In designing connections for glulam members, it is important to design and detail ... As most connections occur at the ends of beams where the wood end grain is exposed, it is critical that these ...

Glued Laminated Wood (Glulam) is a structural material manufactured ... Suitable for use on beams, pillars, ceilings, stairs, panels, and cladding, one of the great advantages of this type of ...

EVOLUTION What’s fascinating is to see the evolution of engineered wood beams over the past 40 years. Laminated beams, mircrolams and so forth are very common now, but I clearly remember when th ...

Mass timber is turning into a mass movement. Once considered mostly an experimental construction technology, the use of glued, laminated wood beams (called glulam) is taking hold in the design and ...

But it’s not just any old lumber. The top 19 floors of the 25-story building are made with cross-laminated timber or CLT, an engineered wood created by layering and gluing lumber in a crossing ...

Scarf joints, according to a Q&A regarding the evaluation that’s posted to the Medford School District website, “are long-tapered wood splices used in older glulam beam laminations.

Topping out construction on an office building isn’t usually much of a headliner. But the structural completion of a Frisco building is different. It’s the first timber commercial building ...

The roof is predominantly Southern pine glulam wood beams and tongue-and-groove wood decking, explains Josh Ruminer, senior associate and architect with WD&D. In addition to being a strong ...

It’s made by layering and gluing lumber in a crossing pattern to ... The building is called the Ascent and it’s made of wood. Cross-laminated timber to be exact, also called CLT.