PIVETEAUBOIS supplied 1,100m3 of Douglas Fir CLT for 16-storey Hyperion tower in Bordeaux, a symbol of France’s commitment to using higher quantities of sustainable structural timber and to decarbonising the built-environment.
Please go to page 8 of the Timber Construction magazine summer issue to read the full article.
PIVETEAUBOIS will be exhibiting at FutureBuild, ExCel London, 3-5 March 2020.
Innovation at the Heart of Wood is the PIVETEAUBOIS motto ! We are a family-run business with a deep passion for wood and 70 years experience in designing and manufacturing innovative softwood solutions.
We want to build a durable and sustainable future with timber. How about you ?
Please visit us on Stand F60 and using the PIVETEAUBOIS 360, VR headset, join the incredible journey, from the forest, to the sawmill and beyond.
We look forward to welcoming you and discussing the amazing capabilites of timber and our range of products :
– HEXAPLI CLT
Available in Pine, Douglas Fir and Spruce.
– Find out about PARKA
Our Use Classe 2 water repellent coating to protect your CLT panels from water ingress and keep them clean.
– GLULAM
Available in Pine, Douglas Fir and Spruce. Including Use Class 4 pressure treated Pine, naturally durable sapfree Douglas Fir, grey and brown pressure treated Douglas Fir. Machining and cut to size service.
To get your free ticket please visit : futurebuild19-visitor.reg.buzz
If you would like to arrange a meeting during the show, please contact Adrian Howden at adrian.howden@piveteau.com or Elisabeth Piveteau at elisabeth.piveteau@piveteau.com
FUTUREBUILD
3-5 MARCH 2020, ExCel, LONDON.
www.futurebuild.co.uk
Piveteaubois recently won the award for Best Wood Protection Project at the 2018 UK Wood Protection Awards. Organised by the UK’s Wood Protection Association and now in their fourth year, the WPA Awards for Wood Protection Excellence provide a showcase for the timber treatment industry and the vital role wood protection has to play in helping to make the most of wood.
The winning scheme was for the work at the Plaza Serrezuela, Columbia – an impressive new cultural and commercial development due to open in September 2018. The central design of the development helps to recreate visions of the old abandoned bullring with a circular central area created with preservative treated glulam Pine columns.
Piveteaubois supplied over 570m3 of pine glulam, both TANALITH and TANATONE treated, which involved intricate and careful treatment specifications. Each layer of Pine destined to make up the laminated columns had to be moisture controlled before an initial high pressure TANALITH treatment to Use Class 4 requirements. The layers were then carefully kiln-dried in preparation for the glue lamination process to create the finished columns.
Once laminated, the glulam columns were then given a further careful low pressure treatment (low pressure helping to avoid potential de-lamination issues) with TANATONE to provide the required brown colouration. Finally the columns were carefully air-dried over a few weeks to help avoid any potential mould growth or distortion during the transportation to South America. The timbers were treated and processed at Piveteaubois’s factory in Sainte Florence in France and transported in 16 containers over to Columbia.
“This is an amazing and complicated project that benefited from the use of our DURAPIN product,” said Elisabeth Piveteau-Boley, Export Sales Manager for the UK & Ireland. “The team at Piveteaubois were thrilled to win the award. We have a wealth of experience in treating timber and glulam in particular. In France, we have 10 treatment plants and have been treating timber for over 40 years. We currently treat about 130,000m3 annually of which 100,000m3 is to UC4 under our DURAPIN brand, which is recognised for the highest standards in UC4 treated timber. ”
