|
Structural timber - sizes and permitted deviations
https://www.trada.co.uk/academic/further-topics-in... [Standards/Building code] [Web Page] TRADA ... |
|
KLH: Open Academy, Norwich
http://www.klhuk.com/portfolio/education/open-acad... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] KLH-UK The Open Academy Norwich is currently the largest building in the UK made solely out of cross-laminated timber.... |
|
Timber Grows Up
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/timber-grows-up... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood This course discusses recently completed, under-construction, and proposed mass-timber buildings. It outlines the environmental benefits, as well as the challenges, of using wood in unconventional ways—both in tall and low-rise structures. And it explores the structural, fire-resistive, and other performance qualities of engineered-wood products.... |
|
Designing for Durability
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/designing-for-d... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page] ThinkWood Architects specify wood for many reasons, including cost, ease and efficiency of construction, design versatility, and sustainability—as well as its beauty and the innate appeal of nature and natural materials. Innovative new technologies and building systems are also leading to the increased use of wood as a structural material, not only in houses, schools, and other traditional applications, but in larger, taller, and more visionary wood buildings.... |
|
Evaluating the Carbon Footprint of Wood Buildings
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/evaluating-carb... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page] ThinkWood Worldwide, there has been increasing focus on the carbon footprint of buildings and recognition that design professionals are positioned to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by creating high-performance structures. The building sector consumes nearly half of all energy produced in the United States, 75 percent of the electricity produced is used operating buildings, and, in 2010, the building sector was responsible for nearly half of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.... |
|
Green Building and Wood Products
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/green-building-... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page] ThinkWood With growing pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment, building designers are increasingly being called upon to balance functionality and cost objectives with reduced environmental impact. Wood can help to achieve that balance.... |
|
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/impact-wood-use... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood As green building has evolved beyond its initial emphasis on energy efficiency, greater attention has been given to the choice of structural materials and the degree to which they influence a building’s environmental footprint. Increasingly, wood from sustainably managed forests is viewed as a responsible choice—for a number of reasons. Wood grows naturally by harnessing energy from the sun, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.... |
|
Energy Efficient Wood Buildings
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/energy-efficien... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page] ThinkWood Wood’s favorable carbon footprint is one reason more North American architects are choosing wood-frame construction for buildings up to six stories while closely following the rise of taller wood buildings made from mass timber and hybrid buildings. However, while it is fairly well known that wood products sequester carbon and typically require less energy to manufacture than other building materials, their performance related to operational energy efficiency is often overlooked.... |
|
Wood and Indoor Environment
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/wood-indoor-env... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood The objectives of sustainable design are broader than just environmental effects, having come to embrace issues of human health and performance. As sedentary and service-related work becomes more prevalent in our society, the amount of time people spend inside buildings increases—the average North American spends 90 percent of his or her time indoors, another 5 percent in cars and only 5 percent outside.... |
|
Design Innovation Using Wood
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/design-innovati... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Web Page] ThinkWood This webinar explores innovative uses of wood in building design, focusing on mass timber and cross-laminated timber (CLT), and profile two unique projects that embody the aesthetic, environmental, and structural strengths of wood as a building material.... |
|
Building Resilience: Expanding the Concept of Sustainability
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/building-resili... [Environmental Performance] [Web Page] ThinkWood Building resilience is one of those concepts you read about and think, ‘Of course.’ It’s an obvious next step in the evolution of sustainable design, conceived to meet a critical need, just as green building itself can trace its beginning to the oil crisis of the 1970s and the need to reduce energy consumption.... |
|
Economic Benefits of Building with Wood
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/economic-benefi... [Economics/Costs] [Web Page] ThinkWood This presentation will discuss the economic, design, and structural benefits of building with wood, including mass timber products like cross-laminated timber and nail-laminated timber. For the learner, this course will provide an overview of the mass timber industry, the current environmentally responsible harvest strategy, and the financial benefits that building with softwood lumber provides.... |
|
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) - Innovative Solid Wood Panels Offer New Large-Scale Design Options
http://www.apawood.org/cross-laminated-timber... [General Information] [Web Page] APA Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a large-scale, prefabricated, solid engineered wood panel. Lightweight yet very strong, with superior acoustic, fire, seismic, and thermal performance, CLT is also fast and easy to install, generating almost no waste onsite. CLT offers design flexibility and low environmental impacts. For these reasons, cross-laminated timber is proving to be a highly advantageous alternative to conventional materials like concrete, masonry, or steel, especially in multi-family an... |
|
A feel-good factory
http://buildingandliving.storaenso.com/news/rethin... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] Stora Enso The new production site of SimonsVoss Technologies is built with cross-laminated timber from Stora Enso. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is not only good for its cost effectiveness and speedy process, the wide use of wood is also good for the employees working inside the buildings.... |
|
Future home building materials
http://buildingandliving.storaenso.com/news/rethin... [Markets] [Web Page] Stora Enso Stora Enso’s reputation dates back to 13th-century Sweden. Today, Stora Enso has leveraged its success by no longer solely focusing on the traditional pulp and paper industry but transforming itself into a value-creating renewable materials company focusing on growth markets.... |
|
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
http://buildingandliving.storaenso.com/news/rethin... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] Stora Enso Stora Enso Building Solutions have supplied CLT for London’s iconic Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. The much loved Theatre is a London landmark and a firm fixture of summer in the city, with more than 130,000 people attending performances between May and September. The auditorium is one of the largest in London with 1,240 seats, yet those who attend say it is also one of the most intimate.... |
|
Sans-Frontieres Elementary School
https://www.nordic.ca/en/projects/structures/sans-... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] 2014 Nordic Structures The Sans-Frontières elementary school houses a student body of 650 students, in 28 classrooms. This is the first school in Quebec to be built of glued-laminated elements, and benefits from the natural warmth and the natural human response to wood. In addition to its environmental sensitivity, wood provides inherent positive effects on students and teachers in scholastic settings.... |
|
Large-Scale Fire Demonstration
http://nordic.ca/en/documentation/publications/lar... [Fire Performance] [Web Page] 2015 Nordic Structures The fire demonstration was conducted on November 27, 2014 at National Research Council Canada’s large-scale fire test facility in Mississippi Mills, ON. The objective was to evaluate the fire safety performance of a cross-laminated timber stair/elevator shaft exposed to severe fire conditions for 2 hours.... |
|
CLT News Archives
http://www.crosslamaustralia.com.au/category/clt-n... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] CrossLam Australia ... |
© Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.