Mini Storage

Accessibility: Reclaimed timbers are extremely difficult to source in the desired dimensions and species, and the sources are often inconsistent and unreliable.
Dimensional stability: Reclaimed timbers usually come from old barns or grain elevators and are often a century old. Those original timbers had large variances in their cross sections and have since shrunk, twisted or cracked over decades.
Cost: Reclaimed timbers are not only very expensive to source, but it is also very time consuming to joint them properly. It is much easier and better to build with dimensionally square timbers.

By woodpecker@admin March 21, 2022

MINI STORAGE

This was probably a one of its kind project. An approximately 45,000 sft mini storage facility.

These kind of projects are usually constructed out of steel, which then gets clad with drywall for fire rating. The additional cost associated with fire rating is often underestimated. WPTF was able to build this structure significantly cheaper than a steel/drywall clad structure would have been. The timbers were ALL 10×10 on a 10’ grit. The 10×10” timber cross section gave the timbers about 1” for charcoaling and therefore protecting the remaining 8×8” timber in case of a fire. This avoids the need for cladding. Each floor received a 4×6 T&G ceiling on top of the timbers.

Hopefully, with the growing knowledge of solid, heavy timber behavior in a fire, more and more commercial and industrial buildings will be constructed that way.

Beautiful, functional, sustainable and budget conscious!

LEAR Construction has recently has the opportunity to work alongside Woodpecker European Timber Framing on some project and we can unequivocally state that they have been an excellent trade partner to work with. The excellent communication and framing knowledge is bested only by their final product. Our collective clients are always very pleased with the final workmanship and results they have invested in with Woodpecker. I would have no hesitation in recommending them for future tenders or to our construction peers within industry.

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Calgary AB