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Timber Joint Detail at King Post with Steel Gusset Plates and Bolts
Joint Detail for Wakenah Pool

We prepare detailed shop drawings in-house for all of our frames. The drawings normally include frame elevations, 3d perspectives, bent sections and joint details of every connection.

Heavy timber commercial work typically falls under division 06130, division 6130, division 06170 or division 06180. For a more expansive list of the architects and clients we've worked with, go to our Cool Links page. If you would like more information, please call (802) 886-1917 or E-Mail us .

Sample shop drawings are attached to the thumbnails below in .pdf format. Please feel free to click an the thumbnail and download the attached file for review. There are perspectives, plans, layouts and joint details. More .pdf's are posted on individual project pages, which can be found by browsing through the gallery pages. The drawings are of actual projects we have designed, engineered, handcrafted, fabricated and erected.

3D rotatable files of our frames can also be downloaded from this page. Scroll down to the Sample 3d Drawings section. You may need to download an o2c viewer. It will take a minute to do, but it will be worth it! Click here to download the o2c Viewer

   
House Beautiful Featured Post & Beam Living Room Interior

This house, with its hand hewn frame, was featured on the December 2003 Cover of House Beautiful.

Perspectives

Bent Profiles

Joint Details

3d Rotatable Frame
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Darien, CT House  
 
Timber Framed Alter for the Poor Clares

The Bethlehem Monastery for the Poor Clares was built in Barhamsville, Virginia. We worked with Create Architecture to value engineer a beautiful frame.

Perspectives

Bent Profiles

Joint Details

3d Rotatable Frame
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Bethlehem Monastery of the Poor Clares  
 
60 Foot Timber and Steel Double Corded Scissor Truss

The Executive Center was built in Armonk, NY. Its largest spans have 60' Trusses on 20' centers. The trusses are double chorded with tube steel sandwiched between chords at high stress points.

Roof Framing Plan

Truss Profiles

Joint Details

Steel Details

Executive Center  
 
Arched Timber for Grove City College Student Center

The Grove City College Student Center is in Grove City, PA. It is a modified hammer beam design with principle purlins. The relatively small and elegant framing members act as an arched frame restrained by steel diaphragms on either side of the main hall.

Plan & Perspectives

Truss Profile

Octagon Truss

Joint Details

3d Rotatable Frame
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Grove City College  
 
Texas Ranch - Post & Beam Party Barn with Curved Braces

The Hermes Barn is Shiner Texas. It was built mainly as an equipment barn for a small ranch, but will also be used for parties and entertainment.

Plan & Perspectives

Bent Profiles

Joint Details

More Joint Details

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Hermes Barn  
 
 
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