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Architect Magazine
Wood is widely recognized as a carbon-neutral building material, but its use as a structural material has been mostly limited to residential and low-rise buildings due to its combustible nature. Prescriptive requirements for wood structures up to 18 stories were among the additions preliminarily approved for the International Building Code following the work of the International Code Council's ad-hoc Tall Wood Buildings Committee.
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Forest Business Network
Deadline for the call for speakers for the 2019 International Mass Timber Conference is Wednesday, Oct. 31. View the speaker submission form here and nominate your presentation today.
FPS
The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium will take place Sept. 24-27, 2019, in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The event will be hosted by the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg and co-sponsored by the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Products Society and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations D5.01.09 unit "Non-Destructive Evaluation of Wood and Wood-Based Materials."
Registration opens April 1, 2019. Click here for additional information.
The Globe and Mail
On a site tour earlier this month of Toronto's first substantial "tall timber" project, the developer, Jeff Hull of Hullmark Developments, good-naturedly encouraged visitors to hug the columns – should they feel so inclined.
In fact, as contractors have been installing the sturdy "glulam" columns in Hullmark's new post-and-beam building at 80 Atlantic Ave. in recent months, architects and developer officials have been spotted occasionally embracing these impressive objects.
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Missoulian
Montana's forests, outdoor recreation opportunities and other natural resources draw economically significant numbers of tourists, students and jobs in Missoula County. The forest products industry is also on the rebound in the state due to tariffs and increased timber harvest limits put in place after a disastrous wildfire season. That's all according to a panel of experts convened by the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.
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Construction Dive
John Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology research scientist and head of architecture and building firm John Klein Design, has a particular interest in mass timber. After working in London and Beijing, Klein came back to the U.S. to "find new ways and approaches to address the challenges of the built environment."
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Capital Press
The volume of timber cut from Northwest national forests is increasing due to collaborative planning and growing state involvement in logging projects, according to an Oregon forest supervisor.
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NW News Network
Construction begins soon in eastern Oregon for the first commercial-scale "torrefaction" facility in the country. If you don't know what that word means, you're in good company.
But the process itself isn't all that exotic.
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Woodworking Network
Between October 10th and 12th, Hurricane Michael damaged more than five million acres of forest throughout Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, according to the region's forestry officials.
Michael, the third-most intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. mainland and the strongest storm on record in the Florida panhandle, caused at least $1.6 billion in timber losses, officials told The Wall Street Journal.
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