CLT is an engineered timber product made from bonding layers of sawn timbers together. This provides a sustainable and tough panel which is ideal for use in offsite construction and is becoming more popular as a building material for the whole construction industry. The treated engineered wood can be used in walls, floors and roofs to construct the full building envelope.
Design using cross-laminated timber panels falls within the timber code EC 5 but is often considered by many to fall between timber and masonry design; panels act as solid planes and there is no need for an infill. Design by standard will often give a much more conventional answer than design by testing.
The testing within the guide includes thermal performance, durability, acoustic and airtightness, and water tightness of connections, and can be executed to establish load span characteristics of floors and roofs and to ascertain the maximum span and load characteristics of walling panels.
Author of the guide, Joanne Booth, business manager – construction at Lucideon, said: “This is the third guide in a series we’re creating for offsite and modular building product manufacturers.
“The guide is designed to help manufacturers launch new products into the market by detailing test requirements to understand the structural integrity and physical performance of both panels and the full composite system.”
You can download the free guide here.
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Solild Wood Solutions
To hear from the industry leaders in CLT, why not attend Solid Wood Solutions?
Taking place on 05 July at the outstanding Oculus, University of Warwick, Solid Wood Solutions will host leading companies specialising in engineered timber to shine a spotlight on pioneering projects through informative case studies presented by those who conceived and developed the buildings that are gaining global attention. This event presents a great opportunity to gain insight and network with those who are shaping the future of the engineered timber industry.
Speakers include:
Giancarlo Torpiano - Structural Engineer at Arup
Jonathan Roynon - Associate Director at Buro Happold
Kelly Harrison - Associate at Heyne Tillett Steel
John Spittle - Sales Director for England & Wales at Wiehag
Nic Clark - Managing Director at KLH UK
Gavin White - Director at Ramboll
Kevin Flanagan - Partner at PLP Architecture
David Lomax - Senior Associate at Waugh Thistleton
Neil Eaton - Director at Berman Guedes Stretton Architects
Daniel Kreissig - Sales & Estimation UK at ZÜBLIN Timber
Max Garcia - Design & Engineering Manager Carbon Dynamic
Robin Lancashire - Senior Timber Frame Consultant TRADA
Darren Richards - Managing Director at Cogent Consulting
Niall Crosson - Group Technical Manager at Ecological Building Systems UK
Robert Hairstans - Head of the Centre for Offsite Construction & Innovative Structures at Edinburgh Napier University
For further information or to book tickets, go to: www.solidwoodsolutions.co.uk/
