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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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15 Aug 2023

Timber Development UK Guide to Timber Typologies

Timber Typologies clears up the confusion around timber building systems and their applications. It brings clarity and consistency to the variety of timber systems and options – for policy makers...
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15 Aug 2023

Largest Timber City Development in Stockholm

(Sweden) The largest ‘wooden city’ in the world is going up in Stockholm. Spanning 25 blocks, 30 sustainable mass timber buildings will add 7,000 new offices and 2,000 new homes....
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08 Aug 2023

WoodWorks Conference Site Visit Announced: Living Pa at Victoria University, Wellington

One of the most exciting mass timber projects is the Living Pa facility at Victoria University Wellington. After 2 years the building is rising fast with mass timber structures now...
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08 Aug 2023

Net-Zero Timber Building Showcase for Sustainability

A new government office building under construction in San Mateo County, in California’s Silicon Valley region, promises to be the nation’s first net-zero-energy civic structure made from mass timber. A...
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08 Aug 2023

Australia – EWP Imports Rebound, Revert to Mean

Australia’s total imports of engineered wood products (EWP) were valued at AUD331.2 million on a free-on-board (FOB) basis, year-ended May 2023. The result saw the value of annual imports down...
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08 Aug 2023

Timber Concrete Hybrid Flooring System Tested

A patented hybrid timber floor system (HTFS) by EllisDon Construction and DIALOG has completed small-scale and fire testing and is now moving on to large-scale tests in Vancouver. The HTFS...
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08 Aug 2023

US – Test Building Performs Well

California: One sunny May morning, an earthquake jolted a small area of San Diego. Minutes later, another temblor hit, causing a 10-story wood building to sway.  The quakes were intentional,...
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01 Aug 2023

New Cultural Hub in Tauranga gets Final Green Light

Congratulations to Tauranga City Council and the entire project team, on the final green light to forge ahead with Te Manawataki o Te Papa – a vibrant new cultural hub...
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01 Aug 2023

Mass Timber for Schools: Waimea College Leads the Way

The development of 15 new teaching spaces at Waimea College led to early discussions with the Ministry of Education from the design team requesting the opportunity to explore a mass...
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01 Aug 2023

Australian CLT Icon Finalist in World Architecture Awards

Tasmanian Entrant Shortlisted For World Architecture Festival 2023 Award – Iron Creek Bay Farm Stay shortlisted for coveted award showcases benefits of XLam’s CLT. Iron Creek Bay Farm Stay, an...
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01 Aug 2023

Mass Timber Warehouse Makes Massive Carbon Impact

The USAA Industrial Warehouse is a one-story, Type V-B warehouse building with CLT walls integrated with a structural steel frame. Timberlab was brought on to help with the design-assist and...
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01 Aug 2023

Tall Timber Building Guide Resources Updated

(Canada) A significant opportunity to reduce Canada’s and the world’s carbon footprint is through sustainable construction. FPInnovations has been putting a great deal of effort into facilitating the use of...
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26 Jul 2023

5 Solutions to Acoustics Issues for Mass Timber Buildings

5 solutions to acoustic issues in mass timber buildings: Acoustic experts explain why noise is often a problem for mass timber projects—and how to address it. Mass timber’s Achilles heel:...
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26 Jul 2023

Have Your Say: Green Building Council Consultation

Following months of consultation, the hard work of the Technical Expert Reference Panels, and review by the Green Star Advisory Committee, we’ve released the first draft of Green Star Buildings...
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26 Jul 2023

Canada: Government Supports New Mass Timber Building

Government of Canada Supports Groundbreaking Mass Timber Building Construction  – Being energy-efficient, having inherent fire resistance, and with an ability to sequester carbon dioxide, mass timber has revolutionized Canada’s construction industry....
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26 Jul 2023

Could Mass Timber Solve the US Housing Crisis?

Sustainable, aesthetically pleasing and efficient to construct, mass timber could be an attractive option for an uncertain market – With record numbers of homelessness, a cost-of-living panic and a prevalent...
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18 Jul 2023

Building for Climate Change

The Building and Construction sector is responsible for 15 per cent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions (excluding biogenic methane), and will play an important role in achieving...
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18 Jul 2023

Construction Constraint: Labour not Materials

Mid-sized construction firms have weathered escalating costs better on this side of the Tasman than their Australian counterparts, with lack of workers their biggest challenge. An MYOB survey of 274...
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18 Jul 2023

BC Mass Timber Manufacturer Sold

British Columbia-based Structurlam purchased by Mercer International – The Okanagan company that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year is now part of a larger BC company. Last week, Structurlam Mass...
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18 Jul 2023

Fireshield Introduces Treated Panel to Meet Code

New from Fireshield, the Frontwood Panel represents a groundbreaking innovation in timber panels, offering a superior level of fire protection and environmental sustainability. This CLT style panel has been treated...
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18 Jul 2023

Mass Timber or Mega Beam – You Decide

Two bridges for East Tyrol, Austria – The popular cycle path along the river Drau, which leads from Dobbiaco in Italy over 366 km to Villach, has been enriched by...
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11 Jul 2023

Red Stag Timberlab adds Capacity

Last year in August, after over six decades in McIntosh family ownership, TimberLab Solutions was purchased by Red Stag Group following a share sale completed last week. Their team was...
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11 Jul 2023

XLam AirStairs Quick to Install

XLam CLT AirStairs are a popular product that support rapid construction and greener buildings.  AirStair is cheaper, lightweight and much quicker to install than conventional precast concrete stairs. Supplied ready to...
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11 Jul 2023

Yokohama is Home to Japan’s Tallest All-Wooden Building

The new mass timber project reached completion in in March after two years of construction. Port Plus is a 44-meter tall, 11-story office/hotel building constructed by Obayashi Corporation. All of the...
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11 Jul 2023

Mass Timber Impact Analysis

(Canada) Mantle Developments created a case study on the Canadian Nuclear Lab’s recent mass timber demonstration projects at their Chalk River campus in eastern Ontario. At the time of construction,...
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04 Jul 2023

Warehouse Case Study – Wood IS Good

Mass Timber in Hybrid Industrial Developments: Halcyon Warehouse Case Study – A current project being built in South Auckland by Robert Cunningham Construction for local company Halcyon, showcases the use...
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04 Jul 2023

NTU Mass Timber Building Officially Opened

(Singapore) ‘Like entering a forest’: Inside Asia’s largest timber building — A new six-story college campus building stands as Singapore’s latest ode to nature. Home to Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU)...
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04 Jul 2023

Case Study: Achieving Lower Floor Depths in Tall Buildings

A new connection technology is being used for OWOW’s latest tall timber building in mass timber at 1510 Webster Project site in Oakland, California. The product is called PILLAR. It’s...
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04 Jul 2023

Trust Woodspan to Make Life Easier

Woodspan making life easier — Whether you’re working on a new build or you have townhouse developments in the works, it helps to know what your options are when it...
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04 Jul 2023

FUN FACT: Wood Makes a Nice Bike

If wood is strong enough for buildings and furniture, why not use it for bicycles too? That’s pretty much the thought process that led Masateru Yasuda to design the Moccle,...
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27 Jun 2023

World’s Tallest Hybrid Timber Tower Enters Next Development Phase

A 52-storey commercial office tower planned for the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets in central Sydney, is set to become the world’s tallest hybrid timber building. It will cover approximately 51,000...
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27 Jun 2023

North America’s First Underground Mass Timber Parking Lot

A new mid-rise, mixed-use building project on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia will boast North America’s first underground mass timber structure for vehicle parking, according to Massive Canada Building...
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27 Jun 2023

A Second Look: Impressive Diagonal Roof to come at Limberlost Place

(Toronto) Flashy features emerge as timber-framed Limberlost Place rises on Queens Quay on Toronto’s waterfront. The last six months of construction have seen notable progress in bringing George Brown College’s...
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27 Jun 2023

UK: Government Sets Modular Home Standards

The UK Government plans to standardise modern methods of construction (MMC) would remove barriers to innovation, one of the participants in a new initiative has told Construction News. Plans to...
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20 Jun 2023

Clearwater: Showcase for Sequestration

The first of its kind, Red Stag Investment’s Clearwater Quays — a new mid-rise apartment building in Christchurch’s prestigious Clearwater development — is a case study on the benefits of...
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20 Jun 2023

Innovative Hybrid Bow-Stringer Beam

Located in the beautiful state of Oregon, the Medford Rogue Credit Union building mass timber project is an impressive building that features notable materials and design elements. The building includes...
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20 Jun 2023

Got 2 Minutes to Learn About PLT?

Check it out – An architect and builder talk about the practical advantages they have realised through designing and installing mass timber floor panels rather than concrete. Sustainable Mass Timber...
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20 Jun 2023

The Role of Mass Timber in a Biogenic Materials Revolution

The Biogenic Materials Revolution Has Begun and Mass Timber Is Leading the Way – Over the next 40 years, the global construction rate is predicted to reach approximately one New York...
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13 Jun 2023

The Living Pa (VUM): Impressive Double-T Floor-Beam Components

Red Stag: This is a really cool project to be part of. Red Stag Wood Solutions Limited supplying the CLT/GLT box beams, wing beams, floors and more. Built to meet...
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13 Jun 2023

NZIA Award Win for Flock Hill Homestead

Flanked by mountains, nestled into limestone rock formations and looking across Lake Pearson to a perfectly symmetrical view of Sugarloaf Mountain is FLOCKHILL Homestead, designed by Warren and Mahoney. “FLOCKHILL...
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13 Jun 2023

Gallery: Award-Winning Hybrid Multi-Family Apartments Design and Build

(Oregon) Central Lofts was among the pioneers of mass timber multi-family developments in the City of Portland. Located at the base of the iconic St. Johns Bridge, the four-story, 30-unit...
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13 Jun 2023

Case Study: Adding Mass Timber Extension/Renovations for Old Buildings

(Boston) How do you add a 2-story vertical addition onto an existing 3-story, 100-year-old brick and timber building in Boston’s seaport district, which is not exactly square or plumb, and...
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13 Jun 2023

Winning Design to Meet Ambitious Social and Environmental Standards

Haptic Architects and PIR2 have won a competition to design a new school and cultural centre for the Bærum municipality, creating a bold new landmark building on the site of Oslo’s decommissioned airport, for an emerging neighbourhood in Fornebu. The competition attracted 29...
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06 Jun 2023

Techlam – One for the Children

An inspiring design which, being a circular building with many wood beams brought the Techlam team plenty of challenges. Design for inspiration (Our Challenge) – Smith Architects purpose designed a...
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06 Jun 2023

Amsterdam Plans to Build up to 30 Modular Schools from Wood

A group called The Circlewood consortium, a collective of architects, engineers, builders and researchers, has designed a modular building concept that will act as the basis for up to 30 schools...
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06 Jun 2023

Designing The Ecology School to Meet LBC

This non-profit residential learning center works to link human and natural systems through immersive learning experiences for children and adults, making the purposeful use of wood construction and finish materials...
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06 Jun 2023

Mass Timber for UNDER ARMOUR’s New Headquarters

(Baltimore, Maryland, US) Under Armour’s new global headquarters building in Baltimore’s Port Covington reaffirms the company’s long-term resilience commitment. The proposed building, constructed almost entirely of mass timber, aims to...
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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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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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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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04 Apr 2023

Law Changed to Protect Subcontractors

Thursday, 30 March 2023 9:16 am | New Zealand Government Press ReleaseTags: Parliament, Employment, Newsworthy, General Politics, Legislation. Hon Dr Megan Woods Minister for Building and Construction · Ensures strict...
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04 Apr 2023

WoodWorks Christchurch Conference gets top marks

After hosting our popular WoodWorks NZ conferences since 2016 either in the North Island or virtual, our first conference in Christchurch this week was sold out and very well received.  Drawing...
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04 Apr 2023

Kowhai Falls Site Visit

The Warehouse group’s latest development ‘Kowhai Falls’ in Warkworth is the most energy efficient building the group has ever built. Utilising LVL and Glulam as well as high spec insulation...
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04 Apr 2023

Attention: Timber Design Engineers – Comment Now

NZS AS 1720.1:2022 Timber structures, Part 1: Design methods, was published by Standards New Zealand on 31st October 2022 and is currently available from the Standards NZ website. It supersedes...
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04 Apr 2023

Women in Mass Timber – This is for you!

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28 Mar 2023

Tauranga Walks the Talk with Timber

The ground-breaking ceremony has happened, the crane has arrived, and piling is underway for what’s set to become the country’s largest mass timber office building. The future home of Tauranga...
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28 Mar 2023

Stop Press! More Timber for Tauranga City

Tauranga City’s Commission is moving ahead with the next stage of design for the development; and another timber building project is well underway to revitalize the heart of the city...
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28 Mar 2023

Higgins Office Gets Green Star with Glulam

Green Star for the Green Team – At Techlam, they took on a design challenge when they were announced as the successful tenderers for the Glulam product in this project....
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28 Mar 2023

Embodied carbon – Understanding and Visualising Scale

One of the problems is that people cannot visualize the scale of the carbon emissions involved. Many have tried to make it visible. So, Will Arnold at ARUP made a...
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20 Mar 2023

New Zealand Post Breaks with Tradition for Taupo Depot

This building development is part of a new light commercial development on land near the AC Baths in Taupo. The development was originally planned as a conventional warehouse using concrete...
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20 Mar 2023

Australia Hotel Looks Good in Wood

The Adelaide Oval Hotel is an iconic project for South Australia and is a prime example of a project designed, engineered, and constructed utilising the design for manufacturing and assembly...
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20 Mar 2023

BC Company Well Placed for 1000 Mass Timber Homes Target

In Vancouver’s suburbs in British Columbia, one homebuilder is halfway to its goal of 1,000 mass timber homes. Vancouver-based homebuilder Adera Development is at the forefront of mass timber construction...
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14 Mar 2023

Mass Timber Status in Australia

When it came to mass timber, Australia was ahead of the world pack ten years ago. We had the tallest mass timber buildings for several years, some of the very...
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14 Mar 2023

Warren and Mahoney Named in Fast Company’s List of the World’s Most Innovated Companies for 2023

Globally influential business publication Fast Company has announced its prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. The list showcases businesses at the forefront of their respective...
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14 Mar 2023

Spotlight on: WoodWorks Conference Site Visits

Thanks to Sheppard and Rout, Naylor Love and their building project clients we have two site visits demonstrating mass timber applications in two different applications.  Both the AgResearch Lincoln and Marian...
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14 Mar 2023

New International Fire Safety Design Resource

Mass timber experts in three countries have launched a comprehensive new fire safety website: Fire Safety: Wood in Construction. It gives users a free, single point of access to information...
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14 Mar 2023

Denmark Leads Decarbonisation in Building

Denmark leads the way with embodied carbon limits for buildings. From January 1st, 2023, Denmark became the first Nordic country to introduce embodied carbon limits into building regulations. All new...
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07 Mar 2023

Stevens Lawsons Architect Receive Highest NZIA Award

Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson receive NZIA 2022 Gold Medal – Auckland architects Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson of Stevens Lawson Architects (SLA) have been awarded the 2022 Gold Medal...
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07 Mar 2023

Unique Opportunity for Young Industry Professionals

This opportunity comes with a free conference registration – up to about five of them in fact for – for this year’s WoodWorks South Island 2023 event running in Christchurch,...
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07 Mar 2023

Spotlight on: WoodWorks Conference Site Visits

Thanks to Sheppard and Rout, Naylor Love and their building project clients we have two site visits demonstrating mass timber applications in two different applications.  Both the AgResearch Lincoln and Marian...
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07 Mar 2023

WoodSolutions 2023 Study Tour – Sweden and Norway

Six days and six nights of outstanding inspiration, information and fun from Falkenberg, Sweden to Oslo, Norway for AUD$6,950 single accommodation basis.Join our group of architects, engineers, developers and building...
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28 Feb 2023

WoodWorks 2023 South – Speaker Focus

Jasper van der Linden – Director, Sheppard and Rout Architects, New Zealand Jasper has been an Architect for well over 30 years and is currently a director of Sheppard &...
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28 Feb 2023

Remember Bob Jones ‘Tall Timber Tower’ in Wellington?

If you’ve been a regular WoodWorks Conference attendee you may recall from our 2018 conference how excitement generated when landlord and property developer Bob Jones declared he would commit to...
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28 Feb 2023

West Australia’s Largest Timber Building Opens

Western Australia’s first large-scale mass-engineered timber building has been completed at Murdoch University’s South Street campus in Perth. Designed by Lyons in collaboration with Officer Woods, The Fulcrum Agency, Silver...
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28 Feb 2023

What are the 5 largest timber projects ever built?

Vittorio Salvadori: I am currently updating my doctoral research for a new article to be published soon, and I have collected 5 projects: 1) Arboretum (France-2023): 125,000 m2 2) Siemens...
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28 Feb 2023

Engineered Wood Products Webinar

The Timber Design Society invite you to watch their 2nd webinar of their 2023 series with David Carradine presenting on Engineered Wood Products in New Zealand – Recent Survey Results...
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21 Feb 2023

WoodWorks Christchurch Conference & Site Visits: Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out – Only 160 Seats

Click here to register now for WoodWorks 23 South. With limited seats available we suggest you register your teams as soon as possible.  Thanks to our speakers we have a practical...
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21 Feb 2023

The Nature of Wood

Looking around the world, mass timber construction is gaining attention in the architectural world. Timber construction can have significant benefits in reducing the embodied carbon footprint of buildings. If sourced...
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21 Feb 2023

More Valuable Information from WoodWorks US: 

From our colleagues at WoodWorks in USA, we spotted this valuable resources for people working with mass timber installers. Mass Timber Installation Training Curriculum – These mass timber installation training...
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21 Feb 2023

Story 2: Building Carbon Calculator Updated

Naylor Love: We’ve updated our Building Carbon Calculator! We developed the calculator a couple of years ago as a simple tool to compare the upfront carbon emissions of structural building...
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14 Feb 2023

Red Stag Timber Open Day for Industry

RED STAG TIMBER OPEN DAY – organised by the Mid-Rise Wood Construction Programme On 23rd February you and your colleagues can take a tour of 7 mass timber industrial buildings...
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14 Feb 2023

Binderholz Delivers ‘The Bond’ in Sydney

‘The Bond’, Sydney | Australia – is a 6-storey office building constructed with binderholz CLT BBS and glulam. The complete prefabrication took place off-site in their factories in Europe. Architect:...
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14 Feb 2023

ThinkWood Offers Affordability Solutions in Mass Timber

ThinkWood recently dove into a new report on the use of prefabricated wood products in affordable housing from Minneapolis-based environmental nonprofit Dovetail Partners and New York City-based development firm Spiritos...
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14 Feb 2023

Adele Wears Stella McCartney Gown Made From Wood Pulp in Las Vegas Show

Could wood pulp be the new material of choice for fashion designers? The performer Adele recently wore a beautiful dress made of Cady fabric, a semi-synthetic viscose material made from...
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07 Feb 2023

WoodWorks Christchurch Conference & Site Visits: Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out – Only 160 Seats

Click here to register now for WoodWorks 23 South. We remind you that Early Bird rates for the WoodWorks Christchurch Conference are on offer until 10 Feb (this Friday).  With limited...
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07 Feb 2023

Job Vacancy: Business Development Manager

Woodspan are looking for an energetic Business Development Manager to look after their fast-growing Auckland market. Sustainable, innovative and NZ-made — Woodspan’s off-site manufactured PLT panels are changing the way...
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07 Feb 2023

USA: Where Mass Timber Housing is Growing Fast

Why Housing? Why CLT? – The mass timber team at Perkins & Will have a case study that’s worth checking out if you’re considering how multi-residential projects can benefit from...
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07 Feb 2023

Korea: Using Robot Dogs for Smarter Construction

In Seoul one of the smart construction technology systems being used at the site is a robot dog that walks on four legs. This smart device assists workers by accumulating...
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31 Jan 2023

WoodWorks > Christchurch > MARCH > Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out: Seats are Limited to 160 Delegates

Session one features Jasper van der Linden, Director of Sheppard and Rout Architects and the BECA Multi-disciplinary Design Team. This first session will be focussed on project showcase followed by...
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31 Jan 2023

AUT A1 Building Construction Well Underway (Jasmax/Naylor Love)

The construction of Auckland University of Technology’s A1 Building has hit a significant milestone with the installation of the first of nine post-tensioned LVL timber frames weighing up to 31...
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31 Jan 2023

Australia’s First Entirely Wooden Stadium: From Italy

The sustainable impact of a “green” stadium – The story of Australia’s first wooden stadium explains perfectly why “sustainability” is not an empty word. The new stadium build will see...
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31 Jan 2023

Architects Should Consider Health When Designing a Structure: Tye Farrow does Wonders with Wood, Creating Places where People can Thrive.

Building with wood has become more common as of late, with new technologies and changes in building codes. We often note the benefits of reduced carbon emissions and speed of...
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23 Jan 2023

Dunedin: CLT for Passive House Build for Students

Dunedin’s student housing is notoriously bad, even worse than its winters. However, a new Passive House certified apartment block smack in the middle of the student housing precinct is a...
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23 Jan 2023

London’s Black and White Building is a Mass Timber Exemplar!

London’s ‘Black and White’ Building Is Complete … and It’s a Knockout – The office building features exposed laminated veneer lumber. The latest mass timber building by Waugh Thistleton architects,...
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23 Jan 2023

Wood is the New Concrete

(USA) What is Nanocellulose? – Cellulosic nanomaterials are the microscopic building blocks of a tree. When we add these super structures to non-tree materials like concrete, steel, and plastics, we...
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16 Jan 2023

WoodWorks > Christchurch > MARCH > Register Now so You Don’t Miss Out: 

See the program and registration details for our WoodWorks South Conference in Christchurch on 28-29 March.  We’ve got an exciting new format to make it easier for your travel timings! We...
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16 Jan 2023

Hines Apartments for Melbourne get Federal Funding Boost

A Melbourne development has joined a push to grow the Australian timber tower movement and reduce the construction industry’s massive environmental footprint, but higher costs and fears of fire risks...
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16 Jan 2023

Q&A with David Carradine

Working with wood led BRANZ Senior Structural Research Engineer David Carradine to develop a deep love for the material. Extensive studies followed leading to a career where his research has...
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20 Dec 2022

UBC Embraces Mass Timber with $180 million Gateway Building by Evan Saunders

(British Columbia) Wood construction allowed the University of British Columbia to represent three of its core values in designing the new Gateway Building: sustainability, personal well-being and Indigenous collaboration, said...
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20 Dec 2022

Nearly a Quarter of November Liquidations Construction Companies

A BusinessDesk analysis of notices filed in the NZ Gazette last month found 186 companies were put into liquidation. Of that, 42, or just under 23%, were companies involved in...
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20 Dec 2022

Mass Timber Opportunities: When Innovations and Nature Merge

(Canada) From timber long houses in Europe to temples in Asia, wood has been a primary construction material in buildings since the Stone Age, with some still standing more than...
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20 Dec 2022

Quake Shake on 10-story Tower at UCSD Simulator will Test the Mettle of Tall Wood Buildings

Engineers at UC San Diego’s outdoor earthquake simulator are about to finish building a 10-story wooden tower that will undergo fierce shaking to explore how well tall timber structures can...
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20 Dec 2022

Toronto: New Beam Design for 10-Storey College Building

Limberlost Place, George Brown College – A slab banded structure: The winner of an international design competition, the $150M Limberlost Place will be a 10-storey, 16,250 square-meter, exposed tall wood...
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12 Dec 2022

Timber for Downtown London Mixed use Building 

(London) Green light for O’Rourke to start timber office block. Planning approval has been granted for The William mixed-use development in west London with Laing O’Rourke lined-up as main contractor....
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12 Dec 2022

Video: How to Build a Wood Skyscraper

Got 12 minutes to see inside the Ascent Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – currently the tallest timber building in the world? Go on – have a peek below:...
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12 Dec 2022

Wood-Based Wind Turbine Towers and Blades Gain Traction

LVL blades for taller, more sustainable wind turbines – In 2021, wind energy accounted for 6.7% of global electricity generation, which was double the share of solar energy. Although wind...
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12 Dec 2022

A Complex Timber Roof – Design and Fabrication

(China) The N4-3 Restaurant at the Jiaozi Financial Street development is a boutique eatery featuring a complex timber gridshell. It complements the surrounding business district, and its open form creates...
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05 Dec 2022

 HomeGround Receives Major NZIA Award

New Zealand’s tallest mass timber icon – The Auckland City Mission HomeGround building has received another prestigious award.  NZIA announced the winners of their named awards – Aotearoa’s highest tier of architectural achievement.⁠ The...
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05 Dec 2022

Timber Transforming its Role in the Future of Construction

Timber may be one of the oldest and most common building materials, but innovations like these are transforming its role in the future of construction. Here are four Australian projects...
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05 Dec 2022

Global CLT Market Growth Predicted

CLT market projected to top $2 billion by 2027 – According to the current analysis from Reports and Data, the global cross laminated timber market was valued at $786.71 Million...
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05 Dec 2022

Engineered Bamboo Gaining Credibility

Materials Innovations: What is Structural Engineered Bamboo (SEB)? – Pretentious as it may sound, we can say with certainty that bamboo is one of the most promising materials for the...
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05 Dec 2022

How Timber Buildings Can Save the World

There’s no getting away from it: the construction of new buildings, with the traditional materials of steel, iron and cement, accounts for around 39% of all global carbon emissions. Reducing...
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30 Nov 2022

Warren and Mahoney Designing our Largest Mass Timber Building

How this New Zealand local council office building became a “timber hero” – One of New Zealand’s leading architects Warren and Mahoney has designed the country’s largest mass timber building...
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30 Nov 2022

Techlam to Supply Glulam to TCC Building

Techlam supplying the glulam components and systems for New Zealand’s largest mass timber office building – Tauranga City Council’s new six-star Green Star office building, 90 Devonport Road to feature...
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30 Nov 2022

UK – Timber Solutions UK for Fire Challenges

Timber Development UK has released an article co-authored by Waugh Thistleton associate director David Lomax and Whitby Wood director Kelly Harrison that looks at emerging solutions for mass timber construction,...
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30 Nov 2022

Building and Construction Sector Trends: Annual Report

Purpose of the report The purpose of the annual report is to provide an overview of the current and emerging trends in the building and construction sector; and fulfills section...
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30 Nov 2022

Australia’s First Mass-Engineered Timber Fire Station Officially Operational in Maryborough, QLD

More than six years and $14 million of works are complete at the Queensland Fire and Emergency Headquarters in the heritage city of Maryborough, but this is a building like...
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30 Nov 2022

Professional Development Grants

The New Zealand Timber Design Society (TDS) is happy to offer two professional development grants for consulting engineers actively involved with timber design.Successful recipient(s) will receive financial assistance to cover...
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22 Nov 2022

Brisbane: Kirk Creates “Experimental” Office Tower

Kirk has created an “experimental” office tower in Brisbane that thoughtfully navigates a complex brief, a challenging site and a tight timeframe by utilizing locally grown and manufactured CLT. In...
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22 Nov 2022

Computer Modelling Helps Designers Understand Building Performance

With the increased demand for taller wood buildings as a low-carbon alternative, there is a greater need to better understand the building performance of wood structures. Computer modelling allows demonstration...
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22 Nov 2022

What is the Ironclad Rule of Carbon?

Lloyd Alter, Treehugger Editor: I try to distill many of the thoughts discussed on Treehugger into coherent lectures when teaching Sustainable Design at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Interior Design...
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22 Nov 2022

Australia’s First CLT Extension Project Wins Top Award

From Bates Smart: Great news out of Chicago, as 55 Southbank Boulevard has been named overall winner of the Renovation category at the 2022 CTBUH Awards. This comes after director Julian...
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16 Nov 2022

Job Vacancy: Digital Builder (Prefab/Mass Timber)

Looking for an opportunity to get away from the construction site, step up your career, while being part of the future of construction? Offsite Design Ltd are experts in prefabrication...
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11 Nov 2022

Four-level Office Block Planned for Christchurch CBD

Ruamoko Solutions is proud to be involved with Portus Property and Ignite on the innovative structural design of this mass timber building. The development of this iconic site into a...
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11 Nov 2022

Challenging Architects to use More Wood

This is a story about Irving Smith Architects’ new studio in Nelson. It’s as much about its outer contextual boundaries as it is about its lack of interior ones, and...
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11 Nov 2022

Mass Timber Business Case Studies

Created for the developer/investor audience, these case studies discuss qualitative influences and provide quantitative data to examine investment success, challenges and lessons learned. WoodWorks US – click here for more. Steel...
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31 Oct 2022

Mass timber: 10 Reasons and 10 Challenges

10 Reasons to Build With Mass Timber – Are you considering using mass timber as a structural system for your next building project? If so, you will want to check...
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31 Oct 2022

Wood-Works US : Another excellent technical resource!

Mass Timber Connections Index: Optimal Connection Considerations – The cost of connections in a mass timber structure can significantly affect the overall project cost. However, because mass timber connection design...
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31 Oct 2022

Stacked rectangular structures form Jenga-like college building

Taking the form of a series of timber and glass rectangles stacked on top of each other, the Robert Day Sciences Center for California’s Claremont McKenna College is likened to...
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21 Oct 2022

Glulam: A Premium Building Product That Ensures Low Carbon Design

Designing with low carbon in mind doesn’t take away from a project, it enhances it giving it an innovative edge that makes it unique. Using Techlam Glulam takes away the...
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21 Oct 2022

Pounamu Pathway Design Revealed

RM Designs have released the first images of ‘Te Ara Pounamu’. The building will be at the gateway to Mawhera and the flagship for the Pounamu Pathway on the West Coast...
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21 Oct 2022

Wood Makes Solid Construction Comeback

RNZ: Wood is making a comeback as the construction industry looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from high carbon materials like concrete and steel. The government’s Building for Climate Change...
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21 Oct 2022

CLT Handbook now Available in Special UK Edition

A new edition of the 150-page Swedish Wood CLT handbook has been adapted for the UK market and brought up to date with the latest research and developments by industry...
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14 Oct 2022

New Apartments Showcase Low Carbon Building Benefits 

Building with renewable engineered wood rather than concrete offers a significant win for the environment and the financials, a new case study has revealed. The study used Clearwater Quays luxury...
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14 Oct 2022

Unique Opportunity for Young Interns

This opportunity comes with a free conference registration – up to about eight of them in fact for – for this year’s WoodWorks event running in Rotorua, New Zealand on...
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14 Oct 2022

Mitsubishi Jisho Design Completes “Japan’s First Hybrid Timber High-Rise Hotel”

Architecture studio Mitsubishi Jisho Design has completed an 11-storey hybrid timber hotel in Sapporo, Japan, that was designed to use as much local timber and as little concrete as possible....
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07 Oct 2022

Launceston’s $30 Million, 28-Metre-High Timber Building

Launceston’s $30 million, 28-metre-high timber building is set to become the most sustainable and carbon-positive office in Tasmania. Encompassing 500m2 of Cusp CLT, it also aims to be the first...
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07 Oct 2022

Unique Opportunity for Young Interns/Trainees

This opportunity comes with a free conference registration – up to about eight of them in fact for – for this year’s WoodWorks event running in Rotorua, New Zealand on 8-9...
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07 Oct 2022

Premium USA Wood-Works Content Available

WoodWorks NZ followers now have access to premium content on the Wood-Works USA websites. To take advantage of the free access to events and content use the code: FreeNZ Click on...
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07 Oct 2022

TDS Webinar this week: Seismic Performance and Durability of Timber-Based Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) – Webinar 13 October

Join the Timber Design Society for the ninth webinar of the Timber Design series with David Carradine. The detailing and performance of SIP systems can be significantly different to other...
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07 Oct 2022

Research in BC on Wood-Steel Hybrid Building Safety

(Prince George, BC, Canada) — Combining steel and wood in building design can make our structures more sustainable, but how do these hybrid buildings handle fire, earthquakes and other cascading...
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30 Sep 2022

Last Chance for Early Bird Rates

Our WoodWorks conference is now just over a month away and registrations are pouring in.  Early bird rates finish this Friday so this is your last chance to take advantage of...
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30 Sep 2022

Embodied Carbon Unicorn Moment

From the team at Logic Group: Recently we were given the chance to truly test our V-Quest comparative analysis tool as a service. The project, Five 5 storey apartment blocks,...
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30 Sep 2022

Cool School

Check this out, if this doesn’t make you want to go back to kindergarten again, what would? The project brief was to create a unique early childhood centre that would...
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26 Sep 2022

TE WARE HONONGA Digital Fabrication

The new building at Taranaki Cathedral will be a centre for peace and reconciliation; called Te Whare Hononga – The House That Binds. The single storied structure consists of a...
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26 Sep 2022

WoodWorks Conference a Must for Those in Engineered Wood Design and Construction

Running in early November, our 7th annual WoodWorks mass timber conference brings together leaders in engineered wood design and construction. Mass timber technology developments, including LVL and CLT, prefabrication and...
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26 Sep 2022

Mid-Rise Wood Construction Events

World’s Tallest Timber Residential Building: Hear first-hand from the Danish Architect Places at the Mid-Rise Wood Construction event hosting Enlai Hooi, Global Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen, are...
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