NHERI TallWood Research Tasks
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The specimen (see below) designed in Task 7 to achieve the resilience targets will be constructed and tested on the NHERI@UCSD’s outdoor shake table through collaboration with industry. Based on the existing experience with the speed of CLT construction and the relatively small floor plan of the specimen, the structural frame of the building can be completed within 2 months, and 2 additional months will be needed for installation of needed non-structural components. The building will be subject...

6 Things We Learned at the Cross Laminated Timber Forum | Forterra
https://forterra.org/editorial/6-things-learned-cr... [General Information] [Web Page] 2016

Cross laminated timber (CLT) is a wood-based alternative to conventional construction materials. Unlike regular lumber, it can be used structurally in very large and tall buildings. It is manufactured by fusing crisscrossing layers of wood, which leads to a material remarkable in strength, stability and range of sizes. If created from sustainably harvested trees, CLT has the potential to provide environmental benefits and generate rural jobs. On November 1st, over 100 industry, design, academic...

Damage Assessment of Connections Used in Cross-Laminated Timber Subject to Cyclic Loads
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CF.1... [Connectors] [Journal Article] 2014
J. Schneider, E. Karacabeyli, M. Popovski, S.F. Stiemer
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) products are gaining popularity in the North American market and are being used in midrise wood buildings, in particular, in shearwall applications. Shearwalls provide resistance to lateral loads such as wind and earthquake loads, and therefore it is important to gain a better understanding of the behavior of CLT shearwall systems during earthquake events. This paper is focused on the seismic performance of connections between CLT shearwall panels and the foundation....

Examination of the Lateral Resistance of Cross-Laminated Timber in Panel-Panel C
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/56969... [Connectors] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2015
Benjamin Lee Richardson
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) combines layers of dimension lumber in alternating grain direction to form a mass timber panel that can be used to create entire wall, floor and roof elements. The viability of CLT as an element to resist lateral forces from racking has been of great interest (Dujic et al. 2004, Blass and Fellmoser 2004, and Moosbrugger et al. 2006). However, most research to date has been conducted on full-scale wall panels connected with proprietary fasteners according to European ...

KLH: 25 Hurst Avenue
http://www.klhuk.com/portfolio/residential/25-hurs... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] 2019
KLH
Championing a modern sustainable lifestyle, 25 Hurst Avenue, designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects and developed by BLISS, is a refreshing, original and distinctive development that sets a new standard. Located on a tree-lined avenue in Highgate, the development is designed around the ethos of Moroccan Riad living, merging inside and outside through sliding floor-to-ceiling glass walls and wide open aspects. The accommodation provides a selection of connected lifestyle spaces over three floors...

Swedish Architecture in Wood: The 2004 Timber Prize
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WoodSolutions
Author: Compiled by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation and the respective architects of the structuresThe Scandinavian countries have a strong tradition of building in wood, one that has outlasted the modern age of steel and concrete. One of the ways in which the government of Sweden encourages more building in wood is in Sweden’s Timber Prize, an annual competition open solely to designs that showcase excellence in wood use and that rewards buildings that incorporate wood holistically wi...

Pont Maicasagi
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Nordic Structures
Situé dans le Nord-du-Québec, le pont Maicasagi est le plus long pont droit en bois à portée simple au monde. Ses concepteurs ont développé un système structural audacieux alliant le bois lamellé-croisé et le bois lamellé-collé pour former deux immenses poutres-caissons. Cette structure innovante permet d’assurer la traversée de véhicules forestiers de 180 tonnes sur une portée libre de 68 m et rend accessible les territoires situés au nord de la rivière....

Brock Commons Tallwood House
https://www.naturallywood.com/emerging-trends/tall... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2016
naturally:wood
Brock Commons Tallwood House is an innovative tall wood hybrid building at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Aside from providing much needed student residence spaces, Brock Commons showcases mass timber as a practical building material in a high-rise application and demonstrates an innovative and sustainable way to improve the performance of buildings. Construction of Brock Commons demonstrated that its innovative mass timber-hybrid structural system is economically viable, repeatable a...

About Us - naturally:wood
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naturally:wood
Developed by FII, naturally:wood is a comprehensive information resource promoting British Columbia as a global supplier of quality, environmentally-responsible forest products from sustainably-managed forests. FII is a Crown Agency of the Province of British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. FII works with the Government of British Columbia, Government of Canada, independent academic and research institutes, trade associations and wood products companies to support an environmentally sustainable and gl...

Mass Timber Research Workshop Presentations Available Online!
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?p=25670... [Other] [Web Page] 2015
Rebecca Wallace
The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) recently hosted the inaugural Mass Timber Research Workshop in cooperation with Woodworks – Wood Products Council. During the two-day event, more than 120 national and international attendees, including 26 presenters, gathered to learn about cross laminated timber (CLT) and how its design and use can further green building efforts while also aiding in forest restoration activities. If you weren’t able to attend the workshop, never fear! The presentations are ...

I noticed that MWFRS coefficients are used, which is ok for walls, but I typically use C + C coefficients for truss anchorages. How does WFCM address this?
http://awc.org/faqs/awc-standards/wfcm/i-noticed-t... [Standards/Building code] [Web Page]
American Wood Council
From the WFCM Commentary: Uplift for design of rafters, roof cladding, and roof sheathing attachment is calculated using Components and Cladding (C&C) loads. Uplift connections for roof assemblies are calculated using enveloped Main Wind Force-Resisting System (MWFRS) loads. The rationale for using MWFRS loads for computing the uplift of roof assemblies recognizes that the spatial and temporal pressure fluctuations that cause the higher coefficients for components and cladding are effectively av...

Performance of Glued-Laminated Timbers with FRP Shear and Flexural Reinforcement
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CC.1943-5614.0000206... [Fire Performance] [Journal Article] 2011
T. Russell Gentry
Glued-laminated wood beams (glulams) have low allowable shear stresses relative to competitive engineering wood products such as parallel strand lumber and laminated veneer lumber. For heavily loaded applications such as garage door headers, the lower shear allowable stresses typically necessitate the use of larger glulam members relative to other engineered lumber. This paper reports on experimental research aimed at increasing the shear capacity of glulams. To increase the shear strength, a se...

2015 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence deadline Friday!
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/201... [Other] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Canadian Architect
The Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence is an annual awards program open to all architects registered in Canada and to Canadian architectural graduates for buildings designed in Canada and abroad. To submit your entry to the 2015 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence, please visit jury for this year’s awards has been finalized, and is comprised of: Maxime-Alexis Frappier, principal and lead designer at ACDF Architecture in Montreal; Pat Hanson, founding partner of gh3 in Toronto; and Joh...

SmartLam presented with Governor’s Award
http://www.smartlam.com/2016/10/18/smartlam-presen... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] 2016
SmartLam
Governor Steve Bullock presented SmartLam LLC with Governor’s Award  for Excellence in the Use and Promotion of Montana Wood at the 2016 Forestry Pioneers Ceremony on October 18th in Missoula. Established by Executive Order No.12-2014 to Promote Use of Montana Wood Products, this award is part of a greater effort to foster economic growth, community enhancement, and conservation in the state of Montana. In his presentation of the award, Bullock noted that practices and efforts laid down by histo...

AWC applauds Tall Wood Building Competition winners
http://awc.org/news/2015/09/17/awc-applauds-tall-w... [Other] [Web Page] 2015
American Wood Council
American Wood Council (AWC) President and CEO Robert Glowinski has issued the following statement in response to the announcement of the Tall Wood Building Competition winners. The competition is a partnership between the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, Softwood Lumber Board and U.S. Department of Agriculture. “These winning designs will serve as living case studies on the numerous reasons to build taller with wood. Beyond its aesthetic qualities, wood is among the most energy-efficient and ...

Examination of the Lateral Resistance of Cross Laminated Timber Panel-to-Panel Connections
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/109... [Connectors] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2015
Benjamin Lee Richardson
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the behavior of three small-scale CLT connection configurations using non-proprietary fasteners. Three different connections -LVL surface spline with lag screws, half-lap joint with lag screws, and butt joint with a steel plate fastened with nails – were tested in both monotonic and cyclic tests. In all, 30 connection tests were conducted, with 15 monotonic test and 15 cyclic tests. Connection strength, stiffness, and ductility were recorded for each c...

Constructing Our Environments: A Material Comparison
https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/1001... [Markets] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2014
Henry Smith Murdock
Our built environment is constantly adapting to changing factors: technology, the state of the economy, material resource availability, and, in turn, environmental conditions. The latter has gained notable importance in popular discourse, and especially in the architecture and construction professions. However, as much as we see terms such as “sustainability” and “green” in our everyday lives, government and industry are slow to take action investing in our future environment. Material resources...

Validation of prediction tools and constructions-grouping, verification measurements and trend analysis
http://silent-timber-build.com/wp-content/uploads/... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Report] 2017
Anders Homb, Catherine Guigou-Carter, Klas Hagberg, Moritz Späh, Heinz Ferk
This report comprises results from Work Package 2 (WP 2) within the European Wood Wisdom Net+ research project “Silent Timber Build” (www.silent-timber-build.com). The title of WP 2 was – “Validation of prediction tools and constructions” and the aim was to validate the theoretical models developed in WP 1 by using already available and also new measurements from laboratory and field. Analysis have been made and optimized constructions was used in validation procedure. Hence the input from WP 2 ...

Life Cycle Assessment: Building Green with Wood in B.C.
https://www.naturallywood.com/sites/default/files/... [Markets] [Report] 2015
naturally: wood
The most widely accepted scientific method to compare design choices and building materials effectively is life cycle assessment (LCA). It has existed in various forms since the early 1960s, and the protocol for completing life cycle assessments was standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 14040-42) in the late 1990s....

A 1905 Fire Station in Connecticut Converted into a Community Hub for Art and Music
https://www.nordic.ca/en/company/news/a-1905-fire-... [Markets] [Web Page] 2017
Nordic Structures
Ask any two people from New Haven what Firehouse 12 is, and you’re almost bound to get two different answers. To music lovers, the restored 1905 fire station on Crown Street is Connecticut’s preeminent venue for experimental jazz, a place where artists who normally have a hard time booking gigs outside of major cities can draw an enthusiastic crowd. For the civic-minded, it’s a local success story, the crown jewel in New Haven’s decades-long effort to clean up the Ninth Square district....