Our Fabrication capabilities mean that your Glulam beams can arrive to site precisely cut, drilled, slotted, or bevelled for immediate installation. Investing in Fabrication will enhance efficiency and precision, streamlining on-site assembly and maintaining the highest standards of quality. This approach also minimizes labour costs and accelerates project timelines, making it an ideal solution for modern, environmentally friendly and speedy construction projects.
Timber connections are essential in timber construction, crucial for ensuring structural integrity, aesthetic appeal, and sustainability. These connections are key to transferring loads and stresses, maintaining stability under various conditions, and influencing the final appearance of the structure.
They also enhance the building’s adaptability for future modifications while optimising material use for environmental and cost efficiency. As such, timber connections are not just functional elements but integral to the overall success and sustainability of timber architecture. Examples of some Connections designs are described below.
A beam-to-beam connection plate or fixing is used to join two glulam beams end-to-end or at an angle. By using a beam-to-beam connection plate or fixing, glulam beams can be effectively and securely joined, facilitating the creation of larger structural frameworks necessary for complex architectural designs. This method of connection is essential for achieving desired structural configurations while ensuring safety and stability. Click the tab below to find out more!
A base connection plate is a crucial component used to securely attach a glulam beam to a foundation or supporting structure. By integrating a base connection plate, a glulam beam is properly anchored, aligned, and stabilised, making it a reliable component of the larger structural framework. This connection is essential for ensuring that the beam performs as expected, bearing loads safely and effectively over its lifespan. Click the tab below to find out more!
DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) is a design approach that optimizes the manufacturing and assembly processes to enhance the speed, safety, and quality of a build. This method involves considering the manufacturing and assembly aspects early in the design phase, ensuring that components are designed for easy and efficient production and assembly. The goal of DFMA is to streamline production, reduce costs, minimize waste, and improve overall project efficiency and quality.
Investing in pre-fabrication aligns perfectly with DFMA principles by shifting much of the construction process off-site into a controlled factory environment. Overall, pre-fabrication supports the DFMA approach by providing a streamlined, efficient, and high-quality method of constructing buildings, ultimately enhancing project outcomes. Masswood’s team of specialists is eager to collaborate closely with you from the early design stages to address desired sectional sizes, shapes, lengths, connection and assembly details. We strongly advise involving us as soon as possible to ensure clarity on feasibility and cost, and to guarantee the best outcomes for your project.
Fabricating glulam beams offers a suite of benefits that streamline construction projects while ensuring superior outcomes. These advantages make glulam beam fabrication a reliable, smart and effective choice for your next project.
Pre-fabrication in a factory ensures that beams are produced under controlled conditions resulting in beams with precise dimensions and high structural integrity.
Pre-fabricated beams are ready for immediate installation, significantly reducing the time required for on-site construction leading to faster project completion.
With the combination of less on-site labour and the reduction of removal and management of on-site waste savings are made by investing in pre-fabrication.
By completing most of the fabrication work off-site, we significantly reduce construction activities that pose risks to on-site workers, thereby eliminating additional hazards.
Gulam is already contributing to increasing environmentally friendly building practices and adding Pre-fabrication it means less dust, noise, and other pollutants at the worksite.
Investing in Pre-fabricated Glulam beams means that you have one less thing to worry about on your project. Your Glulam will show up ready to go giving you time to focus on other details.
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Since the beams are manufactured and assembled off-site, they arrive ready for immediate installation, significantly reducing on-site labor and construction time, leading to faster project completion.
Yes, glulam beams can be manufactured in various shapes, sizes, and specifications to meet specific design and structural requirements, offering great flexibility for different projects.
Pre-fabrication reduces labour costs, minimizes material waste, and speeds up construction, which collectively results in overall cost savings for the project.
Glulam beams are produced in controlled factory environments with stringent quality control processes, ensuring high structural integrity, durability, and resistance to environmental factors.
At Masswood, we’re passionate about helping you realise your glulam and fabrication needs for contemporary, state-of-the-art and sustainable design solutions. Contact us to discover the true potential of timber.
