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Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/showAllCit... [Seismic Performance] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2013 Ario Ceccotti, Carmen Sandhaas, Minoru Okabe, Motoi Yasumura, Chikahiro Minowa, Naohito Kawai Multi‐storey buildings made of cross‐laminated timber panels (X‐lam) are becoming a stronger and economically valid alternative in Europe compared with traditional masonry or concrete buildings. During the design process of these multi‐storey buildings, also their earthquake behaviour has to be addressed, especially in seismic‐prone areas such as Italy. However, limited knowledge on the seismic performance is available for this innovative massive timber product.... |
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Shaking-table test of a cross-laminated timber structure
https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680... [Seismic Performance] [Journal Article] 2015 Georg Flatscher, Gerhard Schickhofer Shaking-table tests that were performed on a three-storey cross-laminated timber structure using full-scale structural elements without vertical joints. The tests were conducted at Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil in Lisbon, Portugal, under the European Union Series project. The setup, which includes the geometry, connection technique and building instrumentation that was installed to record the behaviour of the cross-laminated timber structure during the tests, and the building design a... |
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2011 WSS Archive | 2011 UMass Wood Structures Symposium
http://www.woodstructuressymposium.com/program/201... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Presentation] 2011 Multiple Presentations covered net-zero energy technology, environmental benefits of using wood and new, innovative wood building systems. Two afternoon workshops focused on detailing essentials such as thermal, moisture and acoustic issues, air tightness, and indoor air quality and ventilation. In addition, an exciting new wood product out of Europe, called Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), was showcased. Experts from both North America and Austria presented the essentials in achieving energy efficiency an... |
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August 2017 | Bensonwood
http://bensonwood.com/2017/08... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Presentation] 2017 Rick Reynolds The first hardwood cross-laminated timber project in the United States, dubbed “Conversation Plinth,” and five other installations will form the centerpiece at “Exhibit Columbus,” an annual celebration of architecture, art, design and community in Columbus, IN. This year’s Exhibit Columbus will run from August 26 through November 26, 2017. A unique installation, “Conversation Plinth” is a collaboration between IKD, a Boston-based architectural design firm, Bensonwood, a structural wood enginee... |
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Multifamily | Think Wood
https://www.thinkwood.com/opportunities-for-wood/m... [Design/Architectural aspects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] Think Wood Market Opportunities: Multifamily Coming out of the economic downturn, the multifamily housing market has remained healthy, and experts like the economists on Freddie Mac Multifamily’s research team project it to remain healthy for the foreseeable future.... |
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How Wood Can Maximize the Value of Multi-Story Projects
https://www.thinkwood.com/news/maximize-multi-stor... [Economics/Costs] [Web Page] 2018 ThinkWood In this four part series, learn about three common design configurations for wood-frame multi-story projects: tuck-under, wrap around and podium. Each article gives you practical ideas and tips on how to maximize the value of your next multi-story project by using wood and one or more of these building types.... |
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2018 NDS Changes: American Wood Council Webinar
https://www.thinkwood.com/news/2018-nds-changes-am... [Other] [Web Page] 2018 ThinkWood American Wood Council hosts free monthly webinars for code officials, architects, structural engineers, developers and others with an interest in wood building design.... |
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WoodWorks: Nailed-it! Introducing the Design Guide for Nail-Laminated Timber
https://www.thinkwood.com/news/woodworks-nailed-in... [Other] [Web Page] 2018 ThinkWood Growing interest in mass timber has led to increased use not only of cross-laminated timber, but nail-laminated timber (NLT or nail-lam)—a lesser known but more common material option. NLT is created by fastening pieces of dimension lumber, stacked on edge, into one structural element with nails or screws. It offers a unique aesthetic, flexibility of form, fast erection and a light carbon footprint, and is a cost-effective option for designers looking to expose wood structure.... |
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Structural Wood Building Systems: Choosing the right material for a sustainable,
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/structural-wood... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood Whether designing for light frame or mass timber structural systems, project teams that opt for wood can benefit from the material’s versatility, sustainable supply chain, benefits to occupants, as well as thermal, acoustic, seismic and fire performance. Wood can also help to maximize value through gains made in square footage and building height.... |
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A Roadmap to Tall Timber Structures: Design, Approval, Construction
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/roadmap-to-tall... [Tall Buildings] [Web Page] ThinkWood A movement is growing to use heavy and mass timber as primary structural materials for medium-height and tall buildings, in large part because timber is renewable, stores carbon and is energy efficient.... |
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Rethinking Wood as a Material of Choice: Costs Less, Delivers More
https://www.thinkwood.com/our-ceus/rethinking-wood... [General Information] [Web Page] ThinkWood Designers today are finding new possibilities in one of the oldest building materials on earth. Wood has always been valued for its beauty, abundance and practicality, but many of wood’s inherent characteristics are rising to very current challenges. Wood’s traditional values and newest technologies meet in the projects presented in this course, illustrating the advantages of wood to in four areas.... |
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A New StructureCraft Facility - Abbotsford, BC
https://structurecraft.com/projects/new-structurec... [Case Study/Projects] [Web Page] StructureCraft StructureCraft is excited to announce that it has started manufacturing Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT), the only All Wood mass timber product in North America in our new 50,000sqft facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia. The new facility, a model of engineering efficiency, sets a new standard in industrial building design with wood.... |
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NHLA Blog - First Hardwood CLT Project in the U.S.
http://www.nhla.com/blog/tags/hardwood%20clt/rss... [Raw Materials] [Web Page] NHLA In an effort to enhance awareness around using wood as an innovative building material, The United States Forest Service awarded Boston based architectural firm, IKD, $250,000 to fund the construction of the first hardwood cross laminated timber (CLT) project in the United States. The Indiana Hardwood CLT Project uses low-grade hardwood to create a high quality CLT product that will then be used in commercial projects. NHLA is honored to have helped IKD with this project and would like to recog... |
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Ambient vibration tests of a cross-laminated timber building
https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680... [Vibration/Acoustic Performance] [Conference Paper] 2015 Thomas Reynolds, Richard Harris Cross-laminated timber has, in the last 6 years, been used for the first time to form shear walls and cores in multi-storey buildings of seven storeys or more. Such buildings can have low mass in comparison to conventional structural forms. This low mass means that, as cross-laminated timber is used for taller buildings still, their dynamic movement under wind load is likely to be a key design parameter. An understanding of dynamic lateral stiffness and damping, which has so far been insufficien... |
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Fire performance of metal-free timber connections
https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680... [Fire Performance] [Conference Paper] 2015 Daniel Brandon, Cristian Maluk, Marin P. Ansell The fire performance of heavy timber frame structures is often limited by the poor fire performance of its connections. Conventional timber connections, dowelled or toothed plate connections typically use steel as a connector material. In a fire, the steel parts rapidly conduct heat into the timber, leading to reduced fire performance. Replacing metallic connectors with alternative non-metallic, low thermal conductivity connector materials can, therefore, lead to improved connection performance ... |
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Concrete upgrade to improve the vibration response of timber floors
https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680... [Vibration/Acoustic Performance] [Conference Paper] 2015 Jonathan Skinner, Carlos Martins, Julie Bregulla Timber floors suffering from poor serviceability performance can be upgraded with a concrete topping to form a timber–concrete composite. The upgrade stiffens the floor, reducing the perception of a vibration response to dynamic excitation. Despite timber–concrete composites becoming an established research area in recent years, relatively little is known about the vibration response of these floor types. This paper explores how the vibration response of a timber floor changes when upgraded with... |
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Commercial Projects
https://www.hyne.com.au/solutions-centre/builders-... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] Hyne Timber Our specialised Commercial Projects Team has over 35 years of experience supplying mass timber solutions. This experience enables us to deliver structures with fabrication and connection methods that benefit both the design and construction phases.... |
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Maryborough Fire Station Development – A Showpiece of Local, Engineered Timber |
https://www.hyne.com.au/article/117/maryborough-fi... [Case Study/Projects] [Magazine/Newspaper Article] 2017 Hyne Timber What better way to showcase the many qualities of engineered timber, including fire compliance in contemporary building design than a new Fire Station?... |
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Logiciels
https://www.nordic.ca/fr/documentation/logiciels... [Commercial/Company Information] [Web Page] Nordic Structures ... |
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Timber in a New Dimension - Finger-Joint
http://www.derix.de/service/lexikon/keilzinkung... [Connectors] [Web Page] DERIX Finger-jointing is used for the manufacturing for large glulam beams. In order to produce highly efficient glulam beams, graded lamellas of kiln dried timber go through the finger-jointing machine, where a finger profile of approximately 20 mm is machined in each end of the material. Then an appropriate structural adhesive is added and the finger joints of the laminates are moulded and glued together under pressure to form an endless board. A major advantage of finger-jointing is that the lengt... |
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