As a timber frame provider, we actively encourage progressive handovers, so if anything, the guidelines have benefited our existing on-site processes.” He added: “Our team is continually developing innovative practices to deliver the required compartmentation with minimal cost and time implications. Measures firms have to put in place include employing fire marshalls to patrol buildings round the clock during construction, erecting screens to act as fire breaks between buildings, and installing temporary fire escapes.ĭavid Nimmo, technical and construction director at Stewart Milne Timber Systems, said: “The HSE guidelines have certainly forced companies to think differently about their health and safety management.”
He added: “In terms of the cost difference between timber frame and block construction I think we are getting close to a tipping point, where traditional construction is actually less expensive, even allowing for the speed of timber frame construction.”
The main emphasis of the requirements is to prevent fires spreading throughout a site, which means contractors must implement a range of temporary fire protection measures during the building phase, increasing costs.ĭavid Stockham, divisional managing director of Balfour Beatty-owned Cowlin Construction, which has just finished a timber-frame scheme at Exeter University, said: “The increased burden of taking measures to comply with HSE fire guidance for timber frame means it is becoming less efficient and less cost effective.”
Michael timber framer series#
Use of timber frame building in the UK jumped sharply during the housing boom as contractors sought to speed up construction schedules to meet increasing demand and comply with new environmental requirements.īut a series of fires in recent years on sites where multi-storey timber frame developments were under construction led the HSE to issue more stringent safety requirements in October 2010. are warning that the cost of complying with more stringent fire safety requirements on multi-storey timber frame developments could lead to many switching back to traditional construction, writes Michael Glackin. Travel down Ferguson Falls Rd for ~5minutes, go through Ferguson Falls, and you will find Temple’s Sugar Bush on the right.Ĭontact Al Pixley at 539-2711 of Gibson Timber Frames for any timber frame plans you may have. Turn left on Ferguson Falls road, about 10 minutes from Perth. From Perth - Take Highway 7 North towards Ottawa. The dining hall will be used for a maple theme restaurant and rented as a hall for weddings and receptions. The sugar bush is open next spring for tours and the dinning hall will be operational later in 2006. It is amazing that a building of such large proportions can have such an elegant feel. The large valley rafters presented the joinery challenge that we were happy to take on.
Michael timber framer install#
We used a 35-ton crane to raise the frame over three different days, and a 44’ extending forklift to help assemble and install some of the smaller pieces. This frame took approximately 3 months to cut at the shop and 1-month on site to raise. Surrounded by Temple’s sugar maples this is a beautiful site to visit. Expertly designed by Michael Neelin of River Song Design this timber frame blends classic timber frame lines and the Lanark countryside. There will be a stone fireplace in the gable end: a perfect complement to any timber frame. When you enter the frame, you will be sheltered by a ceiling, and be visually invited into the ‘great room’ dinning hall area, where the peak reaches 30’. With principle rafters and vaulted ceilings, this is an impressive building to be in.
This T-shaped timber frame covers over 3500 sqft and is made from 10 x 10 white pine timber. Over the summer, we cut all the timber joinery at our shop in Harrowsmith, and recently raised the frame in Ferguson Falls, Lanark County. After producing detailed timber shop drawings, Mark Duffe from Gibson Timber Frames managed the job. Temple Sugar Bush hired us this spring to build a timber frame dinning hall and gift shop.
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