Lancaster County Timber Frames was recently selected by the Pittsburgh Zoo to supply and erect a timber framed restaurant in the African Savannah area. The Pittsburgh Zoo is one of only six major zoo and aquarium combinations in the US. It occupies 77 acres and houses over 4,000 animals of 475 species of which 20 […]
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CHANGES Part 4
Panels In the early eighties the panels that were most commonly available to timber framers were not called SIPs (structural insulated panels); they were simply called “panels” or “insulated panels” or “skins”. Typically, such panels were comprised of a sheet of ½”, or more correctly 7/16’, OSB (oriented strand board) adhered to a layer of […]
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Depth of Experience Because timber framing in America lay mostly dormant from the late 1800’s until the 1970’s, and because the resurgence didn’t really pick up momentum until the early 1980’s, the playing field for companies was somewhat level. Very few timber frame companies had a depth of past projects that they could point to […]
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