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ArchDaily
As architects face up to the need for ethical, sustainable design in the age of climate change awareness, timber architecture is making a comeback in a new, technologically impressive way. Largely overlooked in the age of Modernism, recent years have seen a plethora of advancements related to mass timber across the world. This year alone, Japan announced plans for a supertall wooden skyscraper in Tokyo by 2041, while the European continent has seen plans for the world's largest timber building in the Netherlands, and the world’s tallest timber tower in Norway.
The potential for mass timber to become the dominant material of future sustainable cities has also gained traction in the United States throughout 2018. Evolving codes and the increasing availability of mass timber is inspiring firms, universities and state legislators to research and invest in ambitious projects across the country.
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Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition
The 2019 IC is set for June 25-28, 2019, in Atlanta, and a program committee is currently being formed. Please reach out to Debbie Brady, FPS Executive Vice President, if you would like to participate in the planning. The planning committee meets monthly by phone and establishes the content and structure of the IC.
The 2019 IC will be co-located with the Southern Forest Products Association's Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo.
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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.
Architects' Journal
Anthony Thistleton, founding partner of Waugh Thistleton Architects, explains why the age of concrete is over and why engineered timber is a solution to the biggest issue of our age.
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Building Design + Construction
A Des Moines, Iowa, building is the largest dowel laminated timber (DLT) project in North America. DLT, manufactured by StructureCraft, will be used for the floor and roof assemblies. The columns and beams will be made from glue laminated timber.
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Lab Notes
As thousands of visitors each day walk across a new flooring installation in UW–Madison’s Union South this fall, they might not realize they're participating in what could very well represent a leap into the future of renewable energy production.
A research team led by Xudong Wang, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of materials science and engineering, in collaboration with the UW–Madison Grainger Institute for Engineering, has installed a high-tech flooring prototype that harvests the energy of footsteps and converts it into electricity.
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FPInnovations
With the upswing in the construction sector in Canada and the United States, the supply of chips produced by Quebec sawmills is greater than the demand, creating large surpluses in various regions of the province. In addition, the wood panel industry is facing a number of challenges associated with the constant procurement of raw materials, which relate to the quantity and quality of the supply. Faced with this situation, a major Quebec manufacturer in the particle board sector seeking to diversify its sources of supply has partnered with FPInnovations to help it achieve this objective.
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The Chemical Engineer
Twelve research groups from seven countries have developed a sustainable method for producing biofuel from wood waste. The process takes place in a mobile unit which has the potential to decentralize fuel production.
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The Kendeda Fund
The image of mass timber puts it in a slightly softer place than the steel girders. This is wood, after all — that smooth, natural material that you can run your hands across to feel at one with the Earth. From an environmental perspective, the big difference is that wood is a renewable resource: It stores carbon, unlike steel or cement, which require tons of carbon emissions to manufacturer.
But, when you get right down to it, mass timber construction is pretty robust business — just not quite as heavy a lift as assembling the steel I-beams or pouring the tons of concrete that form the skeletons of most large commercial buildings.
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