Timber Frame Construction: The New Wave of Building

Wood has been a beloved building material for ages. Despite being overshadowed by industrial materials, it’s now enjoying a resurgence, especially in private and multi-story residential construction. Wood is also increasingly chosen for public and commercial buildings due to its structural benefits.
 

fermacell® Gypsum Fibre Boards: Enhancing Wood’s Legacy Matching wood’s properties and offering quick installation, fermacell® boards are a modern complement to wood, outperforming other materials with ease and efficiency.

Your advantages with fermacell® at a glance:

  • Simple installation
  • Stable and resilient
  • Safe fire protection
  • Best room climate

Economical

Most applications in timber construction can be carried out with only one type of board. fermacell® gypsum fibre boards can be used universally as construction, fire protection and moisture-proof boards and are equally suitable for wall and ceiling constructions. For the majority of requirements - also in fire protection - a single-layer planking is completely sufficient. This is because the boards are particularly stable and resilient due to the special manufacturing process in which recycled paper fibers are pressed together with gypsum and water under high pressure. The processing of only one type of board with single-layer planking also makes the use of fermacell® gypsum fiber boards particularly economical. The lower material requirement noticeably reduces costs and ensures shorter processing times.
 



 

Prefabrication

A fast and weather-independent prefabrication of the individual components under ideal conditions guarantees a high quality of the components, makes on-time planning and assembly possible and ensures short construction times. When assembling fermacell® gypsum fibre boards, no acclimatisation times of several days need to be taken into account. Rather, they can be processed immediately after delivery without any loss of time. This accelerates the entire prefabrication process and binds less storage volume. This quickly creates space for new projects and increases cost-effectiveness.


 

Statics

Due to their high stability, fermacell® gypsum fiber boards can be used both load-bearing and stiffening and can be used for planking and cladding components.
 

Earthquake resistance

fermacell® gypsum fibre boards are durable - even when the earth is wobbly - and can be used in all earthquake regions for the construction of single-storey and multi-storey buildings in wood panel construction. The corresponding suitability of areas has been proven in extensive investigations at various European institutes.
 

Sound insulation

Even single-ply constructions planked with fermacell® gypsum fibre boards achieve better sound insulation values than, for example, constructions planked with two-ply wood-based panels. Various testing institutes have confirmed the excellent sound insulation properties of fermacell® gypsum fibre boards.


 

Fire protection

Timber construction with fermacell® gypsum fibre boards is also on the safe side in the event of fire. They are classified as non-combustible according to the requirements of building material class A2 and thus offer reliable and high band protection. Wooden constructions covered on both sides with a single layer of fermacell® gypsum fibre boards easily achieve fire resistance class F 60.
 

Healthy room climate

As a natural building material, wood contributes to a pleasant room climate. fermacell® gypsum fibre boards supplement these properties by regulating humidity and temperature. Since fermacell® gypsum fibre boards are manufactured exclusively from natural materials without any glue additives, they do not contain any hazardous substances such as formaldehyde. They have been proven to be practically emission-free. These positive building biology properties of fermacell® gypsum fibre boards have been confirmed by the Institute for Building Biology in Rosenheim with the IBR test seal and by the renowned Cologne eco Institute with the award of the "Low-Emission Product" certificate.

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