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On the afternoon of the 22nd of January 2015 graduates
and students from the Midlands Counties group attended a site visit at Meadows primary
school in Northfield which sits to the southwest of Birmingham city centre.
The project at Meadows primary school is the construction of
a two storey classroom block to the existing building which utilises CLT (Cross
Laminated Timber) as the main structural material.
Before entering onto the site the graduates and students
heard from Kierton Risdale, Technical Manager for B&K Structures, CLT
Supplier on the project. The young members learned about the benefits of Timber
Construction, in particular CLT, its advantages over more traditional methods
of construction, the manufacturer process, the company’s structure and its
partnership between Austrian manufacturers Binderholz. The members also learned
how CLT was being utilised elsewhere in the UK to construct high rise structures.
Once on the site our young members could see the CLT being
constructed, at the time there was a 60 tonne truck mounted crane lifting in 8m
spanning CLT floor panels. The Member also learned about some of the problems
faced during the design of the CLT, such as resisting lateral loads with the
shear walls, the integration between Sub-Structure and Super-Structure and how
resistance to ‘sliding’ or the horizontal loads are achieved at this
intersection.
A huge thanks goes out to B&K Structures for their time
and effort spent showing the group around their site and for answering all the
queries that the group had.
We would like to thank B&K Structures for hosting us.
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Post author: Tasha
