873 Route One
Woolwich, ME 04579


(207) 442-7938
info@shelterinstitute.com
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Post and Beam opens up the possibilities...and Shelter Institute offers some real advantages:

  • Our Engineers and CAD staff can create just about any style, shape and size structure
  • You can arrange windows and doors in flexible patterns because of the great on-center spacing of the timbers.
  • The pre-cut frame can be assembled and enclosed quickly on-site
  • The structure is easily superinsulated with stresskin panels
  • We deliver throughout New England and raise and enclose the frame with our own experienced timberframing crews.
  • Our radio-controlled cranes facilitate detailed construction on difficult house-sites.
  • We can install a long lasting metal roof in a variety of colors.
  • We can package a Post and Beam frame for you with all the components for a house and ship it to you to construct.We have shipped as far west as Colorado and as far south as the Caribbean island of Saba.
  • Large, open clear spans built of enormous timber trusses. One serves as an open barn dance hall and another as a quaker meeting house. A barn houses a 40 foot yacht.
  • Shelter Institute retail space illustrates many of the benefits of timber frame construction. A T-shaped 30'x72' and 30'x50' of douglas fir and pine. King-post trusses span the open classroom which enjoys radiant heat. Come for a visit, see for yourself.