The Commercial Timber Guidebook

6 . 3

EXAMPLE BUILDING - TYPOLOGY 3

STRUCTURAL MATERIAL Hybrid (CLT & steel/concrete)

H E I GH T 10 storeys and <30m

30m

30m

BUILDING NIA >30,000 m 2 , <50,000 m 2

M 2

MAX. FLOOR CAPACITY 1 in 12 m 2 NIA

18m

18m

CONSTRUCTION Offsite Category 3 and 5

EXPOSED SURFACES CLT/Steel or Concrete

COS T £50 million

£

CONSEQUENCE CLASS Class 2B

BUILDING DESCRIPTION

Illustrative example Type 3 is a commercial office building with retail use at ground floor.

It is made from a hybrid construction , using mass timber floor slabs and steel columns and beams. It has a concrete core with exposed CLT floor slabs to upper floor office space.

The building has a non combustible roof installed to falls.

It is clad in a non-combustible rainscreen cladding system , with provisions to prevent fire spread between floors.

An example plan of the illustrative building

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Example Buildings

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