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. An odd number of layers is most common but there are configurations with even numbers as well. Pt pressure treated with chemicals to resist decay.

Glulam glued laminated timber. Glulam frame of a roof structure glued laminated timber also abbreviated glulam is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensional lumber bonded together with durable moisture resistant structural adhesives. Regular timber is an anisotropic material meaning that the physical p. 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.

We have been designing and building projects with mass timber for over a decade including cross laminated timber projects across the country. Commercial timber framing with large clear spans complicated designs challenging joinery and intense engineering requirements could require laminated timbers for strength. Cross laminated timber is a wood panel product made from gluing together layers of solid sawn lumber i e lumber cut from a single log. Cross laminated timber clt is the engineered wood of the future and is making the construction of entire buildings from timber a reality.

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. When we place an order for vintage wood we specify either hand hewn timber or resawn timber. Katerra offers 11 different cross laminated timber clt layup configurations to give our customers design flexibility to meet their specific needs. 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.

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.