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Solving our customers’ problems

Solving our customers’ problems

Three Elements Timberworks was started in 1999 as a timber frame company, and although our bread and butter is still timber frames and timber trusses, we have found over the years that our real product is providing solutions. For example, when I first started the...

Jackson Design Build

Jackson Design Build

This is a project we did with Jackson Design Build. This was our first project working together and I really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to more projects in the future. Most of our work is typically in the mountain resort towns. This one was in the front range....

Dogmatic

Dogmatic

  I feel like I have been using the word “dogmatic” a lot recently. I am not sure that I am using it correctly, but it doesn’t seem to bother me so I keep using it. Here is one definition that I found: dogmatic To be dogmatic is to follow a set of rules no matter...

White Oak Trusses

I traveled to Durango, CO, in the Spring of 2015 and stopped by a job that we had worked on in 2002.  It was a custom home, and the owner was adamant that he wanted white oak trusses. White oak is not a material that is used very often in Colorado. It comes from a...

Commercial job in North East Denver

We worked with Maxwell Construction on a commercial job in North East Denver. We provided the wood beams, the steel fasteners and some of the steel weldments that connected our wood details. The use of 3d CAD software and CNC machinery allowed us to deliver everything...

Glu-Lam Timber Frame

Glu-Lam Timber Frame

I stopped by a job-site last November and took some photos of a project that we worked on last year. Many people cringe when I suggest using glu-lams but I think these look great. They are dry and stable. They are strong and we can get them in long lengths. What do...

Reclaimed white oak table

It was a year ago we built two tables out of reclaimed white oak for Troy Domier - Builder. It was a project he was working on in California.  He provided the material, leading him to start a new company called Reclaimed West.  Here is a slideshow of the tables before...

Timber Frame job in Windsor

I stopped by a job the other day that we worked on last year. They are just wrapping up some last minute details and I snapped a few photos while I was there. Here is the welder installing the steel cross members for the girder truss Here is a view from the other side...

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