Wood Frames: The advantages
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Contrary to popular belief, France has a great tradition of wooden architecture which has left us many examples of magnificent wood-built edifices that are still as sturdy and beautiful after several centuries. To build a wooden house is to benefit from ancestral skills passed down from one generation to the next since the beginnings of time.
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Like the workmen who worked on building the cathedrals of the past, our technicians and carpenters master the skills and techniques of wood-frame construction. |
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The wood used to build individual homes or collective housing offers not only all its inherent qualities, but also the possibility to create innovative architecture that fits naturally into its environment.
Wood Frame Kit: Made-to measure, ready-to-install
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The modern techniques used today to work wood allow this most natural of materials to be used in many types of construction. It also offers other benefits in that it is a renewable resource and can be transformed with low energy costs.
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To make a success of a structure, there must be cooperation, and almost complicity, between the architect handling the design and the design office which will be preparing the technical specifications for the carpenters making and assembling the strcture on site.
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Our workers and technicians provide an interface with the architect, drawing and shaping traditional timber frame kits that are ready to be installed. Our fully-automated woodworking machines guarantee precision cutting, drilling and perfect joints.
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Traditional timber frame kits manufactured by modern high-performance tools are only possible thanks to all the know-how inherited from master builders and carpenters whose skills provide the basis for the highly sophisticated programmes of our robotic systems.
Then there are a whole range of accessories: wall plates, anchorage systems (corner plates, joist hangers, pegs), bracing, cross-bars, rafters and roof coverings (PVC, wood slats and panelling).
Glu-lam
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The technical and architectural possibilities of glu-lam wood are many. Aesthetics, low maintenance and good fire resistance are some of the multiple advantages of this material. |
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