Got to see a couple of projects in person last month on a whirlwind visit to the US. This first photo is looking up into the cupola of a custom timber structure I designed. The wood trusses are spanning 75’ from left to right and the spacing between them is roughly 14’ on center. The building is ~106’ long overall, it will be used as a private aircraft hangar. The cupola (center in the image) is roughly 8’ square. The main door is 65’ wide and lifts in one piece on hydraulics to allow the plane to enter / exit. I did the schematic and preliminary timber frame design. Final engineering and construction documents were done by the manufacturer.
It’s not quite finished yet - lots of little details that will be finalized over the coming months… but it was great to be able to see the structure in progress when I visited.
Lovely! We Finns think we are a timber building culture, but actually we have quite few of this kind of structures. There is currently a vogue of making things like schools out of logs and dwellings of CLT, but all larger spans are usually made with glulam if of wood.
Thank you @Anssi - I occasionally work with traditional glue lam, but mainly work with solid timber. I have done some cool projects with grain matching and laminating curves and unique timber combining solid and glue lam technology, those were also pretty fun - sawing logs, drying the pieces, then vacuum veneering them back together in either a curved form or over a structural glue lam.
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