CLT will be considered conventional in Australia by 2020. - Alex de Rijke, dRM
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/features/c... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Architecture & Design
Founding Director of London-based architecture firm de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects (dRMM), Alex de Rijke has played a central role in pioneering cross-laminated timber panel construction in the UK and Australia. de Rijke is currently touring Australia as part of a Forest and Wood Products Australia and WoodSolutions-sponsored seminar series that discusses the role of engineered timber in 21st century architecture. Architecture & Design caught up with de Rijke to see why he thinks architects ar...

Performance of Steel Energy Dissipators Connected to Cross-Laminated Timber Wall
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/reference/X... [Connectors] [Journal Article] 2016
Anthonie Kramer, Andre R. Barbosa, Arijit Sinha
This paper presents a new alternative energy dissipation solution to be used with cross-laminated timber (CLT) self-centering walls. CLT is a relatively new building product in North America and could potentially be used for high-rise construction. The development of high-performance seismic design solutions is necessary to encourage innovative structures and the design of these structures to new heights. The objective of this paper is to propose a wall-to-floor connection system that is easy to...

TBT: The Wood Handbook. A go-to resource singe 1935
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?tag=wood-handb... [General Information] [Book/Book Section] 2014
James T. Spartz
The Wood Handbook has been the go-to guide for all things wood for generations. The Wood Handbook was first issued in 1935 and revised in 1955, 1974, 1987, and 1999. Each of the Handbook’s 20 chapters is aimed at providing a general discussion of particular topics. Engineers, woodworkers, hobbyists, painters, construction specialists, and many more who work with wood now turn to the latest version. One highlight is the addition of a new introductory chapter: Wood as a Sustainable Building Materi...

Lendlease opens Yarrabilba Sales and Information Centre made entirely of CLT
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/lendl... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
Architecture & Design
Lendlease has opened a new sales and information centre for its upcoming community development in South East Queensland, Yarrabilba made from Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). The project continues a recent spate of development within Australia using the low carbon material, including the recently topped-out  six-storey International House Sydney at Barangaroo and a three tower residential CLT project at Macarthur Gardens in Sydney which also well underway and is already the largest CLT project ever...

Tallwood Design Institute
http://tallwoodinstitute.org... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] 2018
TallWood Design Institute
TallWood Design Institute (TDI) is the nation’s leading research collaborative focused on theadvancement of structural wood products. It conducts applied research and testing servicesand educates the public in order to grow the manufacturing base for structural engineeredwood products and stimulate widespread adoption of mass timber building technology in the U.S....

Tests highlight massive benefits of CLT/concrete hybrid construction system
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/tests... [Alternative/Hybrid Configurations] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
Nathan Johnson
Just as we think it’s taking off, another spanner has been thrown in the works for tall timber construction. Results from a joint research project by America’s Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Oregon State University concludes that there is strong evidence that a timber-concrete composite construction system can satisfy code requirements and compete in terms of structural performance with traditional construction methods. The team have been considering the possibility of using a hybrid concrete t...

Passive House
https://www.naturallywood.com/emerging-trends/pass... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2014
naturally: wood
Passive House is a high-performance based building standard that was developed in Europe. It focuses on reducing or eliminating the need for an active heating or cooling system to maintain a comfortable interior climate. This is achieved through efficient design that utilizes passive heating and cooling techniques and an optimized building envelope that is airtight, super-insulated and fitted with energy efficient windows and a heat recovery ventilation system (HRV). Wood is an attractive materi...

Embodied Carbon of Buildings and Infrastructure
https://www.naturallywood.com/resources/embodied-c... [Environmental Performance] [Report] 2017
naturally: wood
Addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from buildings and infrastructure is a key component of the global fight against climate change. In addition to the current focus on operational GHG emissions, this increasingly involves considering embodied GHG emissions (commonly referred to as “embodied carbon”). Embodied carbon in construction refers to the GHG emissions associated with the manufacturing, maintenance, and decommissioning of a structure. Commissioned by B.C.’s Forestry Innovation Inv...

Engineered Timber Structural Systems for Seismically Resilient Tall Buildings
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/sp... [Seismic Performance] [Report] 2014
Shiling Pei, Douglas R. Rammer
The wood building design community is developing technologies to enable economically competitive and high-performance urban infill buildings in seismic regions of the United States. Modern urbanization in the United States is driving a growing need for 8- to 14-story buildings for both residential and light commercial applications. For the wood building community, a viable tall building solution is the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT). Tall wood buildings are already constructed in low seismi...

Future of wood: Stronger than ever – Mass Timber Conference
http://www.masstimberconference.com/mass-timber-ne... [General Information] [Web Page] 2018
Gail Oberst
Giant wood beams, hewn from ancient cedar, Douglas fir and pine, once braced Oregon’s largest homes and business buildings. But as the large trees disappeared from the market, wood beams were replaced with concrete and steel. Innovations in wood products and engineering have created support beams and panels even stronger than single old-growth beams, opening new markets for younger trees grown in Northwest forests. New cross-laminated timber — known as CLT — beams and panels, and related product...

Designing for Fire Protection
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/designing-fire-... [General Information] [Magazine/Newspaper Article]
Jeffrey B. Stone
Wood construction offers economic, performance and environmental advantages not typically found with other structural materials. Wood is cost effective, versatile and adaptable. It also has a proven record for safety, evidenced by its use not only in 90 percent of all U.S. home construction but in some of today’s most innovative non-residential architecture....

Rib Elements
http://www.klh.at/es/download/public/Kreuzlagenhol... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Brochure/Product Sheet] 2014
KLH Massivholz GmbH
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Environmental Building Declarations: Analyzing a Structure from Cradle to Grave
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?tag=ebd... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2017
Rebecca Wallace
The Design Building at U.Mass Amherst continues an emerging trend in sustainable building transparency...

AHEC Blog
http://www.americanhardwood.org/en/latest/blog?fie... [General Information] [Web Page]
American Hardwood Export Council
The Smile is an urban pavilion that we created for the London Design Festival 2016, designed by award winning architect Alison Brooks and engineered by Arup, using some of the largest ever panels of tulipwood CLT (cross-laminated timber). The Smile is not just a creative installation but something far more important. The Smile is the culmination of our efforts to show that hardwoods can have a structural use in buildings. As we reflect on its success we are more aware than ever of the wealth of...

AHEC Blog
http://www.americanhardwood.org/en/latest/blog?sor... [General Information] [Web Page]
American Hardwood Export Council
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Solutions for mid-rise wood construction: apartment fire test with encapsulated CLT
http://doi.org/10.4224/21274564... [Fire Performance] [Report] 2014
B.C. Taber, G.D. Lougheed, J.Z. Su, N. Benichou
A research project, Wood and Wood-Hybrid Midrise Buildings, was undertaken to develop information to be used as the basis for alternative/acceptable solutions for mid-rise construction using wood structural elements. As part of this project, four large-scale fire experiments were conducted to evaluate the fire performance of two forms of encapsulated combustible structural wood systems, a lightweight wood-frame (LWF) system (2 experiments [3, 4]) and a cross-laminated timber (CLT) system (1 expe...

Developing a Prefabricated Low-Carbon Construction System Using Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Panels for Multistorey Inner-City Infill Housing in Australia
http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.7.3.131... [Environmental Performance] [Journal Article] 2012
Steffen Lehmann
Prefabricated engineered solid wood panel construction systems can sequester and store CO2. Modular cross-laminated timber (CLT, also called cross-lam) panels form the basis of low-carbon, engineered construction systems using solid wood panels that can be used to build residential infill developments of 10 storeys or higher. Multi-apartment buildings of 4 to 10 storeys constructed entirely in timber, such as recently in Europe, are innovative, but their social and cultural acceptance in Austral...

Wood Performance
https://www.thinkwood.com/performance... [General Information] [Web Page]
ThinkWood
Wood is the original high-performance building material. For thousands of years, builders with a vision for longevity, strength and versatility have turned to wood because of its unique qualities. Wood buildings that have stood for centuries offer testimony to the performance of wood and the skill of those who work with it....

The compelling benefits of timber construction, and challenges
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/suppliers/... [General Information] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
Wright Forest Products
The domestic building and construction sector in Australia’s largest cities continues to be in a boom phase, driven mostly by new apartment developments rather than traditional detached homes. One major trend observed in the current apartment boom is the growth of timber mid-rise buildings that are able to take advantage of timber’s dexterity as a building material as well as its strong environmental credentials. Though building and construction remain buoyant and timber demand is strong, the ot...

Nordic Structures joins AWC as first CLT-producing member
http://www.awc.org/news/2016/10/04/nordic-structur... [Other] [Web Page] 2016
American Wood Council
Nordic Structures, headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, has joined the American Wood Council (AWC). The company is dedicated to engineered wood products for the construction industry, with over 50 years of experience in the industry. Nordic Strutures manufactures cross-laminated timber (CLT), glued-laminated timber (glulam) and I-joists.” Mass timber technologies have sparked considerable innovation in building construction,” AWC President and CEO Robert Glowinski said. “All wood product manufactu...