Here Come 2015 IBC Changes!
http://seblog.strongtie.com/author/rshackelford/pa... [Standards/Building code] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2015
Randy Shackelford
All of us here at Simpson Strong-Tie hope you had a happy and successful 2014. It seems that the folks at the International Code Council had a good year. True to their plan, the 2015 editions of the International Codes were published during the summer so that they are ready for adoption in 2015....

Technology Helps Turn Salvaged Trees into Moneymakers
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?tag=nondestruc... [Other] [Web Page] 2017
Rebecca Wallace
When insect scourges run rampant through forested ecosystems they can leave behind entire stands of dead and dying trees – especially if that scourge is the spruce budworm. In the Upper Midwest, where the spruce budworm infests forests on a cyclic 30-50 year pattern, forest managers oftentimes use salvaged logs from the dead and dying trees to produce low-value wood products, such as wood pulp, or merely count the dead trees as a loss and leave them standing. But Forest Products Laboratory (FPL)...

Seismic Design
http://www.woodworks.org/design-and-tools/design-t... [Seismic Performance] [Web Page]
WoodWorks
Wood construction can economically provide a well-performing structural system for seismic behavior. Seismic forces are the result of inertial mass, so lightweight structural materials such as wood framing develop lower seismic loads from their own weight than heavier structural materials. Wood-framed wood structural panel shear wall lateral systems also behave in a preferable ductile manner. In non-technical terms, they bend and move under seismic loads instead of being rigid and breaking in a...

Tapered Beams Made of Cross Laminated Timber
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7811-5_60... [Mechanical Performance] [Book/Book Section] 2014
Marcus Flaig, Hans Joachim Blab
A method to determine strength reduction factors for tapered beamsmade of cross laminated timber (CLT) is presented. The method is based on EC5 equations for the calculation of strength reduction factors for tapered glulam beams. For CLT-beams, however, the required strength properties, i.e. the shear strength and the tensile or compressive strength perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, are determined considering the beam layup and the different failure modes both affecting the character...

What are the design manuals for wood construction in high wind areas?
http://www.awc.org/faqs/awc-standards/wfcm/what-ar... [Standards/Building code] [Web Page]
American Wood Council
The following design standards for wood construction in high wind areas are presently referenced in model building codes such as the IBC (International Building Code) and IRC (International Residential Code):1. AWC Wood Frame Construction Manual (WFCM) 2015 Edition 2. ICC Standard for Residential Construction in High Wind Regions (ICC-600)The WFCM is an ANSI approved document that provides engineered and prescriptive requirements for wood frame construction based on dead, live, snow, seismic an...

Superhouse; Architecture and interiors beyond the everyday.
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/superhou... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page]
Karen McCartney
The problem with many books on architecture is that to get a sense of a house, you need to move around in it - enter the front door, move through the space, maybe even live there for years - before you can say that you have experienced it. Architecture is a three-dimensional art form that is difficult to capture on a two-dimensional page. The subjects of Superhouse; Architecture and interiors beyond the everyday have all been chosen as examples of this reality; houses that are first and foremost...

Roy Pellerin Awarded WSU Alumni Achievement Award
https://news.wsu.edu/2003/11/24/roy-pellerin-award... [Other] [Web Page] 2003
Washington State University
During a 38-year career at WSU, Pellerin’s research enhanced the engineering uses of wood and wood materials, primarily through the development of nondestructive testing and evaluation. He started in the College of Engineering’s wood technology section in 1959, the same year he completed a degree in mechanical and materials engineering, and was appointed professor of material science and engineering in 1983. When Pellerin retired in 1996, he was a professor of civil engineering and director of W...

re-imagining the middle landscape An Exploration of the Inhabited Envelope and an Industrialized Framework for Dwelling
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/109... [Case Study/Projects] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2013
Joshua S. R. Batman
This thesis seeks to tie into the underlying ideology of the middle landscape that has shaped housing development in the United States up to this point, and re-imagine its physical manifestation. An incremental approach is taken in imagining what housing might be in America, considering our myths surrounding the single family house, micro and macro community creation, density, sustainability (regarding the economics of the home and country, as well as our place in an ecosystem), emerging timber ...

Fire behaviour of cross-laminated solid timber panels
http://iafss.org/publications/fss/9/1279/view/fss_... [Fire Performance] [Journal Article] 2008
A. Frangi, M. Fontana, M. Knobloch, G. 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...

Manufacturing Durable CLT While Cutting Costs and Exceeding Fire-Life Safety and Emission Expectations
http://mtczone2.forestbusinessne.netdna-cdn.com/wp... [Fire Performance] [Report] 2017
Scott Mcintyre
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APA Overview
https://www.apawood.org/apa-overview... [General Information] [Web Page]
APA
For more than eighty years, APA – The Engineered Wood Association has focused on helping the industry create structural wood products of exceptional strength, versatility and reliability. Combining the research efforts of scientists at APA’s 42,000 square-foot research center with the knowledge gained from decades of field work, and cooperation with our member manufacturers, APA promotes new solutions and improved processes that benefit the entire industry. The Voice of an IndustryAPA is a nonp...

GreenSpec: Wood Fibre Insulation: Manufacturing Processes
http://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/woodfib... [Moisture/Durability] [Web Page]
GreenSpec
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KLH: St Benedicts School
http://www.klhuk.com/portfolio/education/st-benedi... [Case Study/Projects] [Brochure/Product Sheet] 2019
KLH
The Cloisters a new building for St. Benedicts School, creates two new halls (one for assemblies, the other for examinations), a new Chapel, a Music School, Modern Languages department, visitor and pupil entrances for the school. An early design decision by Buschow Henley Architects, planned the new building like Russian dolls, with one hall inside the other. The inner 2-storey examination hall is framed by a cage of columns and doors which when open increase the floor area to creating enough sp...

CLT Design Resources
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/clt-desi... [Other] [Web Page]
WoodSolutions
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Opportunities for Wood
https://www.thinkwood.com/opportunities-for-wood... [General Information] [Web Page]
ThinkWood
While adaptive reuse is fulfilling some of this demand, the bulk of the opportunities is in new construction. As both a structural and finish material, wood is uniquely able to bring old and new together. Wood construction can create the feel of a rehabilitated vintage warehouse but with modern finishes and state-of-the-art building performance: reduced noise, high air quality and compact, highly efficient HVAC technology. In projects like the T3 building in Minneapolis, this translates into hi...

Speakers 2011 UMass Wood Structures Symposium
http://www.woodstructuressymposium.com/program/spe... [Other] [Web Page] 2011
WoodStructures Symposium
She currently teaches structural timber design, bio-based building composites and statics/strength of materials (tectonics) for architects, engineers and construction technologists at the University of Massachusetts. He is the past Director of the Building and ConstructionTechnology program; and is currently a Professor of Building and Construction Technology, and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Professor Fisette’s research and professional focus involve...

13-Story Timber Tower to Build in Quebec City
https://www.nordic.ca/en/company/news/13-story-tim... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2017
Nordic Structures
The province of Quebec has a lot of trees and forests, and a nascent Cross-Laminated Timber industry. Now Quebec City’s Pointe-aux-Lièvres eco-district is getting a 13 storey tower constructed of mostly CLT, 12 storeys of apartments on top of a concrete podium. (Tree Hugger)...

LA MOITIÉ DES CONDOS DE LA TOUR EN BOIS A TROUVÉ PRENEUR
https://www.nordic.ca/en/company/news/la-moitie-de... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2017
Nordic Structures
La moitié des condos de la tour en bois a trouvé preneur (FRENCH ONLY)May 8, 2017La moitié des 92 condos de la plus haute tour en bois massif d’Amérique, dans l’écoquartier de la Pointe-aux-Lièvres, a trouvé preneur. C’est ce qu’on a pu apprendre lundi, lors d’une visite guidée de cette infrastructure de 13 étages, dont 12 entièrement construits en bois massif....

The largest wooden residential building in France constructed with CLT
http://buildingandliving.storaenso.com/news/news-a... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
Stora Enso
The largest residential building with solid wood in France is constructed with CLT by Stora Enso Stora Enso will provide around 1 800 m3 of CLT for this building with 140 apartments. The project named QUAI DE LA BORDE in France will be completed within a total construction time of only 13 months. Compared to traditional building projects the construction time is significantly reduced thanks to the use of completely pre-cut CLT (Cross Laminated Timber). elements by Stora Enso. The CLT elements we...

Tales from the Test Flood: Glulam Arches
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?tag=seismic... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page] 2016
Rebecca Wallace
Researchers here at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) wrapped up testing a set of glued laminated (glulam) arches with a bang by breaking the last arch in a series of three. The arches measure 30-feet tall by 30-feet wide. Only ten arches have been tested worldwide. This experimental work is evaluating the seismic design parameters of glulam arches by simulating the forces of an earthquake and measuring how the arches perform under such stress. The collected data will be analyzed and results ...