Status
- Approved
Type
- Design
- Manufacture
- PM Construction
Technology
- Sydenham Timber Engineering Timber Frame Building System
Description of the Sydenham Timber Engineering Timber Frame Building System
Sydenham Timber Engineering Ltd is a Timber engineering company offering high quality prefabricated closed panel timber frame buildings to the construction industry. The building are supplied as a panelised system. The panels are manufactured at their factory before being loaded onto standard Lorries and transported to sites though-out, the UK and erected. They provide closed panel internal and external load bearing walls along with engineered floors and prefabricated roof trusses.
External wall panels consist of 140mm x 38mm treated timber studs to structural engineer’s design with 9mm OSB sheathing boards or A1/A2 rated boards clad externally with breather membrane and some form of cladding system, depending on the site specific requirement and subject to local planning requirements. Insulation is friction fitted between the studs in the factory or on site. Where openings are required in the panels, these are accommodated as required with any additional lintels being incorporated.
On completion of the structural frame the roof is fitted and is site specific. The roof can be either a flat roof or engineered truss or typical rafter system depending on local authority planning. Externally the walls are clad with either masonry or some form of cladding which is site specific.
Pitched roofs are formed using engineered timber trusses at a maximum of 600mm centres as a cold roof, typically with 400mm Rockwool (or similar) insulation. A vapour control layer is fitted to the underside of the trusses before lining the ceilings with plasterboard.
Intermediate floors consist of metal web joists with acoustic insulation and plasterboard and project specific floor deck.
Floor cassettes are supported by the load bearing walls, again resisting the cumulative axial loads down to foundation level. Overall stability of the structure below the roof level is dependent on the floor construction transferring horizontal loads to the shear walls.