ProfessionalsA carpentry partner for your site
Alta Madeira works as a subcontractor for architects, builders and general contractors. A single point of contact, from calculation to installation, and schedules in writing before we start.
Architects
Design with the structure, not in spite of it.
- Early involvement: span, sections and joints are decided at sketch stage.
- Exposed roofs, long spans, timber floors: engineered solutions, not habits.
- Joint details and calculation notes supplied for your file.
- Industrial trusses to free the plan: no load-bearing wall, no post in the middle.
Builders and general contractors
A carpentry package that keeps the schedule.
- Structural carpentry subcontracting, supply and installation.
- Prefabricated in the workshop, erected in a few days on site.
- Itemised quote, committed schedule, one contact on site.
- Renovation of old roof structures: diagnosis, reinforcement or replacement.
- Supply of structural timber and wood-fibre insulation for your sites.
What you receive
Documents, not promises.
Every project comes with the documents a project manager expects from a structural package.
- Calculation noteDesign of members and joints to Eurocode 5.
- Working drawingsDimensioned carpentry drawings, piece marking, joint details.
- Itemised quoteSupply, fabrication, installation and options priced separately.
- ScheduleDesign, fabrication and installation dates, committed in writing.
- Timber and treatmentC24 softwood, treated against wood-boring insects and termites (use class 2).
- InsuranceInsurance in line with the rules in force in Portugal.
Process
Five steps, schedules in writing.
Indicative lead times, confirmed in writing for each project.
- 01
Enquiry
You send drawings and constraints. First feasibility answer and price range.
within a week - 02
Design and quote
Sizing, schematic drawings, itemised quote.
5 days · 2 weeks with a visit - 03
Fabrication
Cutting and assembly in the workshop, treated timber, marked pieces.
depends on the project - 04
Installation
Erection on site with a single contact, coordination with other trades.
1 to 3 days - 05
Handover
Handover visit, file delivered, follow-up after delivery.
Speciality
The industrial truss, for open plans.
Light trusses calculated piece by piece, with our supplier's software, and assembled in the workshop. They span long distances without intermediate support, on pitched or flat roofs, and go up in a few days. Common in France, still rare in Portugal.
Figures given by the carpenter; every project is calculated.
Technical file
Request the technical file
Every fabrication comes with its technical file and its installation file. Request here the Alta Madeira presentation to attach to your tenders.
- Presentation of Alta Madeira and Joseph Taborda's background
- Services, fabrication capacity and service area
- Sample calculation note and working drawing
- References of projects built in France
- Terms of collaboration and contacts