Rethinking Industrial Shed Construction - Consider Timber

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This Guide aims to help those involved in the decision chain (such as cost managers, estimators, design professionals, building developers and project managers) gain a better understanding of the value that timber construction systems offer industrial shed projects.

Introduction

This Guide aims to help those involved in the decision chain (such as cost managers, estimators, design professionals, building developers and project managers) gain a better understanding of the value that timber construction systems offer industrial shed projects.

The timber solution with 10.0 m portal spacing was by far the cheapest of the three options considered (9.4% cheaper than steel), followed by the timber solution with the 6.67 m portal spacing (5.0% cheaper than steel).