INSIGHTS
embodied energy frames that help minimise in-service energy requirements. Additionally, structural timber frame, with its swift construction and minimal waste, is extremely energy efficient. With even stricter environmental requirements inevitably on the
horizon, the choice of building material is an integral concern. Structural timber frame’s low heat conductivity, low embodied carbon, high structural strength, airtight construction and traceable supply chain make it an ideal choice for any contractors, specifiers and architects with sustainability and performance in mind. Labour and material shortages, as well as a much-publicised housing crisis, have resulted in building professionals starting to shift their habitual mindset. The increasing sightings of structural timber frame across the construction industry, in projects both small and large, is testament to the commercial benefits of the building material.
Initiatives such as the STA Timber Frame Estimating Guide help to drive the message that structural timber frame is sustainable, energy efficient and an ultimately cost effective substitute to concrete or brick and block. With many industry barriers now falling and those within the construction sector beginning to question the monopolistic stranglehold of ‘traditional’ building materials, the choice of structural timber frame can deliver tangible benefits on an economic and social level, both inside and outside the confines of the sector.
Andrew Carpenter is chief executive of the Structural Timber Association
Banyan Wharf in Hackney provides 50 apartments in a CLT structure designed by Hawkins/Brown
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With over 30 years of experience supplying the construction industry with timber frame structures, DG Timber Solutions offers flexible design, manufacturing and erection services.
Using wood sourced from sustainable European coniferous forests, we create a range of timber based buildings to suit unique specification of commercials builders, developers and individuals.
Suppliers of British grown
timber products As one of Britain’s largest hardwood sawmills, we offer a range of sustainable timber products including:
Please visit our website for the full range.
Vastern Timber Wootton Bassett Wiltshire T 01793 853 281
sales@vastern.co.uk
Studley, Wiltshire T 01249 813 173
An approved stockist and distributer of Mesta Wood we are able to provide I-Joist Flooring Systems.
Where sustainability is at the core of a project, we are able to provide solutions to ensure Passivhaus construction standards, certified or not, and low U-values are met.
Call today on 01933 653818, email
office@dgtimbersolutions.co.uk or visit
www.dgtimbersolutions.co.uk for more
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