When it comes to construct any type of building, the common idea that we all have in using the material is steel, concrete, cements, and other such raw materials. This is an age old concept that is still on-going in this 21st century too. But have any of us taken an idea to think for constructing the building with the use of wooden material? Well, this is a matter of fact that when it comes to building materials, word has still not drawn much attention as well as the strongest in the bunch.
Also, when not having a thought for wooden constructed buildings, the entire honor is being transferred to concrete and steel. It is because the support and foundation of the buildings is totally depending on steel embedded material that is having a base in concrete. Another point of view that is taken into consideration is that concrete increases tensile strength and this can be then given shape and form with the help of Rebar. Wherein, all this is not possible in wood. If using wood or taking that into consideration, the issue that arises is it will have decay and is vulnerable to moisture damage and fire.
Now let us proceed further, and understand what Mass Timber Services or Mass Timber Building is all about. The process of Mass timber construction is basically in contrast to light-frame wood construction. The process of getting this built is by using a category of engineered wood product that is typically made of solid wood panels, and for the same the columns or beams often manufactured off-site for load-bearing wall, floor, and roof construction.
The engineering work of mass timber is light is weight, but one thing that we do not have to forget is the high strength rating that is only possible with concrete and steel. Timber building models and its products are thick, compressed layers of wood, creating strong, structural load-bearing elements that can be constructed into panelized components. These buildings are formed with the process of lamination, fasteners, and adhesives. Mass timber can complement light-frame and hybrid options and is an environmentally friendly substitute for carbon intensive materials and building systems.
Now let us proceed further, and have a look at some of the basics and a must have type of systems that are an important part of the mass timber building process. Some of them are listed below.
Cross Laminated Timber:
Cross Laminated Timber of CLT is a wooden panel that has gained an enormous popularity in the USA. This is the system that is taken into consideration at the time of constructing mid and high-rise construction. The core reason for it is the strength of its material, dimensional stability, and above all its rigidity. This is why this set of timber is very much taken into consideration for Timber building construction.
Nail-Laminated Timber:
Nail Laminated Timber — NLT is one of the oldest methods of construction that undergoes various design renaissance. The process of work can be found in old buildings as well as in the new projects. The base of the service is where the structural performance and design elegance come together and create inspiring spaces.
Dowel- Laminated Timber:
DLT — Dowel Laminated Timber is used to make the work easier and faster and that is with computer-controlled (CNC) machinery — such as lathes, routers, and mills — and it’s all-wood composition. This is a service very much similar to NLT, but the only difference is that here woods are being used as dowels to join boards instead of nails and screws.
Glue-Laminated Timber:
Glue-Laminated Timber or often called Glulam. It is a part of structural engineered wood that is being conducted for the use of beams and columns in commercial and residential applications in the projects. It also allows for a long span of the exposed framing along with attention-grabbing curvatures.
Mass Timber and engineered wood products can be used in numbers of applications and this is indeed the foundation for taller and larger wood building systems. Having said this, let us proceed further and check on some of the types of mass timber framing systems.
Types of Mass Timber Framing Systems
When the topic evolves around mass timber, there is a vast option and ever-evolving number of systems available. With the use of various combinations and sizes, the product of mass timber serves to its all parts that are considered for directional strength of each wood product. The building parts are beams, columns, floors, roofs, and walls. If talking opposite to it with conventional concrete and steel systems, it tends to follow some of the basic standards and codes, whereas in mass timber systems there is a higher range of flexibility, and this is albeit unless and without some challenges.
Let us proceed further and have a understanding on types of mass timber framing systems and this includes:
Post-and-beam
Post-and-beam systems of mass timber are the popular choice that resemble one of the common approaches that is being used in heavy timber buildings of the previous construction. It is a skeletal framework of decking, beams and posts supported on a foundation. There is a specification made which refers to the post that are termed to be the members of the construction process. The referring of upwoods members indicates posts and horizontal wood refers to beams. The post and beams are connected respectively with the help of mechanical steel fasteners. These systems of construction do not require load-bearing walls. It is Glulam that served as the posts and beams.
Mass timber floor and wall systems
In contrast to post-and-beam, designers can take advantage of the mass timber panel’s two-way spanning capability. This process includes the construction to form a structure in the form of honeycomb that is well-suited to handle both vertical and lateral loads. In some instances, mass timber may form the core of a building, in place of concrete.
Hybrid mass timber systems
Hybrid mass timber systems is a broad category that refers to any combination of wood, steel, concrete and other possible materials and building systems. Capitalizing on the performance and strengths of each building material, hybrid systems offer lots of flexibility. This can include a nearly all-wood solution that combines light-frame wood construction with mass timber panels, where only the foundation is concrete, and the connecters are metal.
Over to You:
On reading this blog it is clear what exactly mass timber service is all about and how it has changed the entire way of thinking and constructing buildings with the help of Timber. This development and construction is very much seen in northern parts of America. But slowly and gradually people in many countries where the climatic weather is cold and high, these Mass Timber Building constructions are taken into consideration.
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