Passive House Made of Timber in Lugo, Spain
Customer Project
The Dlubal customer Maderas Besteiro is a third-generation family owned company focused in construction and manufacturing with timber. The driving value of the company of providing social and environmental sustainability houses to the local community has come truth once again.
| Architect |
Jorge Gomez Cereijo |
| Structural analysis |
Maderas Besteiro |
Model
The one-story house made of cross-laminated and glued-laminated timber will be awarded with the prestigious certification for passive houses, a symbol of high quality standards in terms of energy efficiency and CO2 consumption.
Structure and Design
The house has an irregular floor plan and is based on a reinforced concrete floor slab. The wall and roof structure is made of cross-laminated timber. The roof structure is reinforced with glulam beams of class GL24h to define a special inverted roof with sharp cantilevers standing out of the façade. In order to achieve high spans, the timber beams had to be reinforced with steel beams at some locations of the roof.
The finite element program RFEM was used to simulate the structural behavior of the entire system including line hinges between the cross-laminated timber panels and the elastic foundation under the floor slab. The design according to standard was performed with the add-on modules RF-LAMINATE and RF-CONCRETE Surfaces in order to optimize thicknesses.
It was necessary to create a local model to evaluate the connection between steel and timber beams on the cantilevers and to analyze the resistance of fasteners (pulling out) under specific situations such as wind pressure and suction.
Project Location
Ferreira MosteiroLugo, Spain
Keywords
Passive house Glued-laminated timber Cross-laminated timber cross-laminated timber panel
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Programs Used for Structural Analysis
RFEM
Main Program
Main Program
Structural engineering software for finite element analysis (FEA) of planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, members (beams), solids and contact elements
Price of First License
3,540.00 USD
3,540.00 USD
RFEM
Concrete Structures
Add-on Module
Design of reinforced concrete members and surfaces (plates, walls, planar structures, shells)
Price of First License
810.00 USD
810.00 USD
RFEM
Other
Add-on Module
Deflection analysis and stress design of laminate and sandwich surfaces
Price of First License
1,120.00 USD
1,120.00 USD
RFEM
Steel and Aluminum Structures
Add-on Module
Stress analysis of steel surfaces and members
Price of First License
1,030.00 USD
1,030.00 USD
