Timber Skyscrapers Aren’t Fantasy—Here’s The Research That Proves It
https://oregonclt.com/timber-skyscrapers-arent-fan... [Tall Buildings] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
Diana Budds
For years, architects have flirted with the idea of tall buildings made from mass timber, an engineered wood product that some argue is more sustainable than resource-intensive, nonrenewable steel. “Every design firm out there is trying to find more sustainable ways to build—it’s a good business practice,” says Benton Johnson, a structural engineer at SOM. Johnson has been working with Oregon State University to develop and test these new mass-timber structural systems, hoping that his research...

Cross Laminated Timber Can Reduce the Carbon Footprint of New Buildings
https://climatetrust.org/cross-laminated-timber-ca... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page] 2018
Julius Pasay
While forests are excellent carbon sinks, timber production and carbon sequestration are not incompatible. In fact, replacing carbon emitting materials with sustainably produced wood products in architectural applications can help move society towards a low carbon future. Specifically, cross laminated timber (CLT) has the potential to substantially reduce the carbon footprint of new buildings by replacing structural concrete....

Product-promoting legislation fails in Maryland
http://www.awc.org/news/2017/04/11/product-promoti... [Standards/Building code] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
American Wood Council
The Maryland State Legislature has adjourned for the year without taking action on House Bill 1311 or Senate Bill 722, which intended to prohibit multifamily dwellings above three stories from being constructed using wood-frame construction. American Wood Council (AWC) Northeast Regional Manager Matt Hunter, BCO, along with numerous representatives from building owners, architecture, development, and engineering, testified in opposition of both bills. AWC President & CEO Robert Glowinski issued ...

Carbon Collectors in the Sky
http://archpaper.com/archives/tag/carbon... [General Information] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2014
Henry Melcher
As glass and steel towers continue to rise, wood skyscrapers are likely to start sprouting alongside them. Multi-story and high-rise wood buildings are already planned or rising in Europe and Canada. He announced that the USDA is entering into a partnership with WoodWorks—an organization that provides support to the wood building industry—to educate architects and engineers on the potential of using wood as material. The department will also invest $1 million into a prize competition for develo...

How is MEP accommodated in exposed mass timber buildings-e.g., CLT and NLT wall
http://www.woodworks.org/experttip/mep-accommodate... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article]
WoodWorks
Mass timber panel products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber (NLT) and dowel-laminated timber (DLT) are used in many applications in multi-family and commercial construction—e.g., floors, roofs, shaft walls, bearing walls and partition walls. In many instances, the panels are left exposed on one side to take advantage of the aesthetic appeal of the timber. For these buildings, accommodation of mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) services is an important design con...

York Region and DIALOG unveil Ontarios first Living Building Challenge facility
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/yor... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
Elsa Lam
The Regional Municipality of York has officially unveiled its new Bill Fisch Forest Stewardship and Education Centre, a building designed by DIALOG that is an integral part of one of the most successful forest generation projects in the world and helps the community learn about the importance of this natural resource. To achieve the forestry centre design, DIALOG compiled a unique, interdisciplinary team that not only included architects, engineers and interior designers but also forest educatio...

Is North America Ready for Wood High-Rises?
http://www.structuremag.org/wp-content/uploads/C-G... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2012
Lisa Podesto
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A case study of a twelve-storey residential timber building
http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fullte... [Tall Buildings] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2015
Julia Folkesson, Sandra Watkinson
There are a number of advantages of timber compared to the two other major building materials steel and concrete. Timber is the only renewable building material used in a larger scale and timber has a high strength to weight ratio which are an advantage regarding foundation properties, production and assembly. A disadvantage of a lightweight structure is the sensitivity to horizontal loads and discomfort due to wind induced vibration needs to be considered....

Dynamic response of timber floors - criteria, performance and design for acceptability
http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fullte... [Vibration/Acoustic Performance] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2015
Jakob Brandin, Andreas Oscarsson
Traditionally, timber has been one of the leading building materials for single-family houses in Sweden. Today the use of timber in multi-family houses is increasing and there is a need to develop better performing timber floors in order to increase the comfort of the residents. The purpose of this project is to design and evaluate promising concepts for a timber floor structure that are well performing with regard to the vibration response. In the first part new design criteria, based on resear...

Green Verification Report
https://www.nordic.ca/data/files/datasheet/file/AP... [Commercial/Company Information] [Brochure/Product Sheet] 2018
APA
Products: Nordic X-Lam, Nordic Structures...

2015 in Canadian architecture
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/201... [General Information] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Elsa Lam
As 2015 draws to a close, we offer you this round-up of the stories that topped our headlines. On behalf of the staff, correspondents and contributors at Canadian Architect, we wish you a happy holiday and all the best with your projects in 2016....

How mass timber could transform our cities (really)
https://archpaper.com/tag/le-corbusier... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
ArchPaper
This is a preview of our special November timber issue. Mass timber is having its Maison Dom-Ino moment. At the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, a curious structure sat on the grass near the international pavilion in the Giardini. It was an engineered timber version of Le Corbusier’s Maison Dom-Ino, the seminal, prototypical reinforced concrete project, which was celebrating its 100th birthday. As a manifesto of sorts for modernism, the original Maison Dom-
Ino sent shockwaves through the 
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Canadian Wood Products Industry Supportive of Climate Change Considerations as p
http://cwc.ca/canadian-wood-products-industry-supp... [Other] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
Natalie Tarini
The Canadian Wood Council (CWC) applauds yesterday’s announcement by the Ministry of Infrastructure regarding a long-term infrastructure plan, focused on building Ontario up, that includes climate change considerations. This announcement aligns with the forest product sector’s ’30 by 30’ climate challenge – a commitment from the sector to help Canada remove 30 megatonnes (MT) of CO by the year 2030. The climate challenge, launched last year, symbolizes the Canadian wood products sector’s ongoing...

CLT Archives - Construction Specifier
https://www.constructionspecifier.com/tag/clt... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article]

Tag Archives: CLT After a previous round of testing, WoodWorks, in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Lab and Softwood Lumber Board, conducted a second series of blast tests on two-story, single-bay CLT structures. + Read More ...

4 things to know about Mass Timber
https://www.thinkwood.com/news/4-things-to-know-ab... [General Information] [Web Page] 2018
Think Wood
Fire resistance, structural integrity and environmental attributes make new tall wood buildings among the most innovative structures in the world....

Wood Construction Goes Beyond Its Traditional Roots
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/highlights/high... [General Information] [Others] 2013
David Kretschmann, Ted Bilek, Douglas Rammer, Samuel Glass
Developed for building professionals, the U.S. edition of the Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) handbook provides technical information for the design, construction, and implementation of CLT systems and illustrates applications adapted to current codes and standards. FPL researchers contributed to the publication in multiple areas of expertise, including manufacturing and standardization; economics and assessment of market opportunities; structural design concerning seismic performance and connectio...

Benefits of Building with Cross Laminated Timber
http://texascontractor.acppubs.com/trends/benefits... [General Information] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
Casey Malmquist
As more customers include sustainability as a building specification, many construction professionals have come to terms with the fact that measuring environmental impact of a building project is more pro forma and less of a special request. In order to more efficiently deliver a project without creating additional work of procuring proof of sustainability, many professionals are turning to sustainable building systems, such as cross laminated timber and glue laminated beams and columns, or mass...

Life Cycle Assessment at UBC
http://www.naturallywood.com/lexicon/4... [Environmental Performance] [Report] 2013
naturally: wood
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is applying a sustainability “gradient” framework where each new capital project is intended to exceed the performance of the previous ones, continually raising the level of overall sustainability performance. In recent years, life cycle assessment (LCA) and a distinct but related methodology, life cycle costing (LCC), have emerged as key decision-making and enabling tools in the design and construction of sustainable projects at UBC....

Timber Tower Research Project
http://www.structuremag.org/?p=1676... [Tall Buildings] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2014
Benton Johnson, David Horos, William F. Baker
The Timber Tower Research Project by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM) was publically released in June of 2013, and is available for download at SOM’s website. The goal of the research project was to develop a structural system for tall buildings that uses mass timber as the main structural material and minimizes the embodied carbon footprint of the building. The structural system research was applied to a prototypical building based on an existing concrete benchmark for comparison. The conc...

Bonding quality of industrially produced cross-laminated timber (CLT) as determined in delamination tests
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... [Bonding/Adhesives] [Journal Article] 2017
Markus Knorz, Stefan Torno, Jan-Willem van de Kuilen
The resistance to delamination of cross-laminated timber (CLT) made from spruce has been investigated. The main goal was to examine if delamination results are influenced by the shape of test specimens as both square and round specimens may be evaluated according to the CLT standard EN 16351. Furthermore, the influence of the production parameters number of layers, layer thickness and bonding pressure on delamination behavior were investigated. The results show that specimen shape and number of ...