Who are we
and how are we organized.......
P.T. Bali Woodworld
is the leading partner in a joint venture comprising
four companies. The joint venture was established in the year 2000
together with BWTC (Bali World Trading Co.), Bali Woodworks and
Indo Prefab (*) Since its start the joint venture has grown
rapidly to become one of the foremost manufacturers in Bali of
Prefabricated Wooden Houses, Prefab custom made Houses and Villas,
Bungalows and Gazebos. We have a staff of architects, professional
engineers and site supervisors to guarantee that our product has the
required structural integrity and remains of high end quality.
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What are we capable of.......
The Prefab Houses are either designed in Bali style or
may be designed following a client's concept (custom or tailor made).
We fabricate houses in the range from small huts, cottages, ECO style
houses to bungalows and villas
for the up-market. Gazebos are available
in many sizes.
P.T. Bali
Woodworld and its partners are bringing a new high end
quality to this class of residential construction. Each Bali House and
gazebo is solely made from termite resistant Tropical Hardwoods such
as Bangkirai and Merbau. We fabricate our Prefab Houses and Gazebos
like fine furniture without the use of one nail.
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Experience and market.......
Being the first in Bali introducing and producing fully
engineered Bali Timber Houses and Bali Gazebos following a unique
in-house developed prefab concept, based on 40-years of experience in
the prefab timber world we designed and exported our products to
Hawaii, the
Caribbean (US Virgin Islands, Barbados, Bahamas, St. Martin,
Sta. Lucia, Cayman islands), the Pacific
(Fiji islands, Tonga), South Africa, Panama,
Turkey, Greece......and the end is not in sight. New
developments in Honduras,
Colombia,
Australia, India.
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Quality and engineering.........
It is a misconception to believe that
a Prefabricated Wooden House is a simple structure comprising an integrated
system of wooden beams, trusses, sidings and floors connected to each
other with bolts and screws which does not require a structural
analysis. It is not only the beauty of the Wooden House
and the quality of the materials used but for a great deal the structural integrity that counts. In respect to
this we would like to alert our visitors that
any wooden prefab structure is extremely
sensitive for unbalance (in engineering terms:
stability). This is mainly caused by the hinged inter-connections (*). A wooden prefab house
may be strong enough to safely absorb vertical loads, but may easily collapse due
to its - often overlooked - hidden instability. Under
lateral loads such as high winds or an earthquake force any prefab
house may easily disintegrate when the horizontal stability is too low.
This is the professional engineering area where we have tens of years of
International experience and where we fully concentrate on for our
Prefab Homes so that you will feel safe when a storm passes or an
earthquake occurs.
Our designs are therefore based on the latest USA codes (IBC 2006)
and include standard wind loads or full hurricane and earthquake analyses where applicable.
Our advice: Before you buy a hardwood
home you should convince yourself of the technical capabilities of the
manufacturer. Our <technical info page>
may help you with this. You may create your own questionnaire from
the information provided on this page.
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(*) This is what Robert F.
Janssen [1] has to say:
"Any concrete or steel
structure can easily absorb bending moments due to the physical
characteristics of the material. Inter-connections are often
able to absorb flexional forces. This is hardly possible with
wood, in particular when wooden parts need to be connected. Bolt
holes in wood are always a bit larger than the bolt diameter
thus creating deformations and displacements in the joints.
Therefore a wood structure requires specific stability measures
to be included in the structure as to avoid spontaneous
horizontal movements caused by - even the slightest - wind
forces, let alone a hurricane force wind". |
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[1] Robert F. Janssen is a
senior structural engineer with a world wide track record of over 40 years of
International experience and is our advisor on structural
issues. |
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This house had low horizontal
stability
(Not one of our
projects.........) |
How to use this
web site.......
You may first visit our
products page, select a product from
the main menu and browse from there thru our site where you will find a
vast amount of technical information, pictures, plan and elevation
drawings, construction
detail photos and a daily updated price list, or go directly to the
Prefab Houses page and make your
choice out of the 50 models which we present.
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(*) P.T. Bali Woodworld, the leading
partner is responsible for the engineering and produces the
trusses for our prefab units. The sister company is Bali Woodworks
which merely
concentrates on the fabrication of gazebos and wooden cabinets , BWTC
(Bali World Trading Co) produces the doors and windows for our prefab
houses while Indo Prefab produces all what is not supplied by those
companies and pre-assembles the units.
