Futurebuild® LVL | hyFRAME® LVL

hyFRAME® is a fully engineered, prefabricated Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) portal frame solution, designed for use as part of your total build system. It is the ideal framing solution for both rural and light commercial buildings, including a wide range of sheds.

hyFRAME has been developed to provide a single design solution for the most common environmental conditions in New Zealand. The single design has a number of advantages to provide; efficiencies through design, fabrication and quantities of scale. As a builder, installer, or shed provider hyFRAME enables you, together with your preferred merchant, to supply a fully integrated and cost-effective shed offer to your customer. All framing components, as well as any framing technical information, are supplied in the hyFRAME kitset. The hyFRAME kitset solution allows you to select your own preferred walls and flooring to easily create a tailored building solution.

Common Uses Of Hyframe Buildings:

  • Warehouses.
  • Small scale factories.
  • Animal housing.
  • Transport depots.
  • Aircraft hangers.
  • Sports halls.
  • Community buildings.
  • Fertiliser and compost storage.
Details
  • Category
    Structural & Framing
  • Brand
    Futurebuild® LVL
Features & Benefits:
  • Ease of design - available in pre-designed 12m or 15m wide spans with, 3.6m, 4.2m or 4.8m clear heights and 6m bay increments.
  • Smart and fast - the kitset-like construction process ensures accuracy of assembly and can reduce build time and minimise construction errors.
  • Corrosion resistance - LVL is naturally resistant to most corrosive chemicals, largely unaffected by most acids and alkaline environments (stainless steel fasteners available on request).
  • Aesthetics – the natural warmth and look and feel of timber.
  • Strength - LVL framing has high structural reliability and low variability with superior strength to weight ratio compared to hot rolled steel.
  • Keep it green - hyFRAME® LVL is manufactured from sustainably-grown New Zealand radiata pine available FSC® CoC Certified on request (Certificate Number: SCS-COC-001319).
  • Compliance – Futurebuild LVL is manufactured to AS/NZS 4357 and is JAS-ANZ accredited by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia (EWPAA).

Included with all hyFRAME® kitsets:

  • Structural drawings and calculations, including PS1.
  • All LVL components including.
  • Prefabricated portal frame components.
  • Purlins, blocking and lateral restraints.
  • Girts and girt involving.
  • End wall framing.
  • Bracing, footing brackets, purlin and girt brackets.
  • All fixings and fasteners required for on-site erection.
  • Technical assembly support.
  • Delivery to merchant.
  • Waterproof construction plans.

What Else Will You Need?

Outside of the hyFRAME Kitset there are some other items to consider when putting together your total customer solution:

  • Concrete slab or alternative floors
  • Mid floors or enclosed bays if required
  • Resource consent requirements
  • Architectural design and drawings
  • Cladding
  • Roofing
  • Flashings
  • Doors

These items above are not supplied by Futurebuild LVL. Finishes are best selected to suit each projects applications. Futurebuild can provide some technical insights in relation to finishing but recommend sites are finished with product best for each projects commercial application.

Carter Holt Harvey
Auckland
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About the
Seller

Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) is one of New Zealand’s leading forest products companies, manufacturing and supplying timber, laminated veneer lumber (LVL), plywood and other building products to the New Zealand market. Carter Holt Harvey together with its legacy companies has been a feature of the Australasian timber industry for more than 150 years. Carter Holt Harvey is organised into four business units: Carter Holt Harvey Building Products (CHH Timber), Carter Holt Harvey Plywood (CHH Plywood), Carter Holt Harvey LVL (Futurebuild®LVL) and Carters Building Supplies.

CHH Timber is one of the largest and oldest producers of timber building products across New Zealand. Manufacturing timber across the Kawerau, Kinleith and Nelson Mill facilities, CHH Timber produces brands Laserframe®and Pinex®for use in structurally graded or outdoor timber applications.

CHH Plywood specialises in the manufacture and supply of both structural and non-structural plywood products, with familiar brands such as Ecoply®, Shadowclad®, Ecoply Barrier and Handiply®. These brands are suitable for a range of applications subject to proposed use including structural, exterior cladding, interior lining applications, DIY and packaging among some of the many uses. The brands are specified and used within the New Zealand construction industry by Architects, Builders and DIY professionals. Operating in New Zealand for over 30 years, CHH Plywood is one of the largest producers of plywood in New Zealand and manufactures from its central North Island site at Tokoroa.

Futurebuild LVL offers the largest range of LVL products within New Zealand, which are used in projects across Australasia. Manufacturing LVL in the Marsden Point plant, Futurebuild LVL produces brands hySPAN®, hyJOIST®, hyONE®, hy90®, hyCHORD®, truFORM®, hyPLANK®, edgeFORM®, and hyFRAME® building systems. Futurebuild LVL products are used in applications such as floor joists, beams, rafters, lintels, truss chords and purlins in construction of residential, commercial, industrial and rural buildings, subject to design verification.