INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL CLT SYSTEM IN PROJECTING AND BUILDING OF STUDENT HOUSES

Abstract

Abstract:The University campuses represent a dominant type of organization of the living activities of students. Buildings and common features, usually,  in classical manner are built.This means that most of the student living complex was built in the massive and skeletal structural systems of concrete and steel.  This paper deal with the possibilities, advantages and examples of innovative structural system, named CLT or XLAM system.The XLAM system was developed in Germany around 12 years ago and it’s rapidly spreading in most European countries such as Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Nordic Countries. It is a European innovative timber based material in which timber boards, made of home-grown timber species are assembled in layers and glued together crosswise in order to form massive timber wall and floor panels characterized by significant mechanical properties. Such type of structural system can serve as models for construction of residential, commercial and student  facilities in Serbia.