The strength dimensional stability and rigidity of clt allow it to be used in mid and high rise buildings.
What is cross laminated timber construction.
After being widely adopted in europe.
Once manufactured the clt panels are then transported and erected on site.
Cross laminated timber commonly known as clt or crosslam is a precision engineered building material that despite a raft of practical and ecological benefits is yet to be widely adopted by the uk self build market.
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.
Cross laminated timber clt is typically manufactured in panels.
Popularized in europe and gradually gaining attention in the rest of the world cross laminated timber clt stands out for its strength appearance versatility and sustainability.
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.
Katerra offers three five seven and nine ply layups with various thicknesses reaching up to 12 4 inches.
Cross laminated timber clt was initially developed in europe as an alternative to stone masonry and concrete construction.
The size of the panels can vary.
However the width is determined by the scope of the manufacturing machinery and the length is determined by the method of transportation to site.
Katerra offers 11 different cross laminated timber clt layup configurations to give our customers design flexibility to meet their specific needs.
Cross laminated timber or clt is an engineered timber product that is threatening to upset the dominance of the big two structural materials.
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.
It is essentially mass timber plates made from smaller framing lumber laminated crosswise on their wide faces.