Skip to main content
Home
  • Timber Engineering Services
    • Design
    • Engineering
    • 3D Modeling
    • Sustainable Building Systems
    • Exotic Building Systems
    • Inspection & Rehab
  • Portfolio
  • About
    • Overview
    • History
    • The Name
    • Team
    • Friends & Partners
  • Careers
  • Contact

Portfolio

Commercial
Residential
Testing
Trusses
Outdoor Spaces
Fun Connections
Raisings
Barns
Restoration
Bridges
Epoxy into end-grain
Epoxy into end grain

Shear plug failure and a ductile yielding/failure of all-thread rods into the end of a Douglas fir glulam.  For this large commercial project, we needed to develop and conduct a testing program for steel rods epoxied into end-grain.  West System 610 provided the results we were looking for.

catspaw
Writers Theatre
Studio Gang w/ Trillium Dell

One of the most unique connections we've done - a purely mechanical connection of a undercut dovetail for slender vertical tension members. 

writers
Writers Theatre
Studio Gang w/ Trillium Dell

Full scale testing of a segment of a much larger hanging porch for a project in northern IL.

How We Work

Leading authorities on pegged mortise and tenon connections and mechanically laminated beams, our team has been responsible for some of the timber frame community’s most impressive projects, while also advancing the science and capabilities of heavy timbers.

See our work

Where We Work

US licenses:
AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, USVI, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY

Canadian licenses:
AB, BC, ON, SK, AND YT

Contact Us

Fire Tower Client Map
© Copyright 2025 Fire Tower Engineered Timber | All Rights Reserved | Website by Monte | Log In