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Friday, February 04, 2011
Following a long tradition of innovation, Nordic Engineered Wood and Chantiers Chibougamau are proud to bring cross-laminated timber to North America.
The design community has enthusiastically embraced CLT construction as a valued engineered building system that provides exceptional performance while maintaining the smallest environmental footprint.
Becoming the product of choice for engineers and architects interested in sustainable and cost effective solutions, X-Lam has many advantages:
• Building shell erection time can be greatly reduced.
• In comparison to other building materials, X-Lam has a very low thermal conductivity.
• Due the crosswise arrangement of the board layers and the advanced wood drying
techniques used by Chantiers Chibougamau Ltd, the product does not shrink or swell.
The cross-laminated timber construction members therefore remain very accurately
fitted and dimensionally stable.
• X-Lam is manufactured using softwood from sustainably managed forests. Compared
to other solid construction methods, the manufacturing of cross-laminated timber
components requires very little energy. It contributes to sustainable carbon storage
and thus to the minimization of the greenhouse effect through the fusion of CO2.
• Planar construction with closed surface layers achieves considerable benefits for heat,
moisture, fire and sound protection since air movements within the structure are prevented.
• At the end of the project’s life, X-Lam can be recycled.
For more information on X-Lam, consult our literature section or contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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