"Australian Architects can design structures with the form and feel of timber, now with the spanning capabilities needed in the commercial and civic space"
"100% renewable, sustainable plantation-grown timber – achieving large spans with natural beauty"
"Timber provides impressive spans with a lighter footprint than steel or concrete – and has the added benefit of sequestering carbon in the structure"
"Curved timber structures over broad spans are now a reality – with Timberbuilt Solution’s curved plywood box beams"
"Timberbuilt Solutions’ BIM (Building Information Modelling) enables us to take your 3D model so we can model the structural timber components – saving time and money while achieving your architectural vision"
"From small commercial structures (400 m2) to large (25,000 m2), Timberbuilt Solutions can provide design, engineering and prefabrication solutions for a precise installation with low on-site costs"
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Marsden Point LVL Facility
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Location:Marsden Point, New Zealand
Engineer:Timberbuilt Solutions
Size:26, 000 square metres
A purpose built manufacturing plant and warehouse for LVL. The Marsden Point facility is the largest timber building in the southern hemisphere and boasts impressive spans and design challenges.
All structural members were designed, detailed and manufactured to exacting tolerances by Timberbuilt. The entire building’s portal frames, purlins, girts and columns are manufactured from LVL and plywood, all from 100% renewable plantation radiata pine.
Designing this type of building using LVL is little different from what designing a steel building would be for engineers experienced in steel design
The plant’s main building is 209 metres long and 96 metres wide and has open spans of 32 metres. I-beam purlins connected simply to rafters, achieving spans of 11 metres.
This configuration was a very light yet strong structural solution in a region with high winds. On-site assembly was simple and repetitious, reducing errors and saving labour costs.
For more detail, see attached articles.
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Source: Civil Engineers Australia, Vol 73 No, January 2001
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Source: Futurebuild - Specifiers News, Issue 14, June 2000, p.4
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Source: Futurebuild - Specifiers News, Issue 17