Lecture Hall and Administration Building, Forestry Department, University of Applied Sciences in Weihenstephan
The truss structure was designed to be constructed by smaller carpentry firms. In the workshop, numerous identical timber bars were prefabricated, and two diagonal members were pre-connected. On the construction site, large sections (approximately 12 x 12 m) of the spatial framework, with a 4 cm camber, were pre-assembled on the building's concrete foundation slab. First, the diagonal members were fastened between the pre-drilled lower gusset plates using anchor nails. Then, both the top and bottom chords were bolted to the nodes with welded-on Geka dowels. The individual structural units, each the size of a lecture hall, were then lifted by a mobile crane until the columns were installed and braced.
