Clt Timber Floors
This strength affords designers a host of new uses for wood including wide prefabricated floor slabs single level walls and taller floor plate heights.
Clt timber floors. 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. As with other mass timber products clt can be left exposed in building interiors up to 8 stories in the 2021 ibc offering additional aesthetic attributes. Clt is made from layers of solid timber planks face glued together in alternating directions to make large stable solid wood construction panels. Span capacity increases with the number of layers.
Cross laminating layers of wood veneer improves the structural properties of wood by distributing the along the grain strength of wood in both directions and this means that clt panels can be used to form complete floors walls and roofs. Katerra offers three five seven and nine ply layups with various thicknesses reaching up to 12 4 inches. Adding value to a natural renewable resource through technology building with xlam clt panels is fast safe economical and good for the planet. Cross laminated timber is the answer to building sustainably.
Katerra offers 11 different cross laminated timber clt layup configurations to give our customers design flexibility to meet their specific needs. While clt is a timber product it should not be thought of as a timber frame product it is a timber. The gluing of both longitudinal and transverse layers which reduces the movement of the wood means that clt more than meets the standards required by modern building materials. Cross laminated timber clt is a large scale prefabricated solid engineered wood panel.
Structural clt floor and roof construction presenter. Cross laminated timber clt cross laminated timber crosslam clt is a multi layer mass timber product spanning two directions with precision accuracy resulting in a secure airtight building solution for any floor wall roof or core.