Our largest project to date! We replaced the entire marina at this Hong Kong yacht club with approximately 2,500 cubic meters of oversized custom Alaskan Yellow Cedar glulam. All 60+ truckloads were manufactured here in Oregon and delivered on break bulk shipments—halfway around the world! A great project that showcases what is possible with engineered wood.
The Gap Young Community Center in Korea. Our beams comprised the main frame of this beautiful green structure. Walsh Industries provided all glulam, steel connectors and fasteners as well as the CNC precut of all members. Before we shipped this project halfway around the world, all joints were test fit at the pre-cut plant; ensuring a smooth erection process. To pull this project off, we had to coordinate engineering, fabrication, manufacturing and logistics. Different languages, cultures and computers--but see below for the great results.
This is a recent article in the Japan Lumber News-- not a piece on the lumber market or an article on our industry. Rather, a nice story on how I took my two daughters Montana (12) and Angelina (9) to Japan this past spring break! During our one week long tour of the country, we stopped in front of the Kanazawa East Gate-- a project where we supplied 500 cubic meters of Douglas Fir lamina back in 2007.
This recent project is in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. We installed a small structure with our glulam at the Yas Marina--home of the Formula 1 circuit raceway. This is a high profile project where we were able to get our made-in Oregon products installed in a world class facility half way around the world. Our agent Sam in Dubai made this happen--a great project for our beams!
As part of our commitment to be stewards of the land, Walsh Industries is proud to announce the purchase of 75 acres of timberland in Yamhill County, Oregon. We will sustainably manage this property and are excited to incorporate a “working forest” into our business model. As part of our Forestry Plan, we will add a small vineyard and company retreat cabin, to promote and demonstrate our Sustainability Initiative.
The vineyards will go on the far left section, sloping to the south. The company retreat cabin will overlook the vines near the curved road.
2012年8月に購入した弊社の植林地。
ポートランドから西に50キロ地点にあり、広さは30万平方メートル。樹齢15年を超える米松2万5千本が植林してあります。
Meiji University, a major Ivy League college of Japan recently added a new campus and extension an hour from Tokyo. This is the new home of the Meiji University Agricultural Department. We provided glulams for this project and worked closely with our Japanese partners to make sure we kept this major endeavor under budget and on time. The results were quite amazing. The building was ready for the new school year that began on April 1, 2012. Our Western beams made this structure quite an amazing showcase for American Doug fir glulam.
Eight massive Douglas Fir glulams, form this pavillion structure near Shanghai. The center steel ring was designed in Japan and fabricated in China. Almost two years ago, we began coordinating the design, manufacturing and steel connections necessary for this structure. The glulams came out of our Eugene plant and were shipped to Japan. There, they were fabricated and precut; ready to assemble. Our partner in China produced the steel plates and giant steel ring assembly. In the end, it was three companies from three countries--working together and driven to deliver excellent results.
Postcard from Mumbai. Our first photo of our first project in India. In the city of Mumbai, Walsh Industries has supplied our glulam frame, dimension lumber, OSB panels, trusses and hardware. We also sent two carpenters from the States to supervise the construction. This is the first of two large clubhouse projects and the start (hopefully!) of a lot of wood business in this booming Indian economy.
While this wasn’t a big project for us, this one was fun. My friend Hank owns a bar in Canby, Oregon and wanted to replace its half century old counter top. He thought a big glulam would do the trick. Well, as you can see, we sent him a massive Douglas Fir glulam and his carpenter Gordon trimmed it to fit. What a better advertisement for the diversity and beauty of our product! The patron’s of Mike’s Place in Canby are sure to be impressed when the doors open tomorrow and the new bar welcomes them in.
Sometimes shipping our products around the world is a pretty routine endeavor. This recent project was not the case! We manufactured these 5 foot deep, 60’ long Alaskan Yellow Cedar glulam for a dock project in Hong Kong. At 60 feet, an ocean container was not an option. The beams finished in Eugene, left for Texas where they caught a break-bulk vessel. 65 days later, the beams arrived in HK, safe and sound without a scratch. To get to the final stop, we hired a small derrick and floated the beams the last 1/4 mile across Hong Kong Harbor. The photos below were taken as the beams arrived at HK main port; unloaded and then floated to their final destination. This project was a real challenge but we were quite pleased to hear that things went so smoothly.
The other day, an issue of the Gulf News ran an article entitled, “Why Not Wood”. A great read and a nice plug for Walsh Industries! Download the article here. Gulfnews Walsh IND.pdf
Cool pics from our Japanese customer. Sometimes our glulams, made in our Eugene plant, aren’t holding up the roof or spanning a large gymnasium. Sometimes, they make a simple staircase a beautiful, architectural statement. We think this use of glulam is original and quite impressive.
I just returned from Taipei--took a couple more pics of this beautiful structure. The building is still under construction and consists of a huge quantity of Douglas Fir glulam that we pressure treated before shipping. The beams are suspended on a grouping of steel columns--the order and precision of the glulam intersect and contrast with the random array of support columns. A very cool effect. The building will house a government research center in the town of Chiyayi. Note the solar panels above the glulam grid. We also saw vertical surfaces prepped with vine starts that will make this a truly green building.
When I saw the drawings for this project, I wasn’t sure what I was looking at! The customer was asking us to manufacture a very striking artistic sculpture out of Douglas Fir glulams. The objects can be referred to as an “Unearthed Korean Burial Urns”. This is now finished and installed in South Korea. About the production. Our mill here in the US was not able to make these radically curved members, so we asked our partner in Japan to help out. Not only were they able to manufacture, fabricate and deliver these beams to Korea, but we pressure treated each lamination BEFORE gluing, because the finished member would not fit into the treating tank. Once again, Walsh Industries was able to deliver a unique project using its network of worldwide partners. We think this structure is just downright amazing and shows the endless possibilities of wood construction. This project was completed earlier this summer.
We work with our good friends at Bojarsky Inc. to fabricate and machine our glulams and timbers--we like their attention to detail and commitment to quality. Time and time again, they have delivered our beams pre-fabricated, ready to install. I spent the morning there and got to see their machines in action. I snapped this photo with my iPhone--the mortise and tenon joinery for this custom home project was just downright COOL!
Solid Doug Fir beams, cut shaped and ready for assembly. Bojarsky fab shop floor.
Just returned from a trip to China. It is so nice to see our made in Oregon glulams being used in various projects. Below is a Resource Center--pictured is the main entrance. Inside, there is substantial exposed glulam--all from our Eugene plant. We are excited about China’s newborn interest in heavy timber structures--we think that the tag “Made in USA” will heard more and more in this exciting new market.
We started selling our Super Wide Glulam in Japan this past year. The Japan Lumber Journal was nice enough to write a front page story about this new product.
Download the article below. Please note that the file is in Japanese.
For an english translation, call the sales office.
Thanks!
Thanks to our partner in Korea, Ahn & Associates, we received a nice write-up in the Korean Lumber News. The article talks about our recent partnership with Western Structures and about our successes in that market. This article was published in February this year, just as we attended the KY Housing Fair in Seoul.
OK... its not a mega-project that was shipped abroad in a dozen containers, but still, we were excited to see these photos of a recent Korean project.
Our Douglas fir glulams were used in several entry locations of this exclusive residential development near central Seoul. The beams were pressure treated for exterior use and the beautiful wood works nicely with the overall theme of the project. Big or small--we can deliver glulams to your jobsite all over the world.
As part of our commitment to the environment we recently began the certification process for the FSC Chain of Custody Certification.
Effective 1/20/2010, we are an FSC Certified supplier and will be offering both FSC Certified lumber and glulam beams. For more about FSC go to www.fsc.org.
