CENTRE FOR BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Institute for Timber Engineering and

Wood Technology, TU Graz / Austria
Case study no. 10

Leonardo da Vinci project

no. CZ/06/B/F/PP-168007

WP6 – Case Studies

PC 3 – A set of case studies
General Information
 Type of building:
Laboratory (hall) and office building
 Structural System:
Suspended CLT-elements, ripped CLT-plates,
walls with boxed cross sections
 Owner:
Federal Building Agency (BIG), Vienna / Austria
 Location:
Graz / Austria
 Erection date:
1999 (begin) - 2001 (1st erection step finished)
 Architectural design:
Arch. Nussmüller / , Graz / Austria
Arch. Kampits & Gamerith, Graz / Austria
 Structural & constructional design, Building physics:
Institutes of the Faculty for Civil Engineering,
Graz University of Technology
 Manufacturer of timber structure:
Stingl GesmbH, Trofaiach / Austria
Plans (Erection step 1)
Plan
(with Laboratory hall
dimensions)

Offices
Cross section

Laboratory hall

Office
Walls

→ Boxed cross-section utilising cross-laminated

element (CLT) rigidly glued with glulam rips

Roof above laboratory hall

→ 5-layered CLT-plate (120 mm) suspended

by steel trestles (tubes) and
steel rods; span: 19,48 m
Roof above offices

→ 5-layered CLT-element screw-pressed glued

with glulam rips (GL32h, 140/280 mm, every
600 mm)
→ Width per element 2400 mm
→ Span: 14,0 m
Simple connection of the prefabricated
elements with steel angles at the bottom
and the first floor on the reinforced
concrete structure
Detail: Walls

Special fastener system (steel ring and

glued-in rods) at the longitudinal edges of
the prefabricated elements
Detail: Roof above laboratory hall

Steel trestles (tubes) for the

Steel part for load introduction suspending system of the CLT-
of steel rods into the CLT- plate elements

Detail of the steel trestles: drilled

Joint of the CLT- plate (necessary holes for the anchoring of the
due to limited production length) suspension rods
Detail: Roof above offices

Joint rips – wall: by means of

slotted- in steel plate with dowels

Bearing area of the

roof above offices:
bearing on
reinforced concrete
Joint deck (CLT) – wall: walls by means of
by means of bearing of on the slotted-in steel
CLT-element of the wall and plates and special
selftapping screws elastomeric layers
Assembling / Erection Offices

→ High level of pre-

fabrication for wall and
roof elements
→ Lifting by means of
auto-cranes
→ Short erection time
Assembling / Erection Lab Hall
Impressions
Impressions

Laboratory hall Office

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