NEW WEBSITE SECTION ON CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

As from today, the Construction Techniques section of our website has been extended to include all four main construction systems used to build wooden homes and other wooden constructions

- Platform Frame
- X-lam
- Post and Beam
- Blockhaus

The new pages present the different techniques, giving a detailed explanation of each method and photographic examples. Finally, we have also created a page comparing the different wooden construction techniques.

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Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further explanations.


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For those who see the home as our second body, it is essential that the approach is one of curiosity and a desire to understand, particularly if dealing with a wooden home.

On the contrary to the culture overseas, in Northern Europe and oriental tradition, for us in Italy, “construction” is synonymous of bricks and mortar.

In the last decade, new demands for eco-sustainability, earthquake-resistance and cost-saving have finally allowed us to rediscover the extraordinary construction qualities of wood.

In this new context, the expert is responsible for giving customers all the tools they need to get to know and judge a wooden home objectively, thereby enabling them to make a knowledgeable, responsible choice.

This is precisely why this coming springtime will see us complete the extension of our offices, opening a new showroom designed to provide information and training.

It is a choice that will offer a direct experience, where customers and experts gain understand, physically touch the materials and gain awareness of all the aspects that come together when building a home that looks to the future.

Development of a wooden school. Unione dei Comuni Belvedere Ostrense, Morro D’Alba e San Marcello (AN).

The new year has begun with the 7^th January opening of the new extension to the “A. Colocci” school complex.

This extension has been built entirely with a wooden support structure for all the part of the construction that stands “above ground”.

The building consists of 3 floors, with a reinforced concrete semi-basement and the other two floors built above ground using the “Platform Frame System” with wooden structures.

It was a major job, with the reinforced concrete basement measuring approximately 250 m² and the two wooden floors above ground, 1100 m².

The basement features both the area given over to housing the technological systems and 3 large rooms to be used as laboratories and archives; the floors above ground instead hold 10 classrooms, each with a capacity of 30 students and 2 blocks for toilets and maintenance rooms.

The building performance is also outstanding, with high energy efficiency, excellent acoustic comfort and fire-resistance featuring in the structures and materials used, in addition to optimum resistance to earthquakes, which is the main requirement of wooden buildings.

The technological systems are developed using floor radiating panels powered by heat pumps; the building is also fitted with a thermal solar system and ready prepared for the installation of photovoltaic panels.

We completed the construction providing a turnkey solution in approximately 180 working days, delivering before the start of the Christmas holidays so that lessons could begin regularly on Monday, 7^th January 2013.

The public administrations are increasingly choosing to build schools out of wood, mainly because of the high performance offered by this material in structural terms (significant resistance to earthquakes and fire), its great energy efficiency, the comfort in terms of the microclimate within the building and a generalised desire to build natural, sustainable constructions.

Construction characteristics:

- Construction type ‘PLATFORM FRAME SYSTEM’;

- Reinforced concrete underground structure and foundations;

- Building developed over two floors above ground;

- External perimeter wall is energy efficient to 0.130 W/M2K;

- Roof covering is energy efficient to 0.200 W/M2K;

- Exterior wall surface first basement floor approximately 252 m²;

- Exterior perimeter wall surface ground floor approximately 550 m²;

- Exterior perimeter wall surface first floor approximately 550 m²;

- Exterior plasterwork;

Client: Unione dei Comuni di Belvedere Ostrense, Morro D’Alba e San Marcello

Designers:

Dott. Ing. Alberto Bellelli

Dott. Ing. Giandomenico Ambrosi

Dott. Ing. Luigi Trillini

Dott. Ing. Alessandra Malatesta

Subissati srl  - Wooden Homes and Structures

The primary school "Madonna del Monte" was closed by Macerata City Council and then tendered out for purchase by private individuals who had attended the school as children and for whom the structure was therefore of great personal value. This is why, in addition to respecting landscape restrictions, the buildings had to be reconstructed faithful to the original architectonic characteristics.

The development consists of the construction of two buildings, one with three floors and one with two, connected to each other by a steel stairway prepared to house the lift.

This work shows just how any type of construction can be rebuilt using new wood technologies, thereby ensuring energy requalification with performance that is significantly better that current legislative requirements.

- Construction type Subissati Wooden Homes ‘PLATFORM FRAME SYSTEM’;

- Reinforced concrete foundations

- Building A with three floors and building B with two floors;

- Tiled roof;

- Total building surface area approximately 600 m²;

- Exterior cladding mixed plaster and bricks;

Client: Private

Architectonic design: Dott. Ing. Alberto Salsiccia

Structural design of wooden structures: Subissati Technical Department and Dott. Ing. Andrea Montagna

Subissati srl wooden homes and structures

The Hospice Seràgnoli Foundation, Ferrari spa and the UniCredit Foundation come together for a cutting-edge project involving training, assistance and research.

Bologna, 19 October 2012 – To mark the tenth anniversary of the creation of the first ever Hospice Seràgnoli, the first campus for terminal patients has been developed in Bentivoglio (a few kilometres from Bologna), with the completion of the new residence halls, structures allocated to participants in national and international training programmes and to house some family nucleuses of the hospice patients. The intervention, carried out by the Hospice Seràgnoli Foundation, was also supported by Ferrari spa and the UniCredit Foundation.

The campus structures cover 10,000 m² and stand in an area of 80,000 m². They consist of the hospice, the residence halls and the Academy of Palliative Medicine, which deals with training and research in these matters. This is a decisive step resulting in the one and only Palliative Medicine project in Europe, where the combination of training and assistance in its mission guarantees patients and families an excellent level of care and attention, the result of a virtuous circle model in which non-profit foundations, institutions and supporters play a key role.

A workshop will be held on these matters in Bentivoglio on Friday, 19th October at 10.30 am, to celebrate the opening of the residences, with the participation of Maurizio Carrara (Chairman of the UniCredit Foundation), Pier Luigi Celli (General Manager of the Luiss University), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (Chairman of Ferrari spa), Francesco Dal Co (Professor at the Venice IUAV), Ivano Dionigi (Rector of Bologna University), Vasco Errani (Chairman of the Regional Council of Emilia Romagna) and Francesco Ripa di Meana (General Manager of Ausl Bologna).

Defending the dignity of life through to the very end and relieving physical and psychological suffering in patients has been becoming increasingly urgent in recent years, both in the public opinion and according to institutions. In our country, only 15% of patients approaching the end of a chronic disease receive suitable treatment at the end of their lives thanks to palliative care and pain therapy, despite the fact that in 2010 Law no. 38 sanctioned the right of everyone not to suffer.

Subissati Srl has developed the four residential buildings using the platform-frame system

Construction characteristics:

- Construction type platform-frame;

- Energy class A

- Foundations with reinforced concrete floors;

- Total surface area of the four buildings 730 m².

Client: Hospice Chiantore Seràgnoli Foundation

Supervision and Management - Ing. Biondi, Geom. Croci and Ing. Castria

Works Management and Artistic Management – Arch. Iascone and Arch. Vitali

Structural and Safety Works Director – Ing. Ballardini – Ing. Montagna (Subissati srl technical department)

Plant Works Management – Ing. Ilir Shehu (mechanics) and Ing. R. Maccaferri (electricians)

Foundation works – TER Costruzioni

The building of Messrs. Perotti has been certified by the CasaClima Agency of Bolzano as energy class “Gold”, as declared by the plate affixed to the building. This certification confirms the building’s energy quality, which is self-sufficient in terms of meeting its energy requirements and has very low overall consumption.

The whole procedure by which to achieve the certification was monitored by Arch. Danilo Colletti, consultant in energy efficiency requirement attainment, with whom we are currently developing another build set to have similar thermal and acoustic performance in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata.

Subissati srl wooden homes and structures