Heavy-Timber Proponents Push for 100-Foot-Tall Wood Structures
http://enr.construction.com/buildings/building_typ... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Nadine M. Post
The American Wood Council, on a roll after it succeeded in getting new provisions into the 2015 International Building Code that allow heavy-timber structure within exterior walls, is proposing even bigger changes for the 2018 IBC, currently under development. The proposal would allow two- or three-hour-rated heavy timber to “safely serve in diverse structures” as tall as 100 ft, said Paul D. Coats, Southeast regional manager for the American Wood Council (AWC), at the 2015 American Institute o...

Governor Generals Medal Winner: BC Passive House Factory
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/features/governo... [Markets] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
Canadian Architect
When BC Passive House asked that the design and construction of its new facility reflects its approach to sustainable home construction, the architect took the message to heart. Used for the manufacturing of the client’s prefab Passive House panels, the 1,500-square-metre facility was conceived as a simple, light-filled wooden box. The main structure of the building is Douglas Fir glulam post-and-beam, with solid wood cross-laminated timber panel walls, all manufactured in British Columbia. The...

Cross-Laminated Timber Structural Design Volume 2
http://www.proholz.at/shop/publikation-detail/kate... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Report] 2018
Markus Waller-Novak, Josef Koppelhuber, Kurt Pock
Cross-laminated timber as an innovative structural element opens up new possibilities in structural timber construction. This guideline is to assist in properly exploiting and implementing the possibilities in planning and execution. Cross-laminated timber has conquered new markets since the publication of volume I Basic design and engineering principles according to Eurocode. The present volume II describing Applications provides the designer of timber structures on the one hand with basics for...

Magazine Review - The Japan Architect
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/magazine... [Other] [Web Page]
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...

APA Update | December 2017
https://www.apawood.org:443/apa-update-12-17... [Other] [Web Page] 2017
APA
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Advanced Framing
https://www.apawood.org:443/designerscircle-featur... [Markets] [Web Page]
APA
Advanced framing with 2x6 wood studs spaced 24 inches on center—combined with wood structural panel sheathing—is one of the most cost-effective solutions for builders trying to balance increasingly stringent energy codes with structural building code requirements. Advanced framing delivers several significant builder benefits; click on any of the following to learn more, or download a free copy of the Advanced Framing Construction Guide, M400 for additional information....

Performance of wood frame wall with thin shell ECC shear panel
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduat... [Mechanical Performance] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2008
Michael C. Lewis
The overall goal of this study was to evaluate an alternative to traditional wood framed shear wall construction. This study introduced the innovative idea of using a water and seismic damage resistant, wood-concrete- composite (WCC) construction instead of an all-wood design. The WCC design consisted of a thin shell of engineered cementitious composite (ECC) cast in composite with a traditional wood frame. The WCC wall was evaluated with regards to structural performance during lateral loading...

Evaluation of In-Plane Shear Strength of CLT
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280560382... [Markets] [Conference Paper] 2014
Sylvain Gagnon, Williams Munoz Toro, Mohammad Mohammad, Marjan Popovski
Several analytical and empirical methods have been developed and adopted in Europe for the determination of shear and bending properties of Cross-laminated Timber (CLT) elements loaded in-and out-of-plane. While most of the research has been focused on the out-of-plane resistance, limited information is available for designers related to in-plane shear strength of CLT elements when they are used as beams and lintels. Proposed evaluation methods for determining in-plane shear strength in CLT elem...

Puukuokka shortlisted for Finlandia Prize for Architecture
http://buildingandliving.storaenso.com/news/news-a... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2015
Stora Enso
The Kuokkala district of Jyväskylä city in the middle part of Finland is the home of the highest wooden house built in Finland so far. The house was built in 2014 and it is now shortlisted for Finlandia Prize for Architecture. The 8-storey building is constructed with modular CLT elements produced by Stora Enso´s Wood Products Hartola unit and the project was conducted together with the construction company Lakea. The building includes 58 apartments that guarantee sustainable living by utilizing...

Timber-Concrete Composites
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/sp... [Alternative/Hybrid Configurations] [Presentation] 2015
Benton Johnson
Composite construction combines different materials to satisfy the specific requirements of a given project. Common examples include composite metal deck slabs, composite steel beams with slabs, and mixed systems such as concrete cores with steel framing. This type of construction has steadily increased in popularity over the past decades. The rise in popularity stems from the economies gained by using different materials where they are most advantageous....

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...

$1.5M NSF grant helps researchers build sustainably in seismic areas
https://news.wsu.edu/2017/04/12/laminated-wood-sei... [Seismic Performance] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017
Erik Gomez
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers are collaborating on 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 Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines, University of Washington, Lehigh University, Unive...

Construction Corner: Is heavy timber a new trend generating environmental wins?
https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/resou... [Environmental Performance] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2018
Korky Koroluk
Beware of absolutes. It’s a lesson journalists learn when they’re still very young. If you call something the biggest, tallest or heaviest, it won’t be long before a reader is on the line to tell you about something that is bigger, taller or heavier. Something similar also happens when you identify a new trend. You find three or four examples of something and you rush to inform readers of a new trend. Except every marketer worthy of the name has a newer, hotter trend that puts yours to shame. Al...

AWC welcomes “Timber City” exhibit to the National Building Museum
http://www.awc.org/news/2016/09/19/awc-welcomes-ti... [Other] [Web Page] 2016
American Wood Council
The American Wood Council (AWC) was on hand to welcome the “Timber City” exhibit to the National Building Museum, which opens to the public today and will run through May 2017 in Washington, D.C. The exhibition demonstrates the many advantages offered by cutting-edge methods of timber construction, including strength, fire resistance, sustainability and beauty. Wood is the only building material made from renewable resources that also offers a carbon-sequestering alternative in both its resource...

Prefab Gateway Building By MAKE Built from Strawbale and Cross-Laminated Timber
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/pref... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2011
Lloyd Alter
There are so many things about this building for a TreeHugger to love. It's straw, the up and coming ultimate renewable resource. But conventional strawbale construction is slow, and if the stuff gets wet it is a problem, so it's prefabricated,, built in a nearby shed. The straw is compressed into a wood frame, made of our favorite cross-laminated timber. And it couldn't get more local; you can see the field that was the source of the straw from the building....

Green Building
http://www.traditionalbarnraisers.com/a/Green_Buil... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page]
Barn Raisers
What is building green? To us, it is using natural materials, sustainable practices, creating low waste, and energy efficiency so that it out-lasts the time it took to create its materials. For example, if a tree took 200 years to grow, the structure from it should last well over 200 years. We use natural materials, like the use of local rot resistant white oak, in place of pressure treated wood. I also like designing my buildings to use the sun and the environment for heating and cooling. ...

Fire behaviour of cross-laminated solid timber panels
http://iafss.org/publications/fss/9/1279... [Fire Performance] [Journal Article] 2008
Andrea Frangi, Mario Fontana, Markus Knobloch, Giovanna Bochicchio
Cross-laminated solid timber panels represent an interesting technical and economical product for modern timber structures. The use of large prefabricated cross-laminated solid timber panels for load-bearing wall and floor assemblies has become increasingly popular in particular for residential timber buildings. The fire behaviour of cross-laminated solid timber panels has been experimentally and numerically studied during two different ongoing research projects carried out at the Institute of S...

Hexion: Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor for Third Year
http://www.masstimberconference.com/event-news/hex... [Commercial/Company Information] [Others] 2018
International Mass Timber Conference
Conference Note: This is the third year in a row Hexion has stepped up as a Gold Sponsor. Hexion was the conference’s first major sponsor in its inaugural year (2016) and continues to be a steadfast supporter of the event. Hexion, one of the leading suppliers of adhesives for engineered wood applications, is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Mass Timber Conference and excited to share our products for both existing and new applications at the show in March. CLT is an increasingly popular buildi...

Bulletin of Lessons Learned: UBC Earth Sciences Building, Vancouver, Canada
https://www.naturallywood.com/sites/default/files/... [Case Study/Projects] [Report] 2012
Forestry Innovation Investment, BSLC
This bulletin presents the lessons learned and experiences gathered from stakeholders who responded to an online questionnaire and/or participated in interviews. The Earth Sciences Building (ESB) at University of British Columbia (UBC) houses multiple faculties of Science and Mathematics. The building comprises teaching, and research spaces, a wet laboratory, office spaces and three lecture theatres. The five-storey complex is organized into two wings linked by an open-concept atrium with a free...

Summary Report: Survey of International Tall Wood Buildings
https://www.naturallywood.com/sites/default/files/... [Tall Buildings] [Report] 2014
Forestry Innovation Investment, BSLC
A survey of ten tall wood building projects in several countries (the Survey) was undertaken to determine and present some common lessons learned from the experiences of four key stakeholder groups involved in the projects. The survey focused on the experiences of each projects Developer/Owner, Design Team, Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), and Construction Team....