The differences in the different kind of timber building, traditional joinery versus butt joints with bolted steel plates.
Learn the difference between post and beam construction and timber frame construction methods, including which is right for your next project.
Eastern River Post and Beam raised this outdoor hemlock chapel in southern Maine.
What is a timber frame without the joints and joinery that allows them to stand up on their own? Explore the over 125+ timber frame joints in this online resource.
A few photos of one of our recent installations. As part of an entire backyard installation, we created an outdoor room built into a small slope. The stone wall…
This hammer-beam eave detail shows the housing in the post to accept both the rafter and the beam. It uses pegs and screws to hold everything together.
Use our 14x20 timber post beam barn shed plans blueprints and install a beautiful garden shed within a short time. This large 14 feet by 20 feet timber-frame shed combines traditional and modern architecture techniques. Unlike regular timber-frame constructions, we didn't use any scarf joint or mortise-and-tenon joint in this…
per the the minimal/maximal thread request. a visual homage. outlet: bocci 22 stair: delicious steel counter: john pawson skin: suedwestmetall, allman sattler wappner handrail: st ignatius chapel, steven holl (i wish the screws aligned...) handrail: ICA, ds+r sink: holy rosary complex, trahan...
the wooden timber structure is built using a medium that emphasizes its message of nature conservation and awareness amongst the general public.
Check out Timberpeg's residential timber frame homes for ideas on how to create your dream timber frame or post and beam abode.
A few photos of one of our recent installations. As part of an entire backyard installation, we created an outdoor room built into a small slope. The stone wall…
Tips on how to build a Post and Beam shed in your garden
Beams, defined as elongated members that are loaded perpendicular to their long axis, are critical to the structure of a house.
A DIY tutorial on how to expose wood beams in an antique post and beam farmhouse. See a complete ceiling makeover to reveal original wood beams.
Does it seem like whenever you want to spend your day off outside, the weather foils your plans? Rain and hot sun can compress the already too short summer into only a few nice days. Expand your summertime and beat the elements by building this pavilion.
Raise high the roof-beam regains its meaning when the structure in question is a timber frame.Craftsmanship shows in each timber as it connects to the next.
A cross-lap joint creates clean, continuous lines in a timber frame. They almost make it look like the timbers are magically connected.
The CCC is designed to provide strong column-to-beam connections when there are multiple wood beams on top of a column. When properly installed, this cross column cap helps to distribute the load from the intersecting beams and provides support for the connection. The CCC is special-ordered per specific details from the designer to accommodate the many combinations of beam and post sizes. THIS IS A CUSTOM, MADE TO ORDER PRODUCT, NON RETURNABLE Material 7 gauge or 3 gauge depending on size Finish Simpson Strong-Tie Gray paint (Also available in HDG Contact us for Quote) Options Many combinations of beam and post sizes can be manufactured. Refer to worksheet Options for Multiple-Beam, Bolted Column Caps. The download shall be determined from the allowable loads for the unmodified product (see the Specifications link). The side beam can take a maximum of 40% of the download and shall not exceed 10,665 lb. The sum of the loads for the side beam(s) and main beam can not exceed the table load. Uplift loads do not apply for ECCL caps. For CCC and CCT, uplift loads from table apply for main beam only. The column width in the direction of the main beam width must be the same as the main beam width (W1). Specify the stirrup height from the top of the cap. The minimum side stirrup heights (H2 or H3) is 6 1/2" (3 1/2" for 44s). The L dimension may vary depending on the width of the side stirrup (W3 or W4). Column caps may be ordered without the column straps for field welding to a steel column. Specify CCOC/CCOT/ECCOL. Weld by Designer. Full loads apply. Note: The image displayed is a generic representation of the type of product. Product dimensions and/or Screw or Bolt holes may differ from picture. Please see item description for specifications.
This hammer-beam eave detail shows the housing in the post to accept both the rafter and the beam. It uses pegs and screws to hold everything together.
Monument Channel Cottage is a wonderful post and beam vacation retreat designed by Core Architects, sited in Monument Channel Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.
The devil is in the details - when building your home check out these unique timber frame photos of construction details to add creativity to your project.
This 14×16 post and beam plan is a moderately-sized outbuilding that is easy to build! It has 224 square feet between the posts and generous two-foot overhangs on all sides. This size of this structure makes it fit into most backyards, but it is large enough for a variety of uses. Use it as a hot tub shelter, outdoor dining pavilion, gardener’s shed, or anything else you can think of. Engineered connectors greatly simplify cutting and joining the frame. To make your life even easier, you can purchase the connector kit from us at Timber Frame HQ! No need to look all over for the parts you need – we have figured that out for you! You can change the style and proportions of the plan to your taste with the optional roof pitch variations (included in the drawings) available from 3:12 to 12:12! The drawing set includes plan views, elevations, section drawingsand individual piece drawings. 3d renderings are included, with x-ray views to show you all the details and connectors to help you visualize and cut the frame. There is a full timber list to make your timber purchase painless. We include a detailed fastener schedule. The drawings are formatted in PDF for instant download. They are sized at 8 ½” x 11”, for easy printing at home. Frequently Asked Questions Do you offer the whole kit? Yes we do! Just fill out the form HERE and will will be in touch soon with more information and pricing. Can you modify this plan for me? Yes, we can modify our plans to the size you need on a custom basis. For more information on the services that we offer and how the process works check out the page HERE. If that is something that would interest you, fill out the brief questionnaire HERE or click Get Started Today on the main Design Page from above. As soon as we get your information and give it a quick review we’ll contact you to schedule a phone meeting. Please allow a few days for our team to respond. Before our discussion, we urge you to buy the set of plans that most resembles the alteration that you seek. This will allow you to study the plans thoroughly, think through any other changes or design aspects that you want. Are your plans engineered? The plans we offer on our website are not stamped by an engineer. People build our frames all over the country, and in each location, there are different requirements. Timber species, design loads and values needed are just some of the factors engineers need to take into account in each case. We do offer engineering services as an add-on to our standard plans. If this is something you are interested in, head HERE and fill out the brief questionnaire. Armed with that information, we can get our heads into your project before we speak. 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(click image for full size) These construction details show the structural connections between porch beam, post, and pier/footing. I developed these for a new house in Mendenhall, MS in 2010. Durin…
Forged beam bracket. Dovetails and rivets. Solid as hell.
Completed in 2004 in Joensuu, Finland. Images by SARC Architects. The construction of The Finnish Forest Research Institutes (METLA) new building to accommodate the Joensuu Forest Research Institutes expanding...
The North Star Construction Square House is set apart from standard residential housing in many ways. Our mission has been to design and engineer a home that is not just different, but better. Our design requires as little material as possible, produces as little waste as possible, and ends up being a home requiring little or no maintenance due to the materials and design. Steel post and beam construction is primarily reserved for extremely large industrial buildings or high end custom home construction. Our experience over decades of work in both of those fields has led us to the understanding that the reasons why steel post and beam construction is normally a costly method of building is not due to the material costs. It is due to the design of those structures and the amount of labor required to change the stock materials into custom shapes and sizes. Therefore, in our Square Houses we utilize steel structural materials in the lengths which they are produced, decreasing or eliminating the need to work with (or rather against) those materials. Most homes are designed with specific room sizes as a starting point. Our structures start with materials dimensions and we work backwards from there to produce a functional and comfortable floor plan while radically decreasing material waste in the process. Steel I-Beams are produced in 40’ lengths. Our homes use 40’ I-Beams. No cutting, no labor, no waste. The materials are ordered, delivered, and hoisted into place. The steel posts which we use are produced in 20’ lengths. We have spent the time with pen, paper, and computer to eliminate the time required with saws, grinders, and torches. In our designs, a single 20’ steel post is cut one time in order to produce two usable posts. The central posts are each one half of a full 20’ section and the north and south posts are both taken from a full 20’ section as well. All of this is done without one single piece of wasted steel or one single man hour on site. All the materials come from the steel plant ready to be incorporated into our structures. No site cutting, so splice plates to be welded, no bolt plates to be drilled. Everything shows up ready to go, just as it is. Other elements of material savings arise from the use of steel as a post and beam material. In order to produce a largely passive solar home, we have maximized the amount of glass (primarily south facing glass) in our structures. By doing this, it requires large free spans and without moving towards steel as a component, an incredibly large amount of wood would be required to create those spans. And it is not just wood that would be required, but manufactured wood which means that the trees are not only cut down, but they are then processed into beam material. In looking at the entire package of sustainability, it is important to look at the processing methods for materials and how much energy goes into producing those materials in reference to what their likely life spans will be as a building material. You must look at not just what the planet must give up for that function, but also how long that material will last in that function. The Square House supporting structure is comprised of 6 steel posts and 3 beams with a structural concrete and block fireplace. The walls and glass panels in between the posts are not load-bearing. They are integrated as shear-panels in order to aid in the resistance to lateral loads, but the walls are not incorporated to bear vertical loads. This gives us great flexibility with our design in regards to window location and size. Our design starts with a fully engineered and reinforced concrete footing section and block pilasters. The stem wall blocks are reinforced with steel bars and are core filled with concrete after being insulated on the interior and exterior surfaces. Steel plates are welded to the posts Steel anchor bolts are cast into the pilasters anchoring the posts and plates directly to the foundation creating a structural bond from footing through the post structure. The posts are also incorporated into the concrete slab with reinforcing bar thereby producing a post and beam structure that is actually integrated into the foundation, stem wall, and slab of the house. Anchor bolts are welded to the faces of the posts in order to bolt the wall panels in place, creating a membrane of resistance to lateral loads. Anchor boltsare welded to the top surface of the I-Beams to tie the entire roof structure into the previously raised structure. The I-Beams are attached with full circumference welds to the posts locking the entire structure from truss to footing. While most structures you live in are held together with nails, Square Houses are bolted from roof truss to concrete footing and engineered to stay that way. The Square House design is not a better home because it is attractive. It is attractive because it is a better home. For more information or to schedule a tour of one of our homes, please contact our sales and contract manager Ed Lyons at 1-505-577-0490 or by emailing him at [email protected] If you have a specific technical or design question, you are welcome to contact our senior designer Paul Werenko at [email protected] . Thank you for your time and interest in what we do. Our next information section http://www.squarehouseinfo4.blogspot.com/ should be up soon so please check back! End Note #1: There is one other element to our steel post and beam design which we are so proud of that I feel compelled to include this information. As we have already discussed, the central posts are each one half of a full 20’ piece of steel. The north posts and the south posts come from another full 20’ section. Although our calculations for proper solar gain have been developed for the latitudes of central to northern New Mexico, our design allows us to adapt to any latitude. Since both the north and south posts come from one 20’ section, we can add to the dimension of the north post (before cutting) while decreasing the dimension of the south post by that same amount (or vice versa) in order to angle the roof plane for our projects that lie outside our latitude (without wasting one inch of material or changing the structural engineering!) The central posts stay the same length and the entire roof plane pivots to the south or to the north and can be adjusted in the design phase for sites that may exist from Central America to the Arctic Circle. (Yes, we can do the southern hemisphere too.) End Note #2: For our engineer friends, I refer to the I-Beams as I-Beams and not the technical term “W” in order to avoid the necessary ten paragraphs to describe the difference between the two. We know they are “W’s” and more specifically, the beams we use are W10X22 End Note #3: Technically, they are CMU’s and not Cinder Blocks. The CMU stands for Concrete Masonry Unit, and although the industry used to call it a Cinder Block, we don’t any more. But the interesting part is that the name was changed because cinders are carcinogenic and they are no longer used in the manufacture of blocks. So, although you will hear people say “Cinder Blocks” the truth is they are no more cinder than a 2x4 (which, by the way, a good botanist will tell you that a 2x4 does actually contain trace amounts of cinders). End Note #4: A designer is not an architect. An architect is not an engineer. Contrary to popular belief, the home you are most likely living in right now was not engineered. It was, however, drawn by someone, most likely a designer or an architect, but that does not mean that it was engineered. Standard housing in the US does not require an engineer’s review or involvement. Most people are shocked by that simple fact but it is true. The common argument for engineering being “not necessary” in the process of residential home construction is that building codes, if adhered to, provide a level of protection against improperly built structures. Although this may protect against improperly built structures, it will not guard against improperly designed structures. Our homes are designed by us and engineered by Walla Engineering of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We would like to thank Mike Walla and his entire staff for decades of professionalism and not just answers, but the right answers. End Note #4b: State construction inspectors are, in the current building environment, overtaxed. Their work loads allow them brief visits to the jobsites at best. It is common that in a 5 month project we will actually have a total of 30 to 40 minutes of inspection time. A quality builder cannot anticipate that state sanctioned inspections are going to provide any semblance of engineering. That, coupled with our belief that when someone says they “build to code”, it simply means that they are building the worst structure that the Federal Government will allow them to build. Codes, like speed limits are thresholds that one should not hover around. Our structures are engineered to provide the best house without material waste. That is the code that should be adhered to, not the minimum standards allowed by your elected officials, who are, I might ad, not engineers (and most likely, neither is your inspector).
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Texas Twister is a vacation home by BuildingStudio Architects that is designed with a post-tensioned slab on grade, steel posts and glulam beams and this
Learn the difference between post and beam construction and timber frame construction methods, including which is right for your next project.
Working with Architects West, the owners of this riverside residence wanted to push the boundaries when designing their contemporary home in the Inland Northwest. To achieve a look that was both clean and crisp, materials such as concrete and steel were featured heavily throughout the home. Passersby are quick to marvel at the distinct prow point in the roof design, the contrast of steel and concrete against the warmth of wood soffits and siding, concrete panels at the entry and a custom pivot door. The waterfall effect of the standing seam siding marks this residence as a true work of art.
