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Finished curved members are shown ready for shipment. The Exchange is a 245,000- square-foot commercial center at Farmington, Conn., which is part of a "total living" community known as Talcott Village. De signed by Warren Callister and August Rath of Tiburon, Calif., the $9 million center is con structed almost entirely of wood, with laminated trusses as long as 75 feet. "We wanted to maintain the rustic atmosphere of Talcott Vil lage," said Don Wild, head of the structural department of James S. Minges & Associates, consulting engineers, "and wood was the logical choice." The job of providing laminated beams, columns and trusses to rigid specifications went to Unadilla Laminated Products (UnaLam), at Unadilla, N.Y., 200 miles from the construction site. At Una-Lam, Arkansas pine is kiln dried to 10 to 12 per cent mois ture content, converted into lam inated beams as thick as 13V2 inches for The Exchange, using Georgia-Pacific GP-117 Resi-Lam phenolic resorcinol glue fora last ing chemical weld. Well in excess of one-million board feet of laminated material and one-million board feet of decking materials will be in ser- Trusses are readied for delivery to The Ex change at Farmington, Conn. Reprinted from ADHESIVES AGE, December, 1972