Design Buy Build Issue 22 2016 | Page 113

UK Veneering – Decorative wood Timber & Timber Frame veneered panels made Predictable to order. Outcomes UK Veneering – Achieving Project and Cost Certainty Decorative wood veneered panels made to order. Offsite manufacturing brings numerous benefits with one of the most important being cost and programme certainty. Build systems, manufactured in factory controlled conditions, are not vulnerable to adverse weather - frost, snow and rain can have a major impact on traditional building sites, with associated budget implications. Cross laminated timber (CLT), as a prefabricated solution, is factory manufactured to exceptional levels of accuracy and delivers accelerated build programmes. Openings can be precut or routed in the factory for windows, doors or services with square corners for the quick and easy installation. For more information please visit: www.xlam-alliance.com Services Veneers • Grain matched panel sets • We always keep a large Wegrain canpanels produce complete panels to order • Short stock of standard veneersincluding cutting, shaping and lipping or we can • Radial matched frompanels. North America and veneer ourpanels customers own Whatever your veneering need we can help. • Hardwood lippings Europe like Ash, Beech, • Marquetry and inlays Maple, Oak and Walnut. Services Veneers • Hi •quality • Figured veneers Grainveneered matched panel sets • We always keep a large stock of standard sheets made to order with • Fumed (Smoked) veneers • Short grain panels veneers from North America and Europe like • consistent colour and • Pre Dyed & Engineered • Radial matched panels Ash, Beech, Maple, Oak and Walnut. grain pattern and defect veneers from • Hardwood lippings • Figured veneers free in standard and non• Tabu and Alpi • Marquetry and inlays• • Fumed (Smoked) veneers standard sizes 8x4, 10x4, 1.5mm extra thick veneers • Hi8x6, quality veneered sheets made to order with • Pre Dyed & Engineered veneers from 10x5, 10x6 etc. • Burrs consistent colour and grain pattern and defect Tabu and Alpi • Veneer backed exi layons • Bamboo veneers in standard and non-standard sizes 8x4, • 1.5mm extra thick veneers • Laserfree cut fretwork • South American, African • 44mm and 54mm 10x4, 10x5, Doors 8x6, 10x6 etc. and Asian veneers • Burrs • Veneer backed flexi layons • Laser cut fretwork • 44mm and 54mm Doors • Bamboo veneers • South American, African and Asian veneers Use of wood elements delivers faster revenue The average productivity of manufacturing companies UK Veneering Limited has risen steadily from 1990´s whereas the productivity Unit 6a, Harding Way, Somersham Road, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 3WR of construction companies has stayed flat or even declined. Faster building projects T: lead to(0)1480 faster revenue, +44 461188 [email protected] www.veneering.com thus saving money and time are the main drivers for increased usage of prefabricated elements. Compared to manufacturing industries, the construction sector is still suffering from poor economic performance. McKinsey* reports that the productivity gap between the two industries is currently 1.7-fold. The next 15 years will be crucial, since urban land area is estimated to triple between 2000 to 2030, and by 2050 almost 70 % of humankind will live in urban areas. “Construction companies are typically operating with thin profit margins, thus relatively small reductions in costs can produce significant positive impacts. Utilizing prefabricated elements could be a solution for reducing construction costs without compromising quality. Depending on the size of the investment, different degrees of prefabrication may pay off even if their prices would be higher than those of building on site”, says Matti Kuittinen, architect and researcher from Aalto University. Learn more about how using prefabricated elements can improve construction process and lead to faster revenue: www.metsawood.com/publications 113