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Building Systems
http://www.woodworks.org/design-and-tools/building... [General Information] [Web Page] 2018 Wood Works Mass timber construction uses large prefabricated wood members such as cross laminated timber (CLT), laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and laminated strand lumber (LSL) for wall, floor and roof construction. Glulam can also be used in beam and column applications. These products, combined with a heightened awareness of wood’s carbon benefits, have focused attention on the possibility of “tall wood” buildings, either made entirely from wood products or a combination of wood and other materials. Mass ... |
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Project Assistance
http://www.structuremag.org?bsa_pro_id=71&bsa_pro_... [Other] [Web Page] WoodWorks WoodWorks provides free one-on-one project assistance related to the code-compliant design, engineering and construction of non-residential and multi-family wood buildings. ... |
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Aesthetics
http://www.wbdg.org/design-objectives/aesthetics... [General Information] [Web Page] 2016 WBDG Aesthetics Subcommittee The broad obligations and opportunities of architecture were summarized by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in the prescription that buildings should provide Commodity, Firmness and Delight. When the forms of architecture were limited by materials and construction methods, aesthetic principles were narrowly defined by the successors to Vitruvius. Modern architecture proposed a break with stylistic traditions, and invented what have become new ones—some derived from precedent movements like ... |
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New Case Study: Wood Innovation & Design Centre
https://www.naturallywood.com/resources/news/new-c... [Case Study/Projects] [Report] 2015 naturally: wood The Wood Innovation Design Centre,located prominently in downtown Prince Georgein north-central British Columbia, and completedin October 2014, is a precedent-setting building. At 51,882 ft2(4,820 m2), the Centre is six floors,97-ft-high (29.5 meters). Representing a milestonein mass timber construction, the Wood Innovation Design Centre is one of the tallest modern woodbuildings, and the first of its kind, in North America.... |
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Reclaiming new urban construction spaces with wood
http://buildingandliving.storaenso.com/News-Site/n... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017 Stora Enso In Munich, new urban construction solution took shape with light-weight wooden solution built with CLT by Stora Enso.... |
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Innovative bio-composite sandwich element as floor system for multi-storey timber buildings A structural analysis and optimization of the design
http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fullte... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2017 Kajsa Fröjd, Andreas Hellström A new type of timber floor, designed as a sandwich floor with a corrugated core has during the past years been under development at Chalmers University of Technology and this thesis is a continuation of the previous work. The scope is to reduce the height of apartment dividing floors in multi-storey buildings, to create less space consuming structures. This is of great importance to achieve the limitations in terms of total height in multi-storey timber buildings. If this could be achieved, the ... |
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The time is now for CLT in Australia: developments, barriers and our first CLT h
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/features/p... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016 Nathan Johnson We have it on good authority that cross-laminated timber (CLT) will be a major player in sustainable mid-rise building construction in the future. CLT is used around the world as an alternative to concrete and steel for all or part of a building’s construction and we’ve seen it used in projects up to 10-storeys in height. But while the environmental performance and structural strength of CLT has been well known in Australia for years now, its uptake as a viable alternative to concrete and steel ... |
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Cross Laminated Timber in the United States: Past, Present, and Future
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/sp... [General Information] [Presentation] 2015 Doug Rammer Cross- laminated timber (CLT) is making inroads into the United States building construction market, but research and design needs still limit the expanded use. CLT use in the United States began with the construction of the Gastonia Bell tower in 2010. This effort was quickly followed up with the development and adoption of ANSI/APA PG 320 in 2012 and the publishing of the U.S. CLT Handbook in 2013. This talk will briefly discuss the past efforts, along with the more recent developments of incl... |
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Summary of the fire protection foundation report - fire safety challenges of tal
https://firesciencereviews.springeropen.com/articl... [Fire Performance] [Journal Article] 2014 David Barber, Robert Gerard Buildings constructed from engineered timber are becoming more prevalent globally as building designers, owners and architects realize the sustainability opportunities with timber construction and the overall aesthetic of a completed timber building. As timber buildings are planned to be taller than many model codes permit, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Fire Protection Foundation commissioned research entitled “Fire Safety Challenges of Tall Wood Buildings”, with the aim of und... |
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Origine Tower: When wood withstands a trial by fire
http://cwc.ca/category/whats-new/page/2... [Fire Performance] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017 Michele Laferriere After being attacked by flames for two hours, steel girders soften and stretch like gum. When subjected to the same test, the solid wood panels used to build the structure of the Origine tower in the eco-district of Pointe-aux-Lièvres (Québec) withstood the blaze for four hours.... |
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Blast Test Shows CLT Can Take the Heat
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?tag=woodworks... [Fire Performance] [Web Page] 2016 Rebecca Wallace Here at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), we sometimes get a little destructive. We bend and break wood samples of all sizes, and we even shoot lumber out of a cannon at 100 miles per hour. But explosions? That’s a bit out of our wheelhouse. Not that wood can’t handle it. Particularly when it’s used in engineered products like cross-laminated timber (CLT), which FPL researchers have studied from many angles, including fire performance, use in earthquake-prone regions, and the effects of mois... |
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New Videos of Blast Tests Available
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?tag=blast-test... [Fire Performance] [Web Page] 2018 Rebecca Wallace The updated version was recently featured on the USDA and Forest Service blogs:At the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), researchers sometimes get a little destructive. They bend and break wood samples of all sizes, and even shoot lumber out of a cannon at 100 miles per hour. Not that wood can’t handle it. Particularly when it’s used in engineered products like cross-laminated timber, or CLT, which FPL researchers have studied from many angles, including fire performance, u... |
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Component Catalogue for Cross Laminated Timber Structures
http://www.klh.at/en/download/public/Kreuzlagenhol... [Connectors] [Brochure/Product Sheet] 2012 KLH Massivholz GmbH The suggested constructional designs with KLH solid wood panels show application details in a systematic and self-explanatory form.Users and planners will be able to easily derive project-specific details with reference to the basic depictions. The suggested detailed solutions merely represent recommendations given by the manufacturer... |
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Component Catalogue for Multi-Storey Residential Buildings
http://www.klh.at/en/download/public/Kreuzlagenhol... [General Information] [Brochure/Product Sheet] 2012 KLH Massivholz GmbH Numerous residential building projects have already been built successfully with KLH solid wood panels – from detached houses to multi-storey blocks of flats and even the currently highest solid wood building in the world with 8 KLH storeys, located in London. Besides the static aspects and requirements of constructional physics, the main focus in residential building is on noise protection. Noise protection requirements vary from one building project to another. Detached houses usually do not h... |
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Mass Timber Construction in Utah: Research, Practice and Futures
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/sp... [Markets] [Presentation] 2015 Ben Hagenhoffer-Daniel This presentation is an overview of mass timber research, development and commercial work, using beetle killed pine from the intermountain forests. This work is performed by an industry/university partnership between the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, and Euclid Timber LLC, a timber fabricator and general contractor in Heber, Utah. ... |
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Continent’s Tallest Wood Building Getting off the Ground
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?p=1179... [Tall Buildings] [Web Page] 2013 Doug Clawson At the Forest Products Laboratory we will tell you there are all sorts of advantages to “going green” and using wood to construct buildings. Thanks to Michael Green, and the company that bears his name, Michael Green Architecture (MGA), this is beginning to happen in a very big way. Work has started on what will be North America’s tallest wood building. The Wood Innovation and Design Centre (WIDC) will be located in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. The six-story, 90-foot structure (pict... |
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Fire testing completed on full-scale mass timber building
http://awc.org/news/2017/07/13/fire-testing-comple... [Fire Performance] [Web Page] 2017 American Wood Council Five full-scale mass timber fire tests in a multi-story apartment building have been completed with promising results. The International Code Council Ad-hoc Committee on Tall Wood Buildings provided the five fire scenarios that were tested in each of the two one-bedroom apartments constructed using mass timber. “The results of these fire tests will continue to be studied and will help inform code change recommendations from the Ad-hoc Committee later this year,” said Stephen J. DiGiovanni, P.E.,... |
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Solid Research on Shaky Science: Building with Wood in Earthquake-Prone Regions
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?p=24929... [Seismic Performance] [Web Page] 2015 Tom Owens From relatively stable ground in Madison, Wisconsin, researchers at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) are searching for better ways to build more resilient, taller, safer, and cost effective wooden structures for use in earthquake-prone areas of the nation. For the wood building community, the most viable tall building construction solution incorporates the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT). CLT has already established itself as an important building material in Europe, but is relatively n... |
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Wood Design Webinars
http://www.woodworks.org/education/online-seminars... [General Information] [Web Page] WoodWorks ... |
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Updates and Results from NEES-CLT Planning Project
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/sp... [General Information] [Presentation] 2015 Shilling Pei As urban densification occurs in regions of high seismicity, there is a demand for tall buildings that are seismically resilient, economically viable, and have less negative environmental impact. In urban regions on the west coast of the U.S., specifically the Pacific Northwest, there is significant interest in utilizing cross laminated timber (CLT) in 8- to 20-story residential and commercial buildings that are locally sourced, sustainable, and economically competitive building material. ... |
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