The Commercial Timber Guidebook

6 . 4

EXAMPLE BUILDING - TYPOLOGY 4

STRUCTURAL MATERIAL Hybrid (CLT & steel/concrete)

H E I GH T >15 storeys and >30 m

30m

BUILDING NIA >10,000 m²

M 2

MAX. FLOOR CAPACITY 1 in 12 m² NIA

CONSTRUCTION Offsite Category 3 and 5

18m

EXPOSED SURFACES CLT Soffits and Concrete

COS T <£500 million

£

CONSEQUENCE CLASS Class 3

BUILDING DESCRIPTION

Illustrative example Type 4 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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