Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
http://www.clt.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Reg... [Case Study/Projects] [Report]
Stora Enso
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2012 IBC, ASCE 7 and 2008 SDPWS Seismic Provisions for Wood Construction
http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/des/AWC-DES412-1-... [Seismic Performance] [Presentation] 2015
John Showalter, Michelle Kam-Biron
This presentation highlights 2012 International Building Code (IBC), 2010 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE 7-10) and the 2008 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS) requirements applicable to the seismic design of wood structures. Wood-frame shear wall and diaphragm code issues are discussed including deflection equations, detailing requirements, and limitations on the use of wood in seismic design. Changes from previous codes and standards will also ...

International Building Code Essentials for Wood Construction
http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/bcd/AWC-BCD410-IB... [Fire Performance] [Presentation] 2014
Paul Coats
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Updating Code Conforming Wood Designs
http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/bcd/AWC-BCD420A-U... [Standards/Building code] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2016
American Wood Council
This article provides an overview of the 2015 Code Conforming Wood Design (CCWD) document, which summarizes the most common requirements for wood construction for buildings, according to the 2015 International Building Code (IBC). CCWD was produced in partnership with the International Code Council (ICC). The purpose of this article is to explore code provisions for larger wood buildings allowed under the 2015 IBC....

Calculating the Fire Resistance of Exposed Wood Members
http://www.awc.org/pdf/codes-standards/publication... [Fire Performance] [Report]
American Wood Council
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Role of Initial Burning Objects in the Fire Growth in a Large Enclosure-Experiments for the Investigation of a Recent Timber Gymnasium Building Fire
http://www.iafss.org/publications/aofst/6/6a-4/vie... [Fire Performance] [Journal Article] 2004
D. Nam, Y. Hassemi, K. Kagiya, T. Harada
The fire, occurring in October 2000 in Hiroshima Pref. Japan, is the first blaze in Japan that has totally burned a large-scale glue-laminated timber gymnasium. The fire also deserves close attention in terms of fire safety engineering because flashover rapidly occurred in only 9 minutes from the activation of the fire detector. The extent of char layer of the members was collected to estimate the process of the fire spread in gymnasium. A series of burning tests were conducted on the combustibl...

Performance of Solid Timber External Walls Under Simulated Bushfire Attack
http://www.iafss.org/publications/aofst/7/107/view... [Fire Performance] [Conference Paper] 2008
T. Wakefield, Y. He, Y. Liu, V. Dowling
With the increasing threat of climate change there is a need to use renewable and green materials such as timber for house constructions. Current Australian standards for the construction of homes in bushfire prone areas do not consider the use of timber as a suitable material. However, our understanding of fire performance of solid timber wall constructions is still very limited. A new test standard has been drafted recently to set a special test protocol emulating Australian bushfire condition...

Theoretical and Experimental Study on Fully-Developed Compartment Fires
http://www.iafss.org/publications/aofst/7/154/view... [Fire Performance] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2006
Y. Utiskul
Fuel responses to the flame and its surroundings are essential to predict the effect of fire on the structures. This study explores these effects and applies them to the common fuel configurations. The study focuses on the fully-developed fires where all available fuel becomes involved and can potentially yield the severest damage to the structural elements. A single-zone fire model is developed along with a fuel mass loss rate model that accounts for the thermal enhancement, oxygen-limiting fee...

Moisture-induced stresses in glulam frames
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs0... [Moisture/Durability] [Journal Article] 2016
Sigurdur Ormarsson, Óskar V Gíslason
Wood is a hygroscopic and moisture-sensitive material that seeks to achieve equilibrium moisture content (EMC) with its surrounding environment. For softwood timber structures exposed to variations in climate throughout their service life, this behaviour results in variable moisture-content gradients that cause moisture-induced stresses in the direction of and perpendicular to the fibres. Although Eurocode 5 (EC5) states that moisture-induced stresses should be considered, they are often not ade...

NDS National Design Specification for Wood Construction
http://awc.org/pdf/codes-standards/publications/nd... [Standards/Building code] [Report] 2018
American Wood Council
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CLT Adhesive Tests in Support of Mass Timber Buildings
http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/des/AWC-DES604-CL... [Fire Performance] [Presentation] 2017
Jason Smart, Sam Francis
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Materials Matter: Design Trends for a Sustainable Future
http://www.woodworks.org/wp-content/uploads/WSF-OA... [Environmental Performance] [Presentation] 2013
Cheryl A. Ciecko
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Cobalt Place, London, UK
http://www.clt.info/fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/10... [Case Study/Projects] [Report] 2015
Stora Enso
Lendlease, the leading international integrated property and infrastructure group behind some of London’s largest and most exciting mixed-use regeneration projects such as Elephant & Castle and The International Quarter, has recently completed a new residential development in London’s Battersea using Stora Enso FSC certified Cross Laminated Timber for the superstructure. Cobalt Place, which was designed by AHMM Architects with timber engineering and installation by Eurban, consists of two carbon...

NS-NT601-US-ASD_Design-Properties-Nordic-X-Lam_2018-01-09.pdf
https://www.nordic.ca/data/files/datasheet/file/NS... [Raw Materials] [Others]

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Swedish graduate school in Structural Engineering
http://www.sverigesbygguniversitet.se/dokument/For... [Other] [Report]
Anders Ansell, Karin Lundgren, Roberto Crocetti, Milan Veljkovic
The Structural Engineering divisions at the four technical universities in Sweden with education in Civil Engineering have arranged a series of graduate courses in close collaboration during 2005−2012, open for all PhD-students in the field. This has been highly appreciated by the students and it was decided to continue this co-operation in the period 2012−2016. Courses planned for this period are presented in this documen...

Fire resistance of Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) and Cross-Laminated Timber (XLAM) elements
http://veprints.unica.it/713/1/Agnese_MENIS_PhD_Th... [Fire Performance] [Thesis/Dissertation] 2012
Agnes Menis
Engineering design of timber structures in fire conditions is crucial to ensure high safety levels. Wood is subjected to degradation under fire exposure therefore its thermal and mechanical behaviours change. Timber design must take the decrease of timber performance into account to calculate structural elements that can carry external loads also if exposed to high temperatures. Analytical and numerical approaches can be adopted in fire design practice. ...

Mass Timber: Performing to the Highest Standards
http://awc.org/pdf/codes-standards/fire/Mass-Timbe... [Fire Performance] [Report]
American Wood Council
Mass timber is a category of framing often using large panelized solid wood construction including cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail laminated timber (NLT), dowel-laminated timber (CLT), and glued laminated timber (glulam) panels for floor and wall framing. ...

Tall Wood Structures: Current Trends and Related Code and Standards Changes - DES600
http://awc.org/pdf/education/des/AWC-DES600-TallWo... [Fire Performance] [Presentation] 2017
American Wood Council
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been in use worldwide for over 15 years, but most notably in Europe. Building with CLT has increased in popularity for many reason including: just-in-time fabrication and job site delivery, speed and efficiency in construction, reduced job site noise and on-site labor force, substitution of high embodied materials with a renewable resource that sequesters carbon, and creating a living or working space that has the aesthetics of exposed wood....

Tall Wood Structures: Fire Resistance Design Primer for Mass Timber Construction-DES602
http://awc.org/pdf/education/des/AWC-DES602-FireRe... [Fire Performance] [Presentation] 2017
James B. Smith
This presentation examines how fire resistance ratings in the 2015 International Building Code (IBC) apply to mass timber and heavy timber construction. Topics include how the IBC incorporates fire testing and calculation methods to quantify fire resistance as well as how various materials, including wood, behave when exposed to high temperatures in fires. ...

Fire Tests in Support of Tall Mass Timber Buildings
http://awc.org/pdf/education/des/AWC-DES603-FireTe... [Fire Performance] [Presentation] 2018
Sam Francis, Jason Smart
For decades, wood products have provided architects, engineers, contractors and building owners with proven structural performance and earth-friendly, cost-effective framing choices. now, cross laminated timber (CLT) is giving north american design and construction professionals a new wood building system option. ...