UBC Wood Construction Guidelines
https://www.naturallywood.com/resources/ubc-wood-c... [Environmental Performance] [Report] 2017
naturally: wood
University of British Columbia (UBC) policies and guidelines have adopted stringent sustainability performance criteria that all building projects and development initiatives must comply with. UBC is developing a sustainability lens for new projects, which determines and evaluates the potential environmental, social and economic impacts of construction and building operations, including methods to measure long term progress. The University has determined (through studies such as lifecycle assess...

AWC: Senate Energy Bill step in the right direction for biomass
http://awc.org/news/2016/04/20/awc-senate-energy-b... [General Information] [Web Page] 2016
American Wood Council
American Wood Council (AWC) Vice President, Government Affairs Sarah Dodge has issued the following statement regarding today’s passage of the “Clean Distributed Energy Grid Integration Act” (S. 2012) in the U.S. Senate. The bill included an amendment led by Sen. Susan Collins (ME) which would require the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to jointly ensure that federal policy relating to forest bioenergy: (1) is consistent across a...

Exhibition at Chalmers: Timber - Raw and Refined
http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/ace/news/Pag... [General Information] [Web Page] 2017
Chalmers University of Technology
On Friday December 15, there is a vernissage for the exhibition Timber - Raw and Refined, where the master’s students from Chalmers exhibit full-scale prototypes of outdoor furniture and roof completely made of digitally fabricated timber. This fall semester, the Chalmers Architecture master studio Material & Detail has been investigating Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). The main focus has been the meeting between architecture, digital design and robotic manufacturing. The studio challenges studen...

Future of wood: Stronger than ever
http://www.masstimberconference.com/mass-timber-ne... [General Information] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2018
Gail Oberst
One the oldest building materials is put to new uses for construction....

Tall Wood Takes a Stand – Proven to be Safe and Cost Effective
https://de.slideshare.net/rethinkwood/tall-wood-ta... [Tall Buildings] [Presentation] 2014
Think Wood
The growing awareness of the environmental benefits of wood combined with advances in wood technology and manufacturing have aligned to make tall wood buildings not only possible but safe and cost effective. While the increasing number of code-approved, light-frame wood construction projects reaching five and even six stories has helped North American building professionals raise their comfort level with wood, a number of forward-looking architects, engineers, and developers are looking beyond s...

Fire tests on finger-jointed timber boards
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch:443/bitstr... [Fire Performance] [Report] 2014
Michael Klippel, Andrea Frangi
This testing report summarises the experimental investigations on finger-jointed timber specimens, glued with different types of adhesives, loaded in tension and exposed to standard ISO-fire. The tests were performed as part of the project entitled “Fire safety of bonded structural timber elements” in the frame of a CTI-project (Commission for Technology and Innovation). The extensive testing programme on finger-jointed timber specimens was performed in cooperation with industry partners at the ...

Designing the Smile: An interview with Alison Brooks
http://www.americanhardwood.org/tr/node/875... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2016
Ruth Slavid
There is something about The Smile, the installation in tulipwood CLT (cross laminated timber) that has been designed and made for this year’s London Design Festival, that is light and joyous. Much of this is thanks to its architect Alison Brooks who, given a brief by  client AHEC (the American Hardwood Export Council) to produce something that exploited the properties of tulipwood CLT, came up with the concept of a beam that curves up at both ends. Brooks, who is Canadian, has a particular love...

American Wood Council Webinar: Fire Tests in Support of Tall Mass Timber Buildin
https://www.thinkwood.com/news/fire-tests-support-... [Fire Performance] [Web Page] 2018
ThinkWood
Fire testing to evaluate the performance of building materials and assemblies used in construction has been a requirement of building codes since the late 19th century. Early in the 20th century, versions of the ASTM E119 Standard Test Methods for Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials were developed by the National Bureau of Standards as a means to compare the relative structural fire performance of materials and assemblies. Today, a science-based methodology exists, which allows des...

Wood: Student-friendly, budget-smart
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-projects/martha-c-cu... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2016
ThinkWood
For Washington D.C. education leaders, the Martha C. Cutts Gymnasium is more than just the region’s first cross-laminated timber building. The 11,266 square foot facility signals an exciting new construction advance that supports student well-being and school distinction within ever-tightening budgets....

Standards Development
https://www.apawood.org/standards-accreditations... [Standards/Building code] [Web Page]
APA
APA has a long and extensive history in building codes and standards development activities. It serves as the secretariat for the standing committees of U.S. Product Standard PS 1 for Structural Plywood, the consensus softwood plywood standard, and Voluntary Product Standard PS 2, the U.S. harmonized performance standard developed under the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. APA has developed performance standards over the years for numerous products, including plywood siding, wood structural pa...

Structural Engineering International
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iabse/sei/20... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Journal Article]

Structural Engineering International (SEI), the quarterly Journal of IABSE, published since 1991, is the leading international journal of structural engineering dealing with all types of structures and materials. SEI offers its readers a unique blend of short profiles on recent structures, and longer, in-depth technical articles on research, development, design, construction and maintenance. Articles are written by practicing engineers and academia from around the world and reflect the high stan...

Solid Research on Shaky Science: Building with Wood in Earthquake-Prone Regions
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?cat=9&paged=2... [Seismic Performance] [Web Page] 2015
Tom Owens
In the past decade, these nations, and many others, have been host to some of the most destructive earthquakes in recent memory. Along with the inestimable human and emotional toll these events take on communities around the globe, the costs associated with reconstruction efforts are equally astronomical, often edging into the billions of dollars. Although we can’t effectively predict or stop earthquakes from occurring, we can be ready, and minimize the impacts of these damaging seismic events....

The Old is New Again: Nail Laminated Timber
http://www.forestindustry.com/product-press-releas... [Alternative/Hybrid Configurations] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Jessica Kirby
We get so excited about Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), the fancy plywood on steroids that we talk so much about on TreeHugger. But in fact, there is a much older technology for building with wood, that warehouses and factories were built out of 150 years ago with a fancy new name: Nail-Laminated Timber, or NLT. It used to be known as heavy timber or mill decking and is drop-dead simple: you just nail a pile of lumber together and voila. Lucas Epp of Structurecraft stunned the audience in a presen...

Introduction to Brock Commons - UBC Tall Wood Building
https://www.naturallywood.com/resources/introducti... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2017
naturally: wood
Brock Commons Tallwood House is a mass timber hybrid student residence at the University of British Columbia (UBC), which at 18 storeys is the world’s tallest contemporary wood building. Brock Commons consists of a 17-storey mass timber hybrid superstructure atop a one-storey concrete podium with two full-height concrete cores that house elevators, stairs and services conduits. It accommodates 404 students in 272 studios and 33 four-bedroom units. Social and study spaces are located on the grou...

Editor’s picks: Our favourite Sydney Design Festival events
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/edito... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2018
Nicholas Rider
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) has revealed the 2018 program for Sydney Design Festival. Taking on a new format from previous years, the 2018 festival will be a collaborative platform where the majority of the events – exhibitions, installations, talks, workshops and tours – will be presented by practitioners....

Montana elevator shaft uses CLT to save time, reduce carbon emissions
http://www.smartlam.com/2016/12/29/montana-elevato... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2016
SmartLam
A multi-use, multi-level building currently under construction in Whitefish, Montana, will feature an elevator shaft manufactured from cross-laminated timber (CLT) rather than the traditional choice of concrete masonry units (CMUs). This elevator shaft—the first in the country to be made from CLT—will be 14 m (45 ft) tall on completion. ...

The American Hardwood Export Council Presents the Smile by Architect Alison Brooks for the London Design Festival
https://www.americanhardwood.org/sites/default/fil... [Case Study/Projects] [Others] 2016
American Hardwood Export Council Europe
The American Hardwood Export Council has collaborated with Alison Brooks Architects, ARUP and the London Design Festival to present a cross-laminated tulipwood structure in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground of the Chelsea College of Arts from 17 September until 12 October....

The Reduced Cross Section Method Applied to Glulam Timber Exposed to Non-standard Fire Curves
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs1... [Fire Performance] [Journal Article] 2015
David Lange, Lars Boström, Joachim Schmid, Joakim Albrektsson
Timber is an desired material for structural applications due to its green credentials and attractive external appearance. Fire safety design of timber structures is largely limited to considering the exposure of elements to the standard fire, to which timber demonstrates exceptional resilience. This paper reports on a series of tests which were carried out with the intention of exploring the impact of non-standard fires on timber elements. Because of the natural variation in timber elements, th...

The Case for Tall Wood Buildings - Second Edition
http://thecasefortallwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2... [Tall Buildings] [Report] 2017
Michael Green
The report describes a new structural system in wood that is the first significant challenger to concrete and steel structures since their inception in tall building design more than a century ago. The introduction of these ideas is fundamentally driven by the need to find safe, carbon-neutral and sustainable alternatives to the incumbent structural materials of the urban world. The market for these ideas is quite simply enormous. The proposed solutions have significant capacity to revolutionize...

American Hardwoods Export Council
http://www.americanhardwood.org/tr... [General Information] [Web Page]

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