Lend Lease’s $1 billion prefab start-up to manufacture CLT building components i
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/lend-... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] 2015
Architecture & Design
Lend Lease will open a factory in Sydney next year dedicated to manufacturing pre-fabricated building components, including cross-laminated timber (CLT) framework. The construction heavyweight will commit $1 billion over the next five years to the start-up company which will prefabricate a range of building components including entire wall sections fit with glazing, plasterboard and high-tech CLT. The business will be called Design Make and will devote a large portion of their 15,000sqm purpose-...

Architects in Vienna plan to build this skyscraper out of wood
https://archpaper.com/2015/03/worlds-tallest-wood-... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Maddy French
Last year, AN‘s Midwest Editor Chris Bentley reported on the advances being made in wood construction and how we were on the verge of seeing tall timber towers sprout up around the world. The AEC community has been talking about building high-rise structures with wood for years, but there obviously hasn’t been a major revolution with the building type just yet—the tallest modern wood building doesn’t even top 100 feet. The Guardian is reporting that a 276-foot-tall wood tower, known as the HoHo ...

Taking Timber To New Heights
https://www.hyne.com.au/article/55/taking-timber-t... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] 2016
Hyne Timber
Our growing population’s development and expansion continues to have a great impact on the natural environment. The consumption of many natural resources can be attributed to the manufacturing, design, and construction of the buildings that we live and work in. Because of this, the use of sustainable building materials is integral in the creation of energy efficient, eco-friendly buildings. With the recent positive changes to the National Construction Code, enabling timber construction up to eig...

Building Fast, Building Green with CLT
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?p=26535#second... [General Information] [Web Page] 2016
Rebecca Wallace
Researchers at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and around the world have been exploring cross-laminated timber (CLT) as a greener alternative to traditional building materials like concrete and steel....

Rolling Shear Properties of some European Timber Species with Focus on Cross Laminated Timber (CLT): Test Configuration and Parameter Study
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch:443/bitstr... [Raw Materials] [Conference Paper] 2015
Thomas Ehrhart, Reinhard Brandner, Gerhard Schickhofer, Andrea Frangi
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Designing the Smile: An interview with Alison Brooks
http://www.americanhardwood.org/en/latest/blog/des... [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...

Oregon State Universitys Peavy Hall - Oregon CLT
https://oregonclt.com/oregon-state-universitys-pea... [Markets] [Others]

Oregon State University’s College of Forestry is constructing its new main building out of entirely engineered wood products, namely cross-laminated timber, and will be the first in the U.S. to use a “rocking wall” seismic design. The new 80,000-square-foot Peavy Hall will be part of the Oregon Forest Science Complex in Corvallis, Oregon and features more than one million board feet of cross-laminated timber panels and glulam beams and columns. The “rocking wall” design is a resilient wall-to-f...

Future now: Examining the changing architecture of the city
https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/planning-construct... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
Planning & Building Control Today
When designing a new apartment block or office building, architects must consider climate change and the sustainability of that design. With an aging population, new buildings must be able to accommodate more inhabitants than ever before and stay stable in urbanised areas. The architecture of the city will have to adapt to accommodate this growing urban population – and some cutting-edge building designs are already showing the way. When deciding what a structure should be built from, architects...

Structural Design & Pre-Analysis
http://www.klh.at/en/application/statics... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page]
KLH Massivholz GmbH
With their excellent static properties due to a cross-wise structure and their load transferring ability toward all sides, KLH solid cross-laminated timber boards meet all requirements for high-quality, innovative and technically sophisticated structural timber engineering. Their high load-bearing capacity in combination with a low dead weight allows a lean design of components even in case of large spans. Point-supported constructions or projections can be realised in a simple and economically ...

Vision
http://www.americanhardwood.org/index.php/en/examp... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page]
American Hardwood Export Council
The Smile was to be an urban installation aimed at transforming the way architects and engineers approach timber construction. David Venables, AHEC’s European director and initiator of the project, said ‘This project is meant to represent the challenges of a building… American tulipwood is an abundant, lightweight but strong hardwood; and The Smile is the culmination of an effort by AHEC to show that it can have a structural use in buildings’. While CLT is becoming a widely accepted means of bu...

Strength and stiffness of cross laminated timber at in-plane beam loading - Lund
http://portal.research.lu.se/portal/sv/publication... [Vibration/Acoustic Performance] [Others]

This report concerns element strength and stiffness of cross laminated timber (CLT) at in-plane beam loading and includes presentation of experimental investigations and a review of some analytical models for structural analysis. A total of 20 individual tests were carried out, divided into five different test series which each comprise four nominally equal tests. The test series include prismatic beams (two test series), beams with a hole (two test series) and beams with an end-notch (one test...

The Forest Products Report
http://multibriefs.com/briefs/FPS/FPS071917.php... [General Information] [Web Page]
The Forest Products Society
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EPA Formaldehyde Ruling: What does it mean for wood I-Joists?
https://www.nordic.ca/en/company/news/epa-formalde... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page] 2017
Nordic Structures
On July 5, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew its ruling that would have delayed compliance dates for formaldehyde emissions standards on specific composite wood products. The EPA will instead proceed with a final rule based on its proposed rule published on May 24, 2017 after considering all public comments. APA along with other wood trade associations had submitted public comments urging that the EPA implement the formaldehyde standards at the earliest possible timel...

Helping cross-laminated timber go mainstream
http://thelens.news/2018/02/14/helping-cross-lamin... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2018
TJ Martinell
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) isn’t a silver bullet for Washington’s rural economy and public forestland health, but it may be as close as it gets. The result of gluing several layers of lumber to form a single wood panel, CLT offers the promise of efficient construction for developments, a revitalized mill infrastructure for struggling rural economies and improved forest health by removing small-diameter trees that are susceptible to overcrowding and ill-suited for other uses. However, obstacles...

AWC Statement on CEQ Climate and Natural Resources Priority Agenda Released To
http://awc.org/news/2014/10/08/awc-statement-on-ce... [Other] [Web Page] 2014
American Wood Council
American Wood Council President and CEO Robert Glowinski has issued the following statement regarding the Council of Environmental Quality...

UBC Mass Timber Buildings
https://www.naturallywood.com/resources/ubc-mass-t... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2016
naturally: wood
With the innovative use of mass timber in its academic and operational buildings, the University of British Columbia (UBC) is at the forefront of revitalizing wood construction. Integrating wood, a renewable material that stores carbon, into its buildings, reflects UBC’s commitment to sustainability and pioneering new building technologies which expands the market for B.C. forest products....

Magazine Review - The Japan Architect
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/magazine... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page] 2013
Wood Solutions
The Japan Architect (JA) is a dual-language English/Japanese publication that endeavours to bring Japanese architectural practices into a wider awareness. It showcases buildings and structures that have involved Japanese architects, builders and structural engineers with a particular emphasis on structures that highlight Japanese building practices and/or materials. There are several essays included in each issue that discuss a particular theme, and presentations of many (20+) architectural pro...

Working with Nature - Annual Report 2017
http://usendowment.org/images/2017_USE_Annual-Repo... [Environmental Performance] [Report] 2017
U.S. Endowment for Forestry
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March 2018 - Appalachian Hardwood Newsletter
http://www.appalachianwood.org/nl/2018/18march.pdf... [General Information] [Others] 2018
Appalachian Hardwood
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March 2017 - Appalachian Hardwood Newsletter
http://www.appalachianwood.org/nl/2017/17march.pdf... [General Information] [Others] 2017
Appalachian Hardwood
Cross-laminated timber will be the building material of the 21st century, said a keynote speaker at the 2017 Annual Meeting of Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Inc. A great crowd of members and guests met at The Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, FL, to hear excellent presentations on key industry issues. The following is a recap of each of the speakers....