Timberframe
Your Bensonwood frame is designed, crafted and raised by our highly trained and experienced professionals. Uniquely yours, each frame is created using traditional hand-craftsmanship, as well as the latest in computer-aided woodworking technology. The result is that your Bensonwood frame will have the highest level of fit tolerance and finish quality available anywhere.
Bensonwood Timberframe Advantages
- Over 35 years in business specializing in residential and commercial timber frame construction and off-site fabrication.
- Old-world craft pride; new world precision and efficiency
- Highest level of fit tolerance and finish quality available anywhere
- Over 300 years of in-house experience
- 3 craftsmen with 30+ years
- 5 craftsmen with 20+ years
- Several with 10+ years
- New and talented young craftsmen with 4+ years.
- Over 650 timber frame projects completed throughout North America and overseas.
- Hundreds of majestic homes and many commercial buildings
- High profile public timber frame projects
- Gates Reading Room: Denver Public Library
- Seiji Ozawa Hall: Tanglewood
- Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center, Mt. St. Helens
- Claybrook Lodge & The Timbers Restaurant: Sugarbush, VT
- University of Virginia: Jefferson Pavilion reconstruction
- Numerous lodges, golf clubhouses, marinas, etc
- Exceptional wood quality
- Used the same sawyers on both coasts since the beginning. Over time we have established Bensonwood “Good Wood” grade. It’s as much a part of our quality expectation as the precision of our fits.
- Forest salvage, sustainable harvesting, and recycled sources make our wood exceptionally green.
- Housed joinery is a company standard despite the extra work.
- Bensonwood's housed joinery minimizes twisting, provides a better support platform, and is more visually pleasing.
- CNC and hand craftsmanship combination: efficiency without compromise
- Automated equipment removes the bulk of the wood; good craftspeople step in where the machine accuracy isn’t sufficient.
- Timber frame team follows project from shop to site
- No lost information
- Bensonwood site presence brings quality continuity and raising efficiency
- In-house engineering
- A timber frame is also defined as an "engineered timber structure." Engineering is an inherent aspect of every timber frame, yet we remain the only timber frame company with a full-time engineering staff. The influence and ongoing contributions of our engineering team adds dramatically to the quality and integrity of our unique structures
- In-house architects
- Masters in the design of timber structures and timber spaces. They can design independently or in collaboration with outside architects. Where our engineers make our buildings strong; our architects make them beautiful and well integrated into the living spaces.
- Successful collaboration with numerous Architects, many who are nationally and internationally known, such as
- Capacity for large projects
- Large shop area and efficient, highly trained team
- Capacity for handling large timbers
- Lifting equipment and custom, specialized equipment for oversize and oddly shaped timbers
- Leaders in joinery development
- Spline joinery and keyed beams developed through Bensonwood projects, engineering and craftsmen
- Over 15 years experience working with local metal craftsman, Bob Taylor
- Exceptional metal connections
- Artistic exposed metal connectors
- Celebrated metal fasteners and features
- Over 15 years of developing 3D software:
- Effectively and quickly pre-builds frame in detail
- 3 books in print about timber framing, the first now 30+ years old and continues to sell well as the book that sparked the timber frame revival.
