XLam New Zealand Limited is the first company in New Zealand to manufacture Cross Laminated Timber (CLT); structural timber panels used for roof, floor and wall diaphragms in commercial and residential buildings. Commissioning of the factory began in April 2012, but it is not yet fully complete. The panels are currently being produced discretely rather than in a production line, and some plant is yet to be installed.
It is important that procedures and control documents are implemented from the beginning in a new factory. This Project provides these, as well as recommendations to improve the long term production of CLT in New Zealand by developing:
1. A Quality Assurance (QA) Framework for the CLT manufacturing process.
2. A CLT Design Guide to aid engineers and architects in structural design using CLT.
3. A Health and Safety Framework to control hazards and develop a culture of health and safety within the factory.
4. A 10 year financial forecast model to analyse possible future expansion options for XLam.
This Project has been prepared in partial fulfilment of the 2012 Master of Engineering Management (MEM) degree at the University of Canterbury – ENMG 606: Project.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/9122 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Leslie, Samuel Richard |
| Publisher | University of Canterbury. Engineering Management |
| Source Sets | University of Canterbury |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic thesis or dissertation, Text |
| Rights | Copyright Samuel Richard Leslie, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml |
| Relation | NZCU |
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