Cross Laminated Timber Wall Panels

Cross laminated timber or clt is a structural prefabricated panel used to form environmentally sustainable walls roofs and floors across a wide range of structures.

Cross laminated timber wall panels.

After being widely adopted in europe. While clt is a timber product it should not be thought of as a timber frame product it is a timber. 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. 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 clt. Clt is an engineered wood panel with an odd number of softwood layers placed on top of each other at 90 and then bonded together under pressure to form structural panels with exceptional strength dimensional stability and rigidity. The strength dimensional stability and rigidity of clt allow it to be used in mid and high rise buildings. The gluing of both longitudinal and transverse layers which reduces the movement of the wood means that clt more than meets the standards required by modern building materials.

Crosslam australia is the first manufacturer of cross laminated timber clt panels in australia. Cross laminated timber clt is a wood panel system that is rapidly gaining popularity in the u s. We provide in house design and engineering services for using clt products in your plans. Cross laminated timber clt cross laminated timber crosslam clt is a multi layer mass timber product spanning two directions with precision accuracy resulting in a secure airtight building solution for any floor wall roof or core.

All timber elements and factory installed connection hardware is supplied by ecological design solutions pty ltd details we design with you the structure you want to build out of cross laminated panels. Our experience is constructing multistorey buildings. Innovative solid wood panels offer new large scale design options clt basics. Cross laminated timber clt a sub category of engineered wood is a wood panel product made from gluing together layers of solid sawn lumber i e lumber cut from a single log 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.

Cross laminating layers of wood veneer improves the structural properties of wood by distributing the along the grain strength of wood in both directions and this means that clt panels can be used to form complete floors walls and roofs.