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26 Sep 2023
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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26 Sep 2023
Portland Airport – A Mass Timber Dream Come True
The showpiece of the new main terminal for the beloved Portland International Airport is a stunning mass timber roof that both celebrates Oregon’s history of forest product innovation and serves...
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New
26 Sep 2023
The Living Pā – Open Day
Join Mid-Rise Wood Construction at Victoria University of Wellington’s Open Day and experience the future of innovation at the Living Pā! WHEN: Thursday 5th October 2023, 3:00pm to 5:00pm The...
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26 Sep 2023
New Name in Mass Timber: Mercer
Mercer Mass Timber presents ‘The Postmark’. The Postmark demonstrates the potential for mass timber to create elegant and sustainable buildings and to introduce significant construction efficiencies through prefabrication and deeper...
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Platinum Partners
19 Sep 2023
Wesbeam Played Major Role in Western Sydney Airport Visitor Centre
Wesbeam played a major role in the mass timber construction of the Western Sydney Airport Visitor Centre (WSAVC) as part of the project team. Wesbeam’s Tall Timber Building Systems team...
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19 Sep 2023
CLT Design Tool Launched using Spreadsheet Tools
In North America this month we noted the launch of a CLT design tool developed by structural engineering firm Equilibrium. The interactive spreadsheet helps engineers design CLT floors, roofs, and...
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19 Sep 2023
How to Design a Timber Building to Code in a Seismic Region
In the first instalment of their PMX 15 series, Kristen Slaven along with co-writers Mark Bauernhuber and Lily Huang describe the design choices that would help their timber building withstand...
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19 Sep 2023
Just How Good is Wood?
Just How Good is Wood? ~ Carbon accountants have some tough questions, and some surprising answers. By Mark Harris If there’s one mantra that has anchored the environmental movement since its inception, it’s...
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15 Sep 2023
WoodWorks North Conference – FREE Parking Instructions
If you are registered to attend the WoodWorks North Conference 2023 you will be pleased to know that FREE car parking is available at Sky Stadium for conference attendees. This...
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12 Sep 2023
Job Opportunity: Mass Timber CAD/CAM Technician
Offsite Design Ltd is offering a unique opportunity to work on a wide variety of mass timber buildings with a passionate bunch of people. Domestic and international projects. Offsite Design...
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12 Sep 2023
Mass Timber Apartments Overcome Site Limitations
Alexan Access Apartments – The Alexan Access Apartments is a new 383-unit apartment complex just south of Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, WA. Strouse Davis worked closely with the developers, a...
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12 Sep 2023
Shigeru Ban Reveals CLT Design for Ukrainian Hospital
Japanese architecture studio Shigeru Ban Architects, along with Voluntary Architects’ Network has presented designs for a new extension for a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The hospital...
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12 Sep 2023
Mass Timber, But Not as we Know it for Notre Dame
Rebuilding Notre Dame’s fire-ravaged roof transports workers back to Middle Ages – If time travel was possible, medieval carpenters would surely be amazed to see how woodworking techniques they pioneered...
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05 Sep 2023
The Future is Looking Up. Literally – The Evolution of Portland International Airport
The approximately $2 Billion Portland International Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment Project, located in Portland, OR, is led by the Port of Portland as owner, with a design team featuring ZGF...
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05 Sep 2023
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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05 Sep 2023
CWC Report Reinforces Safety of Mass Timber Demonstration Fire Tests Results
The findings from Canada’s most extensive mass timber demonstration fire tests project led by the Canadian Wood Council (CWC) have been finalized in a comprehensive report titled: Large-Scale Fire Tests...
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05 Sep 2023
Recent Growth of Mass Timber in North America
Until recently, there were stringent regulations that limited the construction of mass timber buildings. Once limited to five or six stories, efforts to change building codes now allow buildings constructed...
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29 Aug 2023
Christchurch ‘The Court Theatre’ Project Update
Christchurch City Council: Here’s your latest look at how The Court Theatre project is tracking. Our contractors are installing six large LVL portal frames! LVL stands for Laminated Veneer Lumber,...
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29 Aug 2023
Södra CLT Plant Scale is Immense
After the first pilot plant for the CLT production, Södra Building Systems made another bolt move and built a big volume plant. This is the 2nd complete Turnkey CLT Line...
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29 Aug 2023
Is Mass Timber too “Bouncy” For Floors in Labs and Life Sciences Buildings?
One of the building types which has yet to see significant adoption of mass timber is labs and life sciences buildings. Is this due to the presence of equipment which...
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29 Aug 2023
Practical Mass Timber Site Visit Tour in Toronto
Have you ever been inside a mass timber building under construction? Well now is your chance—and you won’t even need your hard hat or steel toes for this site visit! ...
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29 Aug 2023
Welcome to a Massive Mass Timber Project Database
The WoodWorks Innovation Network is an online community created by WoodWorks US to facilitate collaboration among professionals using innovative wood building systems and technologies. Click here to view the project...
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29 Aug 2023
Canadian Aerospace Showcase in Wood
(BC) KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence – Mass Timber Spreads its Wings The vision for the building’s iconic mass timber structure all started with a simple napkin sketch by KF...
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22 Aug 2023
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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22 Aug 2023
Get to the Truth of Timber
“They say there are gaps in timber knowledge. We say we’ve cracked it.” That’s the message from Timber Unlimited, whose newly launched website has just made the use of timber...
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22 Aug 2023
Mass Timber Benefits go Beyond Sustainability
Early Results in World’s Biggest Test of Its Kind Raise Possibility of More West Coast Timber Projects – Buildings made from wood have long provided a warm, aesthetically pleasing atmosphere,...
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22 Aug 2023
Timber Bridge Showcase in NYC
New timber bridge extends high line landscape in New York City: The High Line–Moynihan Connector bridge’s use of glulam evokes both nature and rail infrastructure while reducing embodied carbon. The...
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22 Aug 2023
Cross Laminated Timber Turns 100
It is not readily known, as it is thought of as modern technology, but Cross-Laminated Timber is actually 100 years old as of yesterday. The patent that describes the technology...
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15 Aug 2023
Launceston Home to New Healthy CLT Building
Tasmania: Launceston’s mass timber building a glimpse into the built environment future – The new headquarters for health insurance company St Luke’s Health is a building ahead of its time....
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15 Aug 2023
Castle Hill Bach in Wood Wins ADNZ Award
Baches, cribs and holiday homes that capture a spirit of the outdoors and adventure have to be the best. Especially when they feature natural materials like wood. This week we’ve...
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