Katerra offers 11 different cross laminated timber clt layup configurations to give our customers design flexibility to meet their specific needs.
What is cross laminated timber construction.
After being widely adopted in europe.
Cross laminated timber clt is a wood panel system that is rapidly gaining popularity in the u s.
It is essentially mass timber plates made from smaller framing lumber laminated crosswise on their wide faces.
Cross laminated timber clt is a large scale prefabricated solid engineered wood panel.
Katerra offers three five seven and nine ply layups with various thicknesses reaching up to 12 4 inches.
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 or clt is an engineered timber product that is threatening to upset the dominance of the big two structural materials.
Clt offers design flexibility and low environmental impacts.
Cross laminated timber clt is typically manufactured in panels.
Once manufactured the clt panels are then transported and erected on site.
However the width is determined by the scope of the manufacturing machinery and the length is determined by the method of transportation to site.
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 was initially developed in europe as an alternative to stone masonry and concrete construction.
The size of the panels can vary.
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.