Glulam beams manufactured by apa members are certified with the apa trademark.
Glulam roof structures.
Glulam allows a high degree of prefabrication and long structural spans where necessary but is equally effective for shorter spans.
Our glulam structures are manufactured to order with an efficient use of material in mind and offer top load bearing capacities.
The apa mark of quality.
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Theoretically glulam panels can span any imaginable length and to date roof areas exceeding 100 000 square meters have been constructed using glulam framing.
Its thermal properties help prevent cold bridging.
The mark signifies that the manufacturer is committed to a rigorous program of quality verification and testing and that products are manufactured in conformance with ansi standard a190 1 standard for wood products structural glued laminated timber.
A glulam is made with multiple layers of solid wood lumber bonded together with high strength adhesive to form a single structural unit.
Our titan timber beams resist checking and twisting and are job site ready with one piece construction and more cost efficient than lvl and psl.
According to structurecraft and the structural timber association the length of glulam panels are only limited by fabrication and shipping constraints.
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Diverse and versatile parallel chords ridged roof trusses fishbelly bowstring truss timber frames and single pitch trusses.
Established in 1977 in shelton washington and later relocating to chehalis washington we have been committed to producing a high quality and diverse product line.
Shelton structures is a leading manufacturer of laminated roof decking lock deck and custom glulam beams in addition to our primary products we produce customer specific engineered wood products.
Structural wood systems is an alabama united states based full service glulam manufacturer.
Glulam frame of a roof structure glued laminated timber also abbreviated glulam is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensional lumber bonded together with durable moisture resistant structural adhesives.
Builders often refer collectively to all types of laminated beams or other laminated structural wood materials as glulams.
Glulam support systems are prime examples of the unique character of timber engineering.
Glue laminated glulam beams timber technologies glue laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber and pound for pound stronger than steel.
Sws is a leading custom glued laminated timber manufacturer and provides one single source supplier for projects over the entire united states.
