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Winners of the wood awards 2017 announced
https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/hr-skills-news/win... [Other] [Web Page] 2017 Planning & Building Control Today Hosted by Johanna Agerman Ross, Founder of Disegno magazine and Curator of Twentieth Century and Contemporary Furniture and Product Design at the V&A, the Wood Awards is the UK’s premier competition for excellence in architecture and product design in the world’s only naturally sustainable material. The Wood Awards aims to recognise, encourage and promote outstanding design, craftsmanship and installation using wood. The judges selected Rievaulx Abbey Visitor Centre & Museum as the Commercial &... |
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Innovative Structural Design: Macquarie University Innovation Hub
http://timberdesignawards.com.au/component/speasyi... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2018 Timber Design Awards Macquarie University Innovation Hub is an ambitious, well-crafted building enabled by an aspirational Client and a unique collaboration of design professionals. The brief required a prefabricated timber structure to enable future dismantle, relocation and reassembly. Project deadlines necessitated fast-tracked construction which the team achieved through design for manufacture and assembly. The floor consists of timber cassettes concealed beneath a cork access floor, supported by screw piles. V... |
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Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/detail-c... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page] Virginia McLead Many books on architecture are designed for the casual reader, examining only the basic visual elements of a building for their aesthetics. Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture by Virginia McLeod goes further than most, looking at both the aesthetics of buildings and the complex engineering that underpins their creation. The book is divided into sections based on building type: ‘Cultural and Educational’, ‘Houses’, ‘Leisure’ and ‘Public and Office’. The first page contains a fairly short e... |
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Vancouver-based MGA and DLR Group design largest mass timber building in United
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/mga... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016 Canadian Architect Designed by Vancouver-based Michael Green Architecture (MGA) in conjunction with Architect-of-Record DLR Group, the seven storey office building in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighbourhood is the largest mass timber building in the United States. When Hines approached MGA with this project, they envisioned T3 as a unique model of new-office building; an opportunity to offer a modern interpretation of the robust character of historic wood, brick, stone, and steel buildings with the additional benefi... |
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Building Fast, Building Green with CLT
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?p=26535... [Environmental Performance] [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. A new brochure from USDA, Cross-Laminated Timber and Green Building, provides a quick look at the benefits of CLT and highlights two construction projects as case studies. Construction on Framework, a groundbreaking high rise residential building in Portland, Oregon, began in 2015. The buildin... |
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What the heck is CLT? - Sustainable Lumber Company
http://www.sustainablelumberco.com/2017/12/what-th... [Markets] [Web Page] 2017 Sustainable Lumber Co. The building industry is constantly growing, evolving, and changing. As technology and science continue to advance, new products are created every day. The Forest Products industry is no different. One of the newest advances within the Forest Products Industry is the development of CLT. In the next few months we will be posting articles and information on CLT in order to educate and create dialog about this new growing segment within the building community. Sustainable Lumber Co. has always be... |
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The New Central Calgary Library
https://structurecraft.com/projects/calgary-centra... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] Structure Craft ... |
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Get Ready for Skyscrapers Made of Wood. (Yes, Wood) | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wood-skyscrapers... [Markets] [Others] Chicago has always been a city defined by metal and concrete, but now, an ambitious new proposal promises to introduce a new material to Chicagos skyline, and to skyscrapers around the world: wood. Today, on a site along the Chicago River, architects are exploring a new kind of high-rise structure built entirely from timber. The River Beech Tower is a spindly, beechwood building whose 80 stories cut a blonde silhouette against Chicago’s dark, glassy horizon. Its part of an ongoing research proj... |
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Conversation Plinth Encourages Discussion about Hardwood CLT at Exhibit Columbus Exhibition in Indiana
http://www.americanhardwood.org/en/examples/case-s... [General Information] [Web Page] American Hardwood Export Council Design firm IKD has unveiled the first hardwood Cross Laminated (CLT) structure in the United States at the 2017 Exhibit Columbus exhibition. The Conversation Plinth, which has won the Miller Prize, sparks conversation whilst transforming the cityscape, and is situated in the main plaza of Columbus, Indiana for the duration of the exhibition until the end of November. Conversation Plinth aims to celebrate the community of Columbus while also paying homage to past revolutionaries of design such a... |
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On the Boards: The Canyons
http://djcoregon.com/news/2018/01/02/on-the-boards... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2018 Kent Hohfeld ... |
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Simplified analysis of timber rivet connections
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/spe... [Connectors] [Conference Paper] 2000 Douglas C. Stahl, Marshall Begel, Ronald W. Wolfe Timber rivets, fasteners for glulam and heavy timber construction, have been used in Canada for about thirty years and recently were adopted by the U.S. National Design Specification for Wood Construction (NDS). Rivet connections can exhibit two failure modes, one of which is fundamentally different from those of other dowel fasteners. Failure can occur when a volume of wood bounded by the perimeter of the closely spaced rivets pulls out from the timber, or via a combination of fastener yielding... |
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Wood Engineering
http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Wood_Engineer... [Other] [Web Page] academia.edu ... |
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APA Update | October 2017
https://www.apawood.org:443/apa-update-10-17... [Markets] [Web Page] 2017 APA The Performance Path to Energy Code Compliance, Form R505, offers an introduction to two of the most cost-effective ways to comply with International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). The Simulated Performance Alternative (performance) and Energy Rating Index (ERI) compliance paths allow builders to value-engineer energy efficiency by viewing the entire home as a system, getting more bang for the buck by trading out higher-cost building assemblies for less expensive, energy-efficient assemblies ... |
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Maicasagi Bridge
https://www.cecobois.com/en/projects/maicasagi-bri... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] cecobois Located in the Nord-du-Québec region, the Maicasagi bridge is the longest single-span wood bridge in the world. Its designers developed a bold structural system that combined cross-laminated timber with glue-laminated timber to create two huge box girders. This innovative structure not only enables 180-ton logging trucks to travel over a 68-metre-long clear span but also secures access to areas north of the river. The cross-laminated timber is made up of glue-laminated black spruce boards laid ... |
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AHEC | Maggies oldham | CLT american tulipwood | drmm architects
http://www.americanhardwood.org/index.php/en/examp... [Raw Materials] [Others] 2019 AHEC The worlds first building made from hardwood cross laminated tulipwood in Oldham, designed by dRMM Architects for Maggies. The building is set to become a pivotal moment for modern architecture and timber in construction.... |
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Brock Commons - Code Compliance
https://www.naturallywood.com/resources/brock-comm... [Standards/Building code] [Report] 2016 naturally: wood Brock Commons Tallwood House is one of the University’s five high-rise, mixed-use, residential complexes that provide housing for students while acting as academic and recreational hubs for the campus community. The hubs are all of similar programming and urban design, however the Brock Commons building is unique in the use of a mass timber hybrid structure. The foundation, ground floor, and stair/elevator cores are concrete, while the superstructure is composed of cross-laminated introduction t... |
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$1.5M grant supports testing laminated wood in seismic conditions
https://cmec.wsu.edu/2017/04/13/1-5m-grant-support... [Seismic Performance] [Web Page] 2017 Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to develop guidelines that will help builders use more sustainable timber in high-rise buildings in earthquake-prone areas. Daniel Dolan, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University is working in collaboration with the Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines, University of Washington, Lehigh University, the Univ... |
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Mid-Rise Construction
https://www.oboa.on.ca/events/2012/sessions/files/... [General Information] [Presentation] 2012 Steven Street, Max Torossi ... |
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Fire Performance of Timber Structures under Natural Fire Conditions
http://iafss.org/publications/fss/8/279/view/fss_8... [Fire Performance] [Book/Book Section] 2005 Andrea Frangi, Mario Fontana In recent years the use of wood as a building material has become popular, especially for dwellings. One of the preconditions for its use is adequate fire safety. Technical measures, especially sprinkler and smoke detection systems, well equipped fire brigades and a better knowledge in the area of structural fire design of timber structures allow the use of timber in a wider field of application. Full scale tests on wooden modular hotels were performed under natural fire conditions to look at th... |
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