mass timber home project made of nail-laminated timber
Connecticut | USA
The Guilford Demonstration Building is the first of its kind on the U.S. East Coast: an innovative timber construction built entirely with welded-wood nail-laminated timber (wNLT) – a multi-layer mass timber building method in which the wall elements are connected using the lignin adhesion effect created by LIGNOLOC® wooden nails.
The structure of the home is based on wNLT elements. These are adjacent solid wood sections that are held together by LIGNOLOC® wooden nails. When shot in with BECK pneumatic nailers, the wooden nails bond permanently with the surrounding wood through lignin adhesion – entirely without full-surface gluing or metal. This allows nail-laminated timber elements to be produced cost-effectively, building on construction techniques widely established in the USA.
Project data
-
Project: Guilford wNLT Demonstration Building
-
Location: Guilford, Connecticut, USA
-
Completion: 2024
-
Architecture & Planning: Jana VanderGoot
-
Construction: Mass timber home made from nail-laminated timber, fastened with LIGNOLOC® wooden nails
-
LIGNOLOC® Application: Fastening of nail-laminated timber components with LIGNOLOC® wooden nails (wNLT)
-
Photo Credit: Nail-Laminated Timber Demonstration Building, Guilford, CT. Design by Jana VanderGoot, Architect and Construction by Josh Beebe, 2023
