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29 May 2023
Norway: Former airport to become a school
Historic airport in Norway is transformed into a school – As a result of a competition to revitalize Oslo’s historical, decommissioned airport, the Bærum municipality will be getting a new school...
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29 May 2023
All-Wood Wrapped in a Steel ‘Rain Jacket’
Waechter Architecture has recently unveiled its latest project, Mississippi, which stands in Portland, Oregon as the Pacific Northwest’s first ‘All-Wood’ mixed-use mass timber development. After a decade of meticulous planning and investigation, this...
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29 May 2023
University of Canterbury promotes mass timber solutions
University of Canterbury PhD student in Structural Engineering Giada Formichetti recently took the opportunity for community #outreach today earlier this month at the University, talking about #lowdamage #posttensioned #timber buildings...
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23 May 2023
One for the Engineers – Buckling Restraint Design Information
Do you design mass timber projects? See this month’s Structure Magazine for an informative article with 3 case studies on using CoreBrace BRBs in mass timber structures. The article, written...
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Platinum Partners
23 May 2023
Mass Timber for Affordable Housing in Connecticut
All-CLT passive house, affordable housing in Connecticut – Sitting on a tight infill site at the corner of v-shaped intersecting streets Dixwell Avenue and Orchard Street in New Haven, CT...
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23 May 2023
Modular Homes using CLT – Forterra in Washington
Combining Mass Timber with Modularity – Seattle-based Forterra wants to reimagine affordable housing by using responsibly harvested mass timber and modular construction. Amid a national housing-shortage crisis, few states have...
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16 May 2023
Red Stag Timberlab: Video tour of New Zealand’s only purpose-built CLT plant
Red Stag: Take a tour with our specialists at our Rotorua CLT manufacturing Plant… Click here to view on the Red Stag website....
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16 May 2023
Acoustic Design Tools from Rothoblaas
Acoustic design for timber buildings can be a tricky subject at the best of times – made harder when there is a lack of information from product suppliers. To help...
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The Lighter Side
16 May 2023
(NZ) New Builds set to Pay for Climate Change
Plans to cap climate pollution from new buildings – Both residential and commercial new builds would be subject to proposed regulations of climate pollution in the construction and operation of...
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16 May 2023
Shake Test Follow up: Here’s what Happened in San Diego
As you may have read in last week’s issue, last Tuesday (USA time), the researchers simulated two of the largest earthquakes in recent decades — the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that...
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09 May 2023
Adam Jones Interview on Atlassian Build
(Australia) In this episode of WoodSolutions Timber Talks, Adam Jones sit down with Ninotschka Titchkosky, co-CEO of BVNExternal link, to discuss the groundbreaking Atlassian TowerExternal link. As the world’s tallest...
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09 May 2023
NZTA Re-Consider Wooden Bridges for Roads
NZ embraces glulam with first timber bridge design in 50 years – On the Hauraki plains there is a symbol of hope for the possible return of glulam bridges to...
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09 May 2023
Global Audit of Top 139 Timber Buildings
The State of Tall Timber: A Global Audit – This data study represents the significant recent momentum of the mass-timber movement worldwide. There are now 139 mass timber buildings around...
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09 May 2023
Shake Table Testing of a Full-Scale 10 Story Building
In San Diego, CA, construction is nearing completion for Shake Table Testing of A Full-Scale Resilient 10-Story Mass-Timber Building. It was planned for late April, so the information should be available...
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02 May 2023
Red Stag Delivers Engineered Wood for Another ‘Living Building’ Challenge Project
Red Stag TimberLab was proud to be involved in the new Pā Reo development for Te Wānanga o Raukawa. Te Wānanga o Raukawa is a Māori tertiary education provider established...
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02 May 2023
Wood and Wine go Well Together – Have a Look
The challenge was to use wood in winery to create an immersive experience in this latest case study. Nga Waka’s new winery is all about delivering an immersive cellar door...
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02 May 2023
Think Wood Produce Some Awesome Resources
Mass timber is going mainstream. Whether it’s cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber, dowel-laminated timber (DLT), or glued-laminated timber (glulam), more and more clients are looking for design and sub-consultant teams...
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02 May 2023
Ten Years After – Shigeru Ban led Timber Taller
(Dezeen) Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland’s first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of...
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26 Apr 2023
Australia: New Database for Mass Timber Exemplar Projects
In Australia and around the world, timber is being used in an ever-widening range of building projects. From residential and commercial to educational, aged care and healthcare, the advantages of...
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26 Apr 2023
Timber’s Tallest 7 Achievements Globally
As the global construction industry consciously moves towards low embodied carbon materials to reduce their carbon footprint, there is increasing interest in engineered wood or mass timber products for the...
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26 Apr 2023
‘Green’ Gantry First
Stationary toll systems on motorways have been made of aluminium or steel for decades. Now, Kapsch TrafficCom partnering with the HASSLACHER Group, have developed an innovative hybrid solution based on...
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26 Apr 2023
Bits and Bobs – Ultra Thin Materials can Heat Homes
When humans are cold, we put on a jacket—or bump up the thermostat. When we’re hot, we shed a layer—or bump up the air conditioner. But what if our buildings...
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18 Apr 2023
AUT A1 Building Tour
Event Details: AUT’s A1 building, set for completion in 2024, is the first step in the university’s masterplan to reinvigorate the North Campus, providing a new social and academic heart....
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18 Apr 2023
Here’s an Office we’d all Love to Work in
Bjergsted Financial Park is the new head office for SR-Bank in the centre of Stavanger. The bank’s unique position in the area will be strengthened through its new location in...
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18 Apr 2023
Hybrid Wood and Steel Building – Using Each Material for its Strengths
Limberlost Place, the new George Brown College campus. Incredible design by Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects Inc. Engineered by Fast + Epp, being brought to life by...
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18 Apr 2023
Sydney Developer goes tall with Timber
Sydney’s low office occupancy rates could get a much-needed boost after a private property developer won the backing of investment specialist Merricks Capital to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber...
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11 Apr 2023
University of Newcastle by Binderholz
Binderholz: Innovative in more than one way – The ‘Q Building’ of the University of Newcastle | AUS was built with CLT BBS, glulam and 3-layer solid wood panels. We...
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11 Apr 2023
Mass Timber, but not as we know it in New Zealand
(Tasmania) Timber is more than a building material, it is a resource that connects nature with design. As so beautifully curated by John Wardle Architects for the University of Tasmania’s...
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11 Apr 2023
Raising the Roof at Airports – Portland style
From its conception, the new mass timber roof at Portland International Airport in Oregon state was meant to evoke a walk through a Pacific Northwest forest. Wood for the impressive...
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11 Apr 2023
Think Wood
Why is mass timber becoming one of the most sought-after building materials in the world? Not only is it incredibly strong, fire resistant and adaptable, but it’s also so much...
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