Mass Timber Market Updates - Oct 2021 - Week Thirtynine

In this episode, it is with great pleasure that we present to you another article from the academic journal division of the Mass Timber Construction Journal. Congratulations to the authors. Travis Welt and the team at University of St. Thomas looked at the #shear #connector performance in #CLT. Citation: Cooke, M., Nodland, E., & Welt, T. (2021). State of research for shear connector performance in steel-CLT composite beams. Mass Timber Construction Journal, 4(1), 1-9. Architects and engineers are turning to an environmentally-friendly material known as “mass timber” to construct buildings. Mass timber, which is made of planks of wood glued together and stacked perpendicularly, emits less carbon than using steel, iron and cement. Roxana Saberi has more. Air Date: Sep 25, 2021. In the larger Housing Project sector is Jackson Clement Burrows’ student housing for La Trobe University. With two arcing wings, 624 student units and some facade aspects reflecting the colours of the plantings across the Melbourne bush campus, it is Australia’s biggest engineered-timber construction to date. It is also mostly empty at present. LMN Architects’ mass timber structure for Founders Hall at the University of Washington Foster School of Business has topped out. The 85,000-square-foot structure, expected to be completed in the summer of 2022, frames the northeast edge of the school’s historic Denny Yard, an open space at the heart of the original campus plan. It expands the Foster School of Business education complex while improving connections to the surrounding area.

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois’s Roosevelt Square Community Center is a new single-story cross-laminated timber (CLT) office and community center with kitchen space near their Roosevelt Square Village property.  WoodSolutions timber storage flyer is announced. The two-page PDF document titled ‘Reduce Moisture Issues by Storing Timber Correctly’ by Jeffrey J. Morrell.The first eco-passive multi-storey office building in Romania, built using cross-laminated timber (CLT), will be launched this Friday in the village of Vlaha, some 20 km from Cluj-Napoca. The 75m-tall Sara culture house, designed by Gothenburg practice White Arkitekter, is located in Skellefteå on the Gulf of Bothnia, just below the Arctic Circle. The San Francisco 1 De Haro building has a triangular shape and is wrapped in a glass curtain wall. It is comprised of three stories of exposed glulam columns and beams, and cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor slabs, on top of a concrete podium.  Top Knot Carpentry & Joinery

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