From catastrophe came opportunity: Come help us celebrate as we officially open our Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) building!
After the devastating collapse of half of our fine woodworking division’s WWII era shop in February 2015, we regrouped and put our heads together on how to move forward. Following our ethos of the Triple Bottom Line (people, planet, and profit), it became our goal to design and re-build with new-to-New-York environmentally savvy and energy efficient materials. The result: the first complete Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) building in New York State.
A combination of mass timber, heavy timber, and CLTs, the 21,000 sq ft building is the new home for our fine woodworking group, NEWwoodworks, and offers a bit of storage/shipping for our sister company, Pioneer Millworks. Other details include wood fiber insulation, reclaimed wood siding, peg laminated timber overhangs, a broadleaf maple tree post, numerous wood tools and machinery, stacks of ready to ship custom wood products, and more.
Join us to see these elements together and in use as a custom woodworking shop and shipping/loading area.
Where: New Energy Works Timberframers main campus at 1180 Commercial Dr, Farmington, NY 14425
When: Thursday, October 12, 2017
Time: 10am to 11am
Info: (585) 924-3860 for more information or help with directions
What are CLTs? A quick description might be ‘giant plywood’. More specifically, CLTs are large wooden panels, typically consisting of 3, 5, or 7 layers of dimensional lumber, oriented at right angles, glued together. The panels for our project averaged 8 feet tall and 38 feet long at 3 ¼ and 3 ¾ inch thickness. Using a crane and lulls, the panels were lifted into place and fitted by hand to the supporting timber frame. Each CLT panel has a shiplap edge that nests the panels together and is secured with metal fasteners.
We see CLTs as a wave of the future and we’ve invested in our Western New York campus to better position the region and our industry to ride the wave. The opportunities with CLTs are abundant for businesses and housing and offer dramatic environmental benefits. Wood is a naturally occurring and renewable resource which stores carbon. It has proved time and again to perform as well, and at times better than, carbon-heavy steel and concrete.
What is wood fiber insulation?
For more, check out our previous blog post on raising this CLT project. We hope to see you at the opening!
