Laminated Timber Roof Beams

Clt offers design flexibility and low environmental impacts.

Laminated timber roof beams.

Table specifications are provided with each table indicating conditions and assumptions used to calculate the loads. Looking for roof trusses floor joists glulam beams or laminated timber products. Aitc beam capacity tables. The resulting product is strong stable and rigid with significant advantages over structural steel and concrete.

Some of those options include laminated veneer and strand lumbers i joist and rim boards glulam beams and laminated columns as well as panel products. Laminated beam are made by gluing timber together under pressure and heat. Our titan timber beams resist checking and twisting and are job site ready with one piece construction and more cost efficient than lvl and psl. Versa lam laminated veneer lumber lvl beams and headers eliminate twisting shrinking and splitting and deliver flatter quieter floors and structures.

The roof includes 2 400 cubic metres of douglas fir lamstock lumber in glulam beams. Lightweight yet very strong with superior acoustic fire seismic and thermal performance clt is also fast and easy to install generating almost no waste onsite. These tables are provided as a guideline. Cross laminated timber clt is a large scale prefabricated solid engineered wood panel.

Aitc capacity tables provide the uniformly distributed load that a glued laminated timber beam can support based on beam size span and material properties. If there is are any questions about anything else then you should contact your supplier or an engineer. A total of 34 yellow cedar glulam posts support the overhangs where the roof extends beyond the walls. The manufacture distribution and treatment of laminated beams all consume less energy than any other building materials.

Most interior beams need to include the roof load. Glue laminated glulam beams. To learn more about trusses you can visit midwest manufacturing where you will also be able to request a quote from our truss designers. Glulam beams manufactured by apa members are certified with the apa trademark.

Anaheim ice located in anaheim california is also an example of using glued laminated timber. Our versa lam lvl is manufactured in either alexandria lena louisiana in eastern united states or in white city oregon for the western united states. Call dunscar timber on 44 0 1204 301671 now. This calculator matches up with 90 of the applications in the 2012 international residential code book.

It has been my experience to never use a beam smaller than a two ply 2 x 8. The mark signifies that the manufacturer is committed to a rigorous program of quality verification and testing and that products are manufactured in conformance with ansi standard a190 1 standard for wood products structural glued laminated timber.