Timber framing

apartment buildings. Commercial construction types consist predominately of, load bearing masonry, concrete frame with or without shear wall and steel frame with or without concrete shear core. These construction types also have a combination of, timber, concrete columns or steel beams floors and unreinforced masonry (and other material) exterior walls. Industrial construction types consist of unreinforced and reinforced masonry walls with supporting steel roof, steel frame with steel clad…

Timber has been used as a commodity to build homes since times immemorial. Even now, the craze for timbered homes has not diminished at all. Many people across the world love timber. Thus, they have a desire to build a timber house for themselves. Style, comfort and protection are what can be guaranteed to dwellers of timber houses. Style because of the various architectural designs which can be achieved from timber, comfort because they provide thermal insulation such that dwellers can feel…

An often referenced example of a completed mass wood building, using “cross-laminated timber” (CLT) panel systems, is the Stadthuas/Murray Grove Project located in London, England. (for more, see page 10) What it is interesting to note though is that the Stadthaus Project achieves the required level of safety and fire protection for the local…

In the town of Kaikoura, New Zealand, a heritage building is located by the Kaikoura Peninsula, known as the Fyffe House. This area is well known for bringing in European settlers around the 1840s due to whaling, and it is the interest in whales that makes it still relevant for people today through the recreation of whale watching. It appears that the Fyffe House is the only physical evidence that reflects the time of European settlement in this region. Therefore, it should be explored how the…

(SlabExt:) and roof insulation R4.0 and ceiling insulation R4.0 are chosen for the new roof structure (totally 32.5 ML/m2a energy will be saved). In terms of the original floor structure, the concrete slab covered with floating timber has relatively good energy performance. However, timber, a type of material with low thermal performance, weakens the energy efficiency of the whole floor structure. Changing the floor covering to high density material, tiles, will not only provide occupants with…

On October 26, 2016, I contacted Mr. Tracy McCoy the Vice President and lead estimator for the United Framing Company in Blacksburg, Virginia (VA). To complete the interview process, we talked on the telephone for approximately one hour. Coming out of college, Mr. McCoy had an undergraduate degree in Recreation and Leisure from Radford University. He wanted to into the athletic field. It was either between a director of recreation or a director of athletics. But at the end of the day he ended up…

Australia. These are eighty-two unique bathing boxes, which are all uniform in proportion, scale, building materials sequence, and sentry order. They are simple structures that still maintain the elegant Victorian architectural features, with timber, framing, corrugated iron sheets, and weatherboards. They were built in the nineteenth century, to allow the swimmers and the visitors who visited the beach to have a private changing and storage facilities. The Australian felt the need to construct…

DIY - Home Health Checklist Building Component Condition Roof Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor Exterior: Roof Sag - Look for signs of sagging or distortion Roof Gutters - Any obvious holes or evidence of water leaks from surrounding gutters Antenna - Any external TV antenna Interior: Sarking - Is a silver foil visible (might be blue or brown) across the top of the roof? The foil (sharking) is an insulation component and it also acts as a barrier during heavy…

CTE I am in Building Technology which involves framing, little bit of Plumbing and a little bit electrical. I am interested in Heating and ventilating for plumbing, but on the other hand I am also interested in construction work like rough building. I don 't know much about Plumbing at all, but I know a little bit more on the construction piece and how to build a roof, walls and Laying It All Out and cutting it. I even know a little bit on Timber framing. I am a little interested in plumbing…

1)Production & Values: This photography was taken in New York, 1999. Maier took this image using a film camera in black and white. Her Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera is different from a normal SLR camera, as it has different viewfinder system, and enables Maier to view from above at her waist level, which provides the street photograph to be nature. Documentary photography is difficult to set up the camera with the shortage time, especially, the film camera that it takes longer than a…