Description
Posi-Joist™ also known as Metal web joists, combine the light weight of timber with the strength of a steel web.
The Posi‐Joist™ gives building designers the freedom to have a variety of internal room layouts while allowing free and easy passage of services without the constraints of solid and other engineered timber.
Each Posi-Joist™ is individually designed for your project,
Features and Benefits
- Lightweight but strong.
- Allows greater span and distances than solid joists, giving greater design freedom.
- Suitable for both floor and roof usage.
- Open web design allows easy installation and access to services especially mechanical ventilation and heat recovery systems.
- Faster installation and cost savings in time and materials.
- Simple and safe to install.
- Range of depths available.
- Beams are dimensionally stable and cross grain shrinkage minimal.
- Easily handled due to light weight.
- Various end fixing details available.
- Wide flanges for fixing flooring and plasterboard. Min 72mm wide fixing surface make flooring easy, controls shrinkage and reduces return visits and remedial work.
- Suitable for use in ground floor applications.
- The industry’s first metal web joists system in the UK to obtain a robust detail for the resistance to the passage of sound.
- Manufactured from PEFC certified timber.
