Time to play - Name that construction technique...

[sirenwerks]

I came across this building while Google Maps surfing rail lines south of me while on lunch break. It's a seed supplier in Albany OR and I am really digging the simplicity and shape, and what looks like a covered siding entry on the backside. I have been noticing a lot of industrial buildings out here in the Pac NW using this type of siding, especially lumber mills. I have yet to actually stop and analyze a real example of this construction, but my curiosity has peaked with this building, which I have a hunch used to be part of a mill, now repurposed. 


Since this construction technique is not as popular back east, I'm not really familiar with it. Is it just plywood sheet installed like corrugated siding would be, lapped? What size sheets are normal for this application? Was this siding type used all sorts of industrial structures?

[sirenwerks]

Where are you my erudite friends?

[wazzou]

Usually 4x8 sheets, not lapped, just butt joined.  Sometimes 4x10 sheets may be used as well.
This construction method was common here due the proliferation of PNW Plywood mills and the swiftness in which a building of this size could be sheathed.

[C855B]

4x12 is also a spec size when transportation is less of an issue, as would (wood?) happen when you're closer to the mill. I think I see mostly 4x12 there.

[Spades]

What does the opposite end/roof look like? Did they truncate the building? New roofing and end wall.  The pallets and trailer look Ag. Is this a refrigerated building? The panels have an insulated look.

[Missaberoad]

For size reference those pallets would be 40" x 48".

[sirenwerks]

What does the opposite end/roof look like? Did they truncate the building? New roofing and end wall.  The pallets and trailer look Ag. Is this a refrigerated building? The panels have an insulated look.

The rest of the building looks like it has been re-sided with metal siding, and the lot-to-building size ratio doesn't present as if the building's been shortened. I think this end of the building is juts the one part not refinished. Take a look for yourself.


https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B036'25.0%22N+123%C2%B005'56.7%22W/@44.6069544,-123.0998976,202m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d44.6069526!4d-123.099075

[pdx1955]

I've sen a lot of agricultural buildings done that way - lots of fruit packing plants/warehouses for cherries and apples here in the Northwest.

[SandyEggoJake]

Not plywood on exterior, but some kind of foil covered insulated panel? Perhaps polyisocyanurate (aka polyiso) or EPS rigid foam panels?