I beam wall construction

[Simplysimon]

could anyone who has had an i beam construction wall please give me a detail for the soleplate to wall plate. i'm trying to figure out the best method to construct the wall as a a unit rather than stickbuild. jji shows two thicknesses of solid timber, one soleplate and one wallplate, touchwood shows i beam as wall/soleplate with infills.

 

cheers

[MikeSharp01]

We have this and ours is 300mm FJI joist studs on top of two parallel sole plates of 75mm x 50 and 150 x 50 with 50mm x 75mm thick PU infill in the gap. Every so often the stud is fixed, via the web, to the concrete with a strong tie angle bracket in the PU trough which is fettled around the bracket. All on top of a DPC.

 

PS this is as our SE detailed.

Edited January 16, 2019 by MikeSharp01

[Gone West]

Our sole plate is a single 300mm Steico I-beam which has OSB3 web strengtheners bonded underneath at intervals where the plate is bolted to the slab. The 300mm Steico I-beam studs are nailed to the sole plate.

[Simplysimon]

thanks guys, were both these stick built or did the walls come in panels?

 

@MikeSharp01 any pics?

 

cheers

[Gone West]

11 hours ago, Simplysimon said:

thanks guys, were both these stick built or did the walls come in panels?

 

Mine is a portal frame and each individual part of the frame was made in the factory and fitted to the sole plate on site.

 

 

 

 

[Patrick]

On 16/01/2019 at 07:16, MikeSharp01 said:

We have this and ours is 300mm FJI joist studs on top of two parallel sole plates of 75mm x 50 and 150 x 50 with 50mm x 75mm thick PU infill in the gap. Every so often the stud is fixed, via the web, to the concrete with a strong tie angle bracket in the PU trough which is fettled around the bracket. All on top of a DPC.

 

PS this is as our SE detailed.

@MikeSharp01 would you happen to have any section drawings of this? Would be appreciated.

[bissoejosh]

Ours is similar to @MikeSharp01 with twin parallel sole plates made of 45x95mm timber with insulation in-between. Only difference is the sole plates are concrete screwed into the block work below with a closed cell foam gasket beneath the timber and DPC.

 

This was detailed by our frame engineer at my request as the original plan was a 300mmx45 glulam which seemed a fairly large cold bridge. 

Edited January 20, 2019 by bissoejosh

[davidc]

Has any one else used I joists for the top header plate in a I joist build ?  If possible I would like to forward my engineer some example drawings as I want to steer away from solid glulams.