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28 Nov 2023
Timber Arch Sets Record for Size
On its completion in early 2025, Studio Pacific Architecture’s new flagship hangar for Air New Zealand — Hangar 4 in Auckland — will be the largest single-span timber arch aircraft hangar in the southern...
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New
28 Nov 2023
Introducing Digibuild
DigiBuild™ – New service ALERT …well, we’ve been offering this for a while, but we want to give this ‘string to our bow’ a more distinct profile. Our DigiBuild™ service...
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New
28 Nov 2023
Affordable Housing in CLT Looks Grand!
(Vancouver, Canada) CLT production is underway for 1766 Frances Street “KHUPKHAHPAY’AY”. This 9-story passive house structure will provide 81 affordable housing units for the indigenous community in Vancouver, and replaces...
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New
28 Nov 2023
(Japan) Ingenious Element for Fire Design for CLT
Low-Cost, Long-Span Fire-Resistant Wood Construction Technology: O･Mega Wood (FR) – In technical cooperation with Shelter Co, Obayashi Corporation has developed a wood construction technology that allows the construction of fire-resistant...
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Platinum Partners
21 Nov 2023
Going up: Sydney Tall Timber Building Underway – Atlassian Central
Steel and concrete megaframe supports free-standing, three-floor CLT megafloors to create world’s tallest hybrid timber tower in Sydney, Australia. The 39-storey development, currently under construction and located in the Tech...
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21 Nov 2023
US Army Mandates Mass Timber Consideration
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requiring a mass timber structural option to be considered at the design stage of all of its vertical construction projects going forward. The...
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21 Nov 2023
Mass Timber for New Airport Terminal Sourced Locally
(Oregon, USA) Portland’s new airport terminal looks like it’s from the future—but it’s built out of wood. All the wood for the 9-acre roof was sourced from within 300 miles...
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21 Nov 2023
NEW: UK resource for fire safety engineering
A recent post from Timber Development UK focused on their final timber engineering webinar for the year – Engineering for fire safety. The webinar covered the essential principles of engineering...
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14 Nov 2023
Mass Timber Apartments by Enovate for K-O
Enovate: We are thrilled to share the remarkable progress made this week as we erected the very first LVL portal frames for the Highbury Triangle Building B Mass Timber apartment. ...
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14 Nov 2023
Boost for Local CLT Capacity
New Zealand’s biggest fans of mass timber, glulam and CLT, the team at Red Stag Timberlab have continued to add production capacity with their latest installations at their Rotorua factory....
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14 Nov 2023
Christchurch Court Theatre: Photo Gallery
The new Court Theatre is a three-storey building fronting on the corners of Colombo and Gloucester Streets in Christchurch’s CBD, forming part of the new Christchurch Performing Arts Precinct. Some...
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14 Nov 2023
High-Capacity CLT Shear Walls Webinar This Week
The Timber Design Society invite you to watch the 10th webinar of the 2023 series with Ben Moerman presenting on High-Capacity CLT Shear Walls. Ben is a structural engineer at StructureCraft, who will...
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14 Nov 2023
Canada: Capitalising on the Rise of Mass Timber
Rise of mass timber – Mass timber accounted for 1% of all building construction materials in North America last year. The global mass timber market reached $1.6 billion in 2022...
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14 Nov 2023
Spiral Staircase Showcasing CLT Stands Nicely
Looking GOOD – A unique steel timber hybrid spiral staircase with CLT fence in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The design team spent hundreds of hours on the digital modeling and figuring out...
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07 Nov 2023
Creativity Celebrated at the Timber Design Awards
Timber building projects from across New Zealand were celebrated at the 2023 Timber Design Awards. ‘Collectively the winning projects shine a light on the role that wood construction can play...
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07 Nov 2023
One for the Architects: Christmas Gift Ideas
Are you hard to buy for at Christmas? Or want to treat yourself this year? Here are a couple of our strongest recommendations: For Architects: Buy Constructing Health, by Tye Farrow How...
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07 Nov 2023
USA: Timber Tops the Market says T3 Developer
Mass Timber Is Proving Its Value – There’s growing evidence that mass timber buildings are providing a strong return on investment when it comes to higher building values and commanding...
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07 Nov 2023
Another one for the Engineers
(Canada) FP Innovations release: New guide on mass timber diaphragms – Interest in mid-rise and high-rise mass timber buildings has created a need for more rigorous structural analysis and design...
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03 Nov 2023
Job Opportunity: Senior Account Manager – NZ & USA
Taranakipine are leaders in the design and manufacture of value-added wood products. They pride themselves in understanding customers’ needs, manufacturing to industry best practice and servicing customers with quality products....
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31 Oct 2023
Update on the Court Theatre Construction in Christchurch
Christchurch City Council: Here’s your latest update on construction of The Court Theatre – you can see the first truss being craned into position in what will be the main...
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31 Oct 2023
NZ Timber Design Awards are Back for 2023
Since 1975, professionals across the New Zealand construction sector have been celebrating timber design and its usage and on November 2nd 2023, the Timber Design Awards can once again be...
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31 Oct 2023
Go-to Software Tools for Mass Timber Structural Analysis
Ricky McLain, WoodWorks US: Who doesn’t love a good excel file or software tool to speed up our iterative design process as structural engineers? But, it’s extremely important that we...
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31 Oct 2023
Stockholm Planning an Entire Neighbourhood of Wood
The future direction of sustainability is in advanced planning on a new scale seen worldwide. An entire new city about sustainability creating a sense of community, a walkable urban city...
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24 Oct 2023
From Sweden to Mt Albert: Mass Timber Modular Housing
From Sweden to Ōwairaka: First of three modular timber housing blocks go up Evergreen Modular Construction claims to be the first company of its type in New Zealand, aiming to...
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24 Oct 2023
C6 Mass Timber Tower Approved for Perth
JUST APPROVED – The World record-breaking C6 Perth mass timber skyscraper standing 51 stories or 191 m tall. It’s a $350 million carbon-negative residential high-rise that will have 237 apartments,...
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24 Oct 2023
Maintaining Mass Timber Surface Quality Post-Construction
The struggle to maintain a nice finish on massive timber surfaces costs time and money. Unwrap your elements and UV and water will quickly yellow and stain a pristine timber...
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24 Oct 2023
US WoodWorks Program Active and Growing
Ricky McLain, Mass Timber Structural Engineer & Tall Mass Timber Specialist at WoodWorks US: The growth of mass timber use in the US has many attributable stakeholders. Developers who seek...
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17 Oct 2023
THIS WEEK: Internationally Renowned Architect Tours NZ with Lecture Series
Tye Farrow is a world-recognised pioneer tackling how what we create either gives or cause health. With award-winning projects around the globe that enact salutogenic design – design that actively...
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17 Oct 2023
Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre Progress
Hutt City Council welcomed a visit from Chief Executive of Crown Infrastructure Partners Graham Mitchell on Friday to see the amazing progress being made on the Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre. The...
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17 Oct 2023
Timberlink Media Release: First CLT Panel
NeXTimber by Timberlink Presses First CLT Panel, Begins Taking Orders Timberlink’s NeXTimber facility has pressed its very first Cross Laminated Timber(CLT) panel, marking another significant milestone in the construction of...
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