Techniques for building construction using fabricated timbers

摘要

Techniques for building construction using fabricated timbers. In one example, such timbers are fabricated using conventional 2× (two-by) lumber to produce a square log appearance. These fabricated timbers are stacked to form outside and/or inside walls. The fabricated timbers and walls are configured to sustain desired vertical and lateral loads anticipated of a building such as a cabin, home, garage, barn, office building, or the like. A building constructed using such timbers appears to be built of square logs. Fabricated timber construction, as compared to conventional log or stick-frame construction, provides the appearance of high-quality log construction at a far lower cost, with higher R-values and appraised values, and is also far lower in cost and much simpler than conventional stick-frame construction.

主权项

1. A fabricated timber comprising:
a first vertical member that is substantially cuboid in shape and that is of a first length of at least one foot, and of a first height of at least three inches, and of a first thickness; a second vertical member that is substantially cuboid in shape and that is of a second length of at least one foot, and of a second height of at least three inches, and of a second thickness; and a horizontal member that is substantially cuboid in shape and that is of a length of at least one foot, and of a width of at least three inches, and of a third thickness, the first vertical member disposed length-wise upon a left length-wise top edge of the horizontal member, a vertical plane of the first vertical member substantially perpendicular to a horizontal plane of the horizontal member, the second vertical member disposed length-wise upon a right length-wise top edge of the horizontal member, a vertical plane of the second vertical member substantially perpendicular to the horizontal plane of the horizontal member and substantially parallel with the vertical plane of the first vertical member, where a right outer face and a left outer face of the horizontal member that are length-wise parallel with the disposed first vertical member and the disposed second vertical member are not covered by the first vertical member or by the second vertical member, where the first vertical member is disposed length-wise along the left length-wise top edge of the horizontal member resulting in a reveal of a bottom of the first vertical member of up to at least fifty percent of the first thickness, and where a plurality of timbers including the fabricated timber stacked one atop another form a wall.