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Greenville Journal
If you were to walk through downtown Greenville, South Carolina, you would likely notice several landmarks, including the Liberty Bridge and the old county courthouse.
While these iconic structures are unique in their own right, they share one commonality: They're made of concrete. The coarse, gray material is the very foundation of modern infrastructure. It's been used in the construction of everything from buildings and bridges to roads and sidewalks.
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FPS
The Mid-South Section of the Forest Products Society is hosting a program, "21st Century Wood Technology," Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 7 and 8, at the Sustainable Bioproducts Laboratory of the School of Forestry on the Campus of Mississippi State University. The upcoming Sessions cover a wide range of the newer wood utilization technologies that are growing in importance in the Southeast and also will provide the attendee with an update on applications and technologies being utilized.
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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.
The Construction Specifier
Earlier this fall, the Washington State Building Code Council (SBCC) approved code changes that will allow for the structural use of mass timber in buildings as tall as 18 stories. This makes Washington the first state in the nation to allow tall mass timber buildings into its building code, without pursuing an alternate method.
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Curbed
For the 2018 Jim Vlock Building Project at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) — an annual program that asks first year students to design and build a home for low-income families and individuals — students were challenged to work with cross-laminated timber (CLT), an innovative wood panel product typically used in mid-rise structures as well as increasingly popular tall timber buildings rising around the world.
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Albany Democrat-Herald via Corvallis Gazette-Times
Tyler Freres, vice president of sales for Freres Lumber Co., walked through a new manufacturing plant between Mill City and Lyons, off of Cedar Mill Road, and pointed out a stack of wood panels destined for Oregon State University this week. Freres Lumber Co.'s mass plywood panels were certified for use at the end of July, and the product is already being used in buildings and for other construction purposes. And Freres is thinking big.
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The Guardian
A forest of eucalyptus columns extends inside the expansive dormitory complex of the Canuanã school in northern Brazil, as if the nearby woodland has taken over the building. Between the soaring trunks stand clusters of little mud-brick rooms arranged around open courtyards, while a wafer-thin metal canopy floats above the whole scene, providing merciful shade in the sweltering heat.
This is the Children Village, designed by young architects Aleph Zero with designer Marcelo Rosenbaum, named this year's winner of the RIBA international prize for the best building in the world.
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Medium
There is a growing demand to use timber and more specifically mass timber on large scale construction projects. This puts the emphasis too much on just changing materials of the building envelope, whereas the focus of construction should be on the rearrangement of processes in the overall value chain. Timber as a construction material has many positive aspects but the gains are easily nullified when the management principles fail to look at the supply chain as a whole. To increase productivity the industry should shift the focus from unit face values to time and process management.
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ArchDaily
The "Long Lodge" proposal for residential cabins along the Appalachian Trail, recently named the Honor Award Winner of the 2018 Maine Mass Timber Design Competition, highlights simple yet creative ways to spotlight the possibilities and natural beauty of timber as a construction material. The winning four-person design team created a lodge that not only serves as a temporary living space but rather becomes a memorable spatial experience through the effects of the structural design choices.
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KTVZ-TV
Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Tuesday that the 2018 Farm Bill doubles the size of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program and extends it through 2023.
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