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Glulam Timber From The Past
Here are some recent photos of the Greece Assembly of God church near Rochester, NY. This building combines Tudor arch design with traditional timber frame construction. The church choir is framed with...
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Shop Fitting A Glulam Truss
When we're making glulam, it's often not enough to simply finish the members. Some jobs are highly fabricated, involving many connections. In those cases, we work to shop fit the glulam with the steel...
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New Glulam Building
Here's a look at a new building made with glulam.For this recent project, we manufactured glulam columns using pressure treated lumber to add protection where members have the least weather shielding...
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Multi-Story Timber Structure
Multi-story mass timber construction has been making headlines, and Unalam has been involved in some exciting projects. The nearby Bank of Utica recently renovated and added on a three story office...
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Finished Glulam Canopy
Our customer, Ben at Gradient Architecture shared more photos that he and Brian Ness took of a recent glulam project. These are photos of the new canopy on Seneca Lake in Geneva, NY. We blogged about...
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Throwback Thursday: St. Mark's Church Greece, NY
We once had this slogan: 'The Beauty of Wood Is More Than Skin Deep.' It spoke to the intrinsic value of using wood in structures, besides the fact that it looks fantastic. Seeing these photos of St....
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Music Center With Glulam Recital Hall Taking Shape
Work continues at the Music Center at Indian Hill, and we have some great progress photos to share. Again, we send our thanks to David Foxe at Epstein Joslin Architects, Inc. for these photos.The photo...
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Fitting Steel On Glulam Columns
How do you fit steel connections over large combination glulam columns?...carefully.Joking aside, these columns stood out to us when we saw them in fabrication. They're 14" x 14" so we needed to...
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Interior Glulam Bridge
Unalam manufactured the glulam stringers for three interior bridges in this new educational facility. Our fabrication department had to cut channels in the stringers, where handrails will later be...
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Let's Take A Road Trip!
The next time you're driving through the northeast, remember to stop by the Maine Visitor Center in Kittery. Opened in 1973, this road side landmark features an interesting glulam roof structure that...
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Shop-Assembled Glulam Brackets
These little brackets caught my eye in our finishing department. They're a great example of the shop assembly that we can do for our customers - and of wood plugging over concealed connections. You can...
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#ThrowbackThursday Springbrook's Family Engagement Center
photo credit: SpringbrookIn 2017, Springbrook - a leading organization providing support and service to people with developmental disabilities - built a family engagement center. This allows families...
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New Photos From Music Center at Indian Hill
While installation of glulam has paused over the last few months at the Music Center at Indian Hill, steel and concrete work have continued. These photos are of the complex concrete towers and "bridge"...
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Horizontal Curved Glulam
We have been asked quite often to glue horizontal curves (even complete circles) for pergolas. Here are a couple of photos of a recent project installed in Niagara Falls, NY. Thank you to our customer...
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Completed Photos - Glulam Chapel
We can't believe it, but it's been two years since we completed this highly custom job that included a huge steel connection and a glulam circle beam. Time flies when you're making glulam!Our sales...
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Glulam Pavilion
We're posting more outdoor pavilion photos today, in hopes that the weather will begin to be more spring-like here in upstate NY. We manufactured the glulam, columns, rafters, and unique structure for...
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Unalam Impacts Art World
Martin Puryear | New sculpture for the 2019 U.S. Pavilion, in-process 2019 | Photo credit: Yasunori MatsuiFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT:Zoë O. van der Meulen, Executive Vice PresidentUnalamPhone:...
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Over the past weeks, we've shared a lot of great articles and coverage of the exhibition, Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà at La Biennale Arte in Venice, Italy. We provided glulam timber and connections...
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Glulam Church With Tudor Arches
Here's a church that we manufactured glulam for in 2015. The structure features Tudor arches that connect in the center to make an octagon.The customer added pitched and tapered beams in one bay of the...
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Custom Glulam Decking for Music Center Recital Hall
The Recital Hall at Music Center at Indian Hill in Groton, MA has some complicated glulam details that the audience probably won't notice.To ensure great acoustics for performances, the roof is curved...
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