Bridges Glulam

Pedestrian Bridges

Glulam Beam

Our Glulam Beam Pedestrian Bridges are designed with wooden rails and are built to maintain their integrity under all conditions. The bridge is fully engineered to span large distances. The bridge’s wood construction adds a feeling of warmth to your landscape. http://www.custompark.com

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PSL Ridge Beam

Parallel strand lumber has voids resulting from the random lay-up of strands. The voids make it possible to treat PSL with preservatives. http://www.woodaware.info

Timber Trusses

Timber Trusses — Custom Designed and Engineer Approved

Solid structural timber trusses of any length or design; we can manufacture large timber trusses for your project and can provide engineer-stamped timber truss drawings in all 50 states. Whether you need one timber truss or one hundred, we make it easy for you to move from design to job site installation. Learn more about our custom structural timber trusses.

Design Assistance: For design assistance with your timber trusses use the timber truss project form and contact one of our Project Consultants at 1 (800) 716-0636. They will make it easy for you to decide upon the best size and shape for your structural and aesthetic needs as well as costs and time

http://www.americanpoleandtimber.com

Glulam

Glulam - eco-friendly, strong and with wide possibilities 

Glulam is a completely eco-friendly material, and laminated timber beams can be used for everything from large industrial buildings to single family homes. Glulam offers wide freedom of architectural design. http://www.moelven.com

Glulam Student Center Opens at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT

Last week we visited Quinnipiac University to tour the finished York Hill Campus Student Center. Below are several of the photos we took of the interior. As you can see, the warmth and beauty of our product creates a visually stunning structure throughout the entire interior. This was one of the most complex projects we have ever supplied material for and we enjoyed seeing the finished product.

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Laminated timber

Engineered wood construction: glued laminated timber

In Europe, structural glue laminated timber is widely used in constructions where span width is an issue and/or the unique beauty of the wood is to be exploited architecturally. Glulam beams and columns have a strong aesthetic appeal, as the structure of a building can be expressed in the exposed beauty of the wood.
Glue laminated timber – engineered wood beams and columns - are used in homes, schools, sports halls, railway stations, industrial and commercial buildings, such as shopping centres and expo buildings, and public buildings, such as museums and concert halls. They are also used in landscaping and infrastructure applications such as glulam bridges. Glulam beams and columns come as standard products, with a variety of cross-sections and lengths. Custom designed beams and columns are prefabricated according to customer needs and can include curved shapes and mechanical interfaces to concrete or steel structures etc.
Glulam is a mature technology in Europe, where large span buildings are still in use after almost 100 years.

Glulam Truss

Glued Laminated Timber (glulam) = (my def.) wood structural member made up of laminating (gluing) relatively small pieces of wood together (in layers) to make one much larger (and stronger) than the constituent pieces.

Bowstring Trusses with Glulam Top and Bottom Chords, Victoria British Columbia Int'l Airport, Canada ...

The (glulam) members can be used for:

    substitution for big solid timbers that are unavailable (or too costly)

    for timber sizes unachievable with solid sawn timbers

    for timbers requiring greater strength and/or stiffness than solid timbers

For use in simple framing ... glulam can be used for ...

    joists, beams, girders, rafters

    posts or columns

The thing about glulam is that while providing support - it can also be very attractive, and thus we could categorize the use of glulam also in terms of ...

    un-exposed

    exposed

Glulam can also be made into curved shapes, and thus ...

    cambered beams

    curved beams (circular shape, S-shaped, whatever)

... and tapered, thus

    tapered beams (single or double taper)

    pitched and tapered curved beams

    arches with tapers