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Book Review - Wood Architecture & Design
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/book-rev... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page] Michelle Galindo If you’re ever on the fence about which material to build with, then its safe to say that Wood Architecture & Design will convince you to use wood for your next project. Michelle Galindo has presented 58 beautifully captured examples of construction with wood from all corners of the globe that effectively display the utility of building with wood. Each case study contains building plans and a summary of the techniques and wood types used, along with an extensive range of pictures that illustrate... |
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Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture’s Oldest Building Material
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/building... [Markets] [Web Page] 2005 Will Pryce Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture’s Oldest Building Material is one of the most comprehensive and exquisite books on timber design that it is possible to read. It explains not only the architectural forms that different societies have developed throughout history, but it also unpacks the reasons for these differences in simple, easy-to-comprehend language. Will Pryce undertakes a monumental task in this book, but his measured approach never leaves the reader lost. Th... |
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West Virginia Elementary School is first in U.S. to use cross laminated timber (CLT)
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-projects/franklin-el... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] ThinkWood They set out to build a school that would last; they ended up achieving two significant firsts. The town of Franklin, West Virginia needed a new elementary school—quickly and on budget. Some might have expected this small, rural community to take a conventional approach. But area leaders wanted more for their students. So they did two things no one else had done: Franklin Elementary is the first design-build school project for the state of West Virginia, and the first school in the U.S. to be bu... |
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New Technologies for Construction of Medium-Rise Buildings in Seismic Regions: The XLAM Case
https://doi.org/doi:10.2749/101686608784218680... [Seismic Performance] [Journal Article] 2018 Ario Ceccotti This paper reports on the outcomes of an experimental test performed on a full-scale building constructed using innovative technology. The experimental results are compared with the outcomes of a numerical analysis with the aim to derive the behaviour factor q used in a simplified elastic design of the building under seismic actions.... |
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Status of cross-laminated timber in North America
https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/status-of-... [Markets] [Conference Paper] 2016 Omar Espinoza, Urs Buehlmann, Maria Fernanda Laguarda-Mallo, Vladimir Rodriguez Trujillo This study surveyed experts on Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) on their perspectives about research with the most positive impact on the advancement of CLT as building material in North America. Results from this study show that CLT experts in North America believe that architects are relatively well informed about CLT compared with other construction professionals, where awareness of CLT is low. The most important barriers to the adoption of CLT in North America are: the existing misperceptions he... |
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Comparison of bending stiffness of cross-laminated solid timber derived by modal
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-011-0521-7... [Vibration/Acoustic Performance] [Journal Article] 2011 Rene Steiger, Arne Gulzow, Christoph Czaderski, Martin T. Howald, Peter Niemz The design of cross-laminated solid timber (CLT) as load-bearing plates is mainly governed by serviceability criterions like maximal deflection and susceptibility to vibration. Hence, predicting the respective behavior of such plates requires accurate information about their elastic properties. According to product standards, the bending stiffness of CLT has to be assessed from 4-point bending tests of strip-shaped specimens, cut from the CLT panels. By comparing elastic properties of CLT derive... |
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Experimental Testing of Rocking Cross-Laminated Timber Walls with Resilient Slip
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001931... [Connectors] [Journal Article] 2018 Ashkan Hashemi, Pouyan Zarnani, Reza Masoudnia, Pierre Quenneville Allowing a wall to rock and uplift during a seismic event can cap the forces and minimize the postevent residual damage. Slip friction connections comprised of flat steel plates sliding over each other have been experimentally tested as the hold-down connectors in timber shear walls and performed well in terms of the hysteretic behavior and the energy dissipation rate. However, the main disadvantage of these joints is the undesirable residual displacements. In recognition of this fact, a novel t... |
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Building Materials Matter
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/building-materi... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood From an environmental perspective, it is widely known that buildings matter. Buildings consume nearly half the energy produced in the United States, use three quarters of the electricity, and account for nearly half of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.... |
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Mehrfeldträger
http://www.derix.de/de/service/lexikon/mehrfeldtra... [General Information] [Web Page] DERIX Mehrfeldträger werden für Pfetten, also im Dach parallel zur Traufe verlegte Bauteile zur Aufnahme der Dacheindeckung, verwendet. Man setzt sie auch als Hauptträger bei Produktions- und Lagerhallen zur Überdeckung paralleler Hallenschiffe ein. Die Beanspruchungen können durch eine geschickte Anordnung von Gelenken im Stabzug gesteuert werden. Dadurch ergeben sich schlanke Bauteile mit Längen, die leicht zu transportieren sind. Mehrfeldträger für Pfetten weisen Spannweiten von sechs bis 10 Metern... |
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Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)
https://thinkwood.com/products-and-systems/cross-l... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a wood panel system that is gaining in popularity in the U.S. after being widely adopted in Europe. CLT is the basis of the tall wood movement, as the material’s high strength, dimensional stability and rigidity allow it to be used in mid- and high-rise construction.... |
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Taller Buildings
https://thinkwood.com/building-better/taller-build... [Tall Buildings] [Web Page] ThinkWood By 2050 the world’s population will see an additional 2.5 Billion people move to cities (Source: United Nations). North American cities are already booming due to urbanization, and architects, developers and planners are being tasked with accommodating the increasing demand for spaces to work, learn, live and play.... |
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Crossroads Canopies
https://structurecraft.com/projects/crossroads-can... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] StructureCraft Design, fabrication and installation of 5,000 sq. ft. of timber, glass, steel and concrete canopy structures consisting of laminated glazing on steel grids supported by “beetle-pine glulam beams and columns. The beams and columns are of modified elliptical cross-section, and the columns, for durabilitiy, transition to moment-connected specially formed precast concrete.... |
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Banff Legacy Trail Bridge
https://structurecraft.com/projects/banff-legacy-t... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] StructureCraft Shortly after designing, fabricating, and erecting the 80m clearspan (113m total) Bow River Pedestrian Bridge in Banff, Canada, we were awarded the contract to design and build a similarly styled but smaller pedestrian bridge. The abutments and superstructure were erected in under 6 hours due to the extensively detailed design and precise prefabrication of the components.... |
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Okanagan College Gym
https://structurecraft.com/projects/okanagan-colle... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] StructureCraft his Living Building Challenge (LBC) project demonstrates the use of Composite Concrete-Timber (CCT) as gymnasium wall panels. The 30 pre-finished panels (about 12,000 sq.ft.) were fabricated in the shop complete with insulation, in-built radiant heat piping, and MEP rough-ins.... |
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Two-family house Raeren
http://www.derix.de/referenzen/wohnungsbau/wohnhau... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] DERIX ... |
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Home for refugees (Erkelenz)
http://www.derix.de/referenzen/referenzen-xlam/asy... [Vibration/Acoustic Performance] [Web Page] DERIX The Derix-Group has developed a modular concept to accommodate refugees and people seeking asylum.... |
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EPA Formaldehyde Ruling: What does it mean for wood I-joists? - APA – The Engine
https://www.apawood.org/epa-formaldehyde-ruling-wo... [Standards/Building code] [Web Page] APA On July 5, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew its ruling that would have delayed compliance dates for formaldehyde emissions standards on specific composite wood products. APA along with other wood trade associations had submitted public comments urging that the EPA implement the formaldehyde standards at the earliest possible timeline. Under the new EPA formaldehyde standard, prefabricated wood I-joists, wood structural panels, and other structural engineered wood pro... |
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Peel Youth Villiage: Mississauga, Ontario
https://www.nordic.ca/en/projects/structures/peel-... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] Nordic Structures Peel Youth Village is a non-profit organization dedicated to sheltering homeless youths. The building comprises 48 studio apartments, and has won a number of architectural awards that stress the material benefits of wood, including strength, sustainability, beauty, and affordability. Sustainably harvested Nordic Engineered Wood products were chosen for their structural and aesthetic qualities.... |
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2012 WoodSolutions UK Field Tour
https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/2012-woo... [Markets] [Web Page] WoodSolutions Here is your opportunity to join an exclusive group of architects, engineers and property developers on a 5 day tour of some of UK s most innovative and interesting timber projects. No two timber structures look alike so there is much more scope for the architect and engineer to stamp their mark on the structureSee projects by Hopkins Architects, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Dixon Jones, Glen Howells Architects and more ...... Marcus broad experience includes 21 years at Richard Rogers Part... |
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Cross-laminated timber: an introduction
https://www.trada.co.uk/publications/other-technic... [General Information] [Report] TRADA This introductory guide to cross-laminated timber (CLT) for architects, building designers and their clients has been prepared by architect Hugh Strange and BM TRADA, in consultation with other TRADA members leading the field in CLT design, manufacture and construction - including Waugh Thistleton, Arup, Ramboll, B&K, Eurban, KLH and Stora Enso. It explains what CLT is, how it is made, sustainability, key structural aspects and other properties, visual aspects, uses and how it compares to altern... |
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