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Cross-Laminated Timber, LVL, Glulam, and other Structural Laminates
A bridge made of engineered wood; specifically, cross-laminated timber! Even Madison’s hadn’t expected such anon-traditional application of forest products as a building material. Researchers at South Dakota State University’s J Lohr Structures Lab have tested the strength of a glulam bridge as part of a push to give counties and towns more options when designing…
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Multi-Storey Wood Timber Building
Last week was held the Timber Expo and UK Construction Week in Birmingham, UK. Now that wood framed buildings in Ontario can rise to six storeys, several owners have opted to go that route, citing speed of construction and cost as their prime motivators, wrote Ian Harvey in Daily Commercial News Friday. While there’s not…
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Update on Wood Framed Multi-Storey Building
Two new cross-laminated timber production facilities will be built in Australia, while Portland, Oregon’s, 12-story high rise in the Pearl District made out of Cross-Laminat– ed Timber is moving forward into its next phase of design, development and testing. New Multi-Storey Wood Framed Building Projects The Border Mail reports that XLam, which makes structural timber,…
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Thirteen Storey Timber Tower: Québec
Québec City’s Pointe-aux-Lievres eco-district is getting a 13-storey tower constructed mostly of cross laminated timber (CLT), with 12 storeys of apartments on top of a concrete podium, according to the Deccan Herald July 10. The condominium building, designed by Yvan Blouin, is being marketed as Origine.Origine is being built by Nordic Structures, who are of…
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Cross Laminated Timber
Some new announcements for funding around CLT (cross laminated timber) came out of a couple jurisdictions recently, also this week a Vancouver architecture firm has submitted a design proposal for a 35 storey wooden tower to be built in Paris. To promote the adoption of innovative wood building technologies, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)…
