Pacifico restaurant – Continuing the legacy – Ken McIntosh

Connections between glue-laminated timber floor beams and round timber glue-laminated columns required aninnovative approach. Substantial load transfer was required at these connections without reducing either column orbeam capacity. Strength reduction of the beams and columns by notching or rebating was avoided by the development ofcurved steel collars screw fixed to the timber columns. The curved steel collar contains a large integrated steel shearpin that engages with a bearing seat plate screw fixed to the beams. The connection was easily installed and appropriatefor both vertical and sloping timber columns. The curved brackets could be readily positioned on the columns to ensurethat the shear pin was at the correct elevation to receive the floor beams.