Full shop assembly

Built and proven before it ever ships

Every structure we deliver is fully assembled and load-tested in our climate-controlled facilities, in the USA and Canada, before treatment or shipping, so it reaches your site standing, proven, and ready to install.

The shop assembly advantage

We don't find the problems on your site. We find them in ours

Most timber structures are assembled for the first time on site, where weather, fit-up surprises, and sequencing errors turn into delays and change orders. We do it differently. Every structure is built whole in our shop first, every connection made and checked, every member load-tested to the engineered standard.

Only after it’s proven do we apply treatment and ship it. When the structure arrives, erection is fast and predictable, because it has already stood once, under our roof, to ISO 9001-documented standards.

And when it ships, our own crews erect it, we self-perform installation rather than sending a kit for someone else to assemble. Inspection, engineering, fabrication, and install under one accountable roof.

We manufacture at our own ISO 9001-certified facilities in Jefferson, Oregon (USA) and Cranbrook, British Columbia and Hillsborough, New Brunswick (Canada), operating since 2015, producing advanced fibre-reinforced engineered wood products and pre-machined, pre-assembled bridges and buildings. Canadian projects are manufactured in Canada.

100%

Of every structure assembled and load-tested before it ships.

Climate-controlled

Controlled environments in the USA and Canada, not an exposed job site.

The shop sequence

Fabricate. Assemble. Load-test. Treat & ship

01

Fabricate

Every member is cut, shaped, and machined to engineered tolerances in the climate-controlled shop.

02

Assemble

The whole structure is erected in the shop, every connection made and verified before it comes apart for transport. Because we treat the structure while it’s assembled, we double-galvanize every metal fastener against corrosion.

03

Load-test

The assembled structure is tested to its engineered capacity and documented to ISO 9001 standards.

04

Treat & ship

Only once proven is the structure treated for its environment and shipped, ready for fast, predictable install.

Why it matters

What shop assembly removes from your project

Risk

Fit-up surprises and connection problems are found and solved in the shop, not discovered mid-erection over a creek or a road.

Schedule

On-site time shrinks to assembly of pre-proven components, weather windows and site access stop dictating your timeline.

Cost

Fewer change orders, less field rework, and a shorter site mobilisation keep the budget where it was quoted.

Global reach

The know-how travels

Everything we build is assembled and load-tested in our own facilities before it leaves, then shipped to projects wherever they stand, with reach across 55 countries and six continents.

Shop assembly is what makes distance manageable: the structure is proven standing before it travels, so what arrives on your site fits and installs.

Common questions

About shop assembly

Because the cheapest place to find a problem is in our shop, not on your site. Assembling the whole structure first means every connection is made and verified once, under controlled conditions, so on-site erection is fast, predictable, and free of fit-up surprises.

It removes the variables that blow up site budgets and schedules, weather, sequencing errors, and connection problems discovered mid-erection. Fewer change orders, less field rework, and a shorter on-site mobilisation keep the project on the number we quoted.

In our own climate-controlled, ISO 9001-certified facilities, Jefferson, Oregon in the USA, and Cranbrook, British Columbia and Hillsborough, New Brunswick in Canada. A controlled environment means consistent quality and accurate load testing, conditions you simply can’t guarantee on an exposed job site.

Yes. The assembled structure is load-tested to its engineered capacity and documented through our ISO 9001 process before treatment and shipping, so what arrives has already been proven sound.

We do. Structures are built and proven in Jefferson, then shipped to project sites worldwide, the Roger Bacon Bridge, for example, travelled from our Oregon shop to Nova Scotia in 25 loads. We’ve delivered structures to 55 countries across 6 continents.

See it standing before it reaches your site