Boise offers sustainable LVL VERSA-LAM beams

VERSA-LAM beams from Boise Cascade are regularly employed by specifiers to form wall columns within domestic and other types of structure.

According to Boise Cascade, aside from the ubiquitous house brick, there are not many building components that can be readily rotated through an angle of 90 degrees from their originally intended position, and still offer the same level of performance.

VERSA-LAM sections are produced from LVL (laminated veneered lumber), and offer total consistency in terms of their physical characteristics, and will not warp or shrink.

Employed as columns they can eliminate the problem of settlement movement which has inhibited the use of timber frame for multi-storey developments.

VERSA-LAM beams are available in a wide range of sizes, and are able to support heavier loads than equivalent engineered timber products and can be substituted for Boise's BCI Joists within the manufacturer's Simple Framing System.

LVL represents sustainable use of timber, which is in itself a renewable resource, therefore VERSA-LAM is both environmentally friendly and cost effective.

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