Innovative solid wood panels offer new large scale design options clt basics.
Cross laminated wood panels.
2 these products are engineered to precise design specifications which are tested to meet national or international standards and provide uniformity and.
The panel is then sized and shaped with a computer numerically control cnc machine into a fully construction ready component.
Cross laminated timber clt a sub category of engineered wood is a wood panel product made from gluing together layers of solid sawn lumber i e lumber cut from a single log each layer of boards is usually oriented perpendicular to adjacent layers and glued on the wide faces of each board usually in a symmetric way so that the outer layers have the same orientation.
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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.
Katerra partners with architects and engineers to provide specifications and bring mass timber designs to life.
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Cross laminated timber clt is a wood panel system that is rapidly gaining popularity in the u s.
The strength dimensional stability and rigidity of clt allow it to be used in mid and high rise buildings.
Cross laminated timber buildings sequester carbon and are built from renewable wood.
After being widely adopted in europe.
Serving as a significantly lighter replacement for concrete crosslam clt is carbon negative and uses wood exclusively from.
The record breaking feat was realized thanks to a type of engineered wood called cross laminated timber or clt.
The panels vary in size but can range upwards of 64 by 8 feet 19 5 by 2 4 m and in the case of cross laminated timber clt can be of any thickness from a few inches to 16 inches or more.
Cross laminated timber clt is the engineered wood of the future and is making the construction of entire buildings from timber a reality.
Cross laminated timber clt panels are formed by stacking and gluing together successive perpendicular layers of wood.
First developed in switzerland in the 1970s clt is an extension of the technology that began with plywood and may be best described as a jumbo plywood.
With our expanded factory in montana and our additional factory in alabama we are poised to serve you anywhere in north america.
The layered stacks are then pressed in large hydraulic or vacuum presses to form an interlocked panel.
Today cross laminated timber has gone mainstream.