The Ark Encounter
Williamstown, KY – Completed March 2016
Rocky Mountain Joinery designed and fabricated a life-size recreation of Noah’s Ark as part of The Creation Museum project. The Ark Encounter is one of the largest timber frame structures in the world. Fabrication took a total 14 months, and was completed in March 2016.
- Length: 549’8” (167.54 meter)
- Width: 86’5’’ (26.34 meter)
- Height: 94’10” (28.91 meter)
- Total board feet of timber: 1,259,298 (2971.61m³)
- Number of heavy timbers fabricated: 5435
- Different timber parts: 1,826
- Number of trees fabricated: 122
- Largest Diameter size tree: 58” (1.47 meter)
- Linear feet of timber used: 78,750 (24003 meter)
- Surface are of timber: 325,419 sqf. (30232.41 m²)
- Weight of timber used in lbs: 4,155,683 (2077.84 tons)
- Machine hours: ≈ 2800
- Largest square timber size: 20”x20” (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
- Longest timber length: 49’8” (15.14 meter)
- Number of steel plates: 3146
- Number of drillings: 67467
- Housings, slots and notches: 11245
- Number of timber trucks: 180
