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Feb

Modern Tall Wood Buildings: Opportunities for Innovation

Dr. Jim Bowyer at Dovetail Partners, Inc. has published a report focusing on tall wood buildings. “Modern Tall Wood Buildings: Opportunities for Innovation” covers the history of CLT, examples of tall wood buildings globally, wood building initiatives across the globe, tall wood building potential, costs, and cautions. The report states, “Tall wood buildings offer an opportunity to […]

By 36creative • Posted February 23, 2016

Feb

Conceptual design of LEVER Architecture’s Albina Yard

Reworks and LEVER gearing up for Albina Yard

Portland, Oregon firms Reworks Inc. and LEVER Architecture are constructing the latest mass timber building. Albina Yard, a 16,000 square foot creative office building, is currently under construction in North Portland’s Mississippi District. The building holds the title of the first use of domestically produced CLT panels for a building-wide structural system in the United States. The building has been under […]

By 36creative • Posted February 19, 2016

Feb

Ad hoc committee made for Tall Wood Buildings

The International Code Council (ICC) Board of Directors recently announced they have established an ad hoc committee focused entirely on the building science of tall wood buildings. The term tall wood applies to wood construction which uses cross-laminated timber (CLT) and is 6 stories or taller. The scope of the ad hoc committee is to […]

By 36creative • Posted February 16, 2016

Feb

Upcoming Mass Timber Conference in Portland, OR

Modern tall wood buildings, engineered wood products, and cross-laminated timber are just some of the topics covered at the Mass Timber Conference this year. From March 22-24, global experts and interested individuals will gather at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Oregon. The event is co-produced by Forest Business Network and WoodWorks, two industry leaders […]

By 36creative • Posted February 10, 2016

Feb

WoodWorks announces 2016 Wood Design Award winners

Congratulations to the 2016 Wood Design Award winners! WoodWorks announced the national and regional design winners. Now it its 8th year, the Wood Design Award is meant to “celebrate projects and design teams that showcase the innovative use of wood as both a structural and finish material,” according to Jennifer Cover, PE, executive director of WoodWorks/Wood […]

By 36creative • Posted February 4, 2016

Feb

The nation’s first CLT hotel

Construction on the nation’s first hotel built out of cross-laminated timber (CLT) is complete. Architects Newspaper recently reported on the CLT hotel, located on the site of a former Army troop barracks at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. The 4 story hotel is also known as Candlewood Suites and will house on-post military members, their families and all […]

By 36creative • Posted February 2, 2016

Jan

Tour of UMass building construction site

Build It With Wood has been closely following the construction of University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Integrated Design Building. This week, we got a behind-the-scenes tour of the construction site. Watch the video below! You can read more about the Integrated Design Building on UMass Amherst’s website or read our previous posts about the arrival of […]

By 36creative • Posted January 29, 2016

Jan

Quebec City ready for Origine

Nordic Structures is in the final planning stages to build the 13 story tall Origine apartment building in Quebec City. After 18 months of planning and testing, the apartment block is getting ready. According to Global Construction Review, Origine will be made of 7-layer black spruce CLT panels and finished with an aluminum facade. Yvan […]

By 36creative • Posted January 28, 2016

Jan

America’s first modern tall timber building on its way

Minneapolis will soon be the home to the T3 building- America’s first modern tall timber building. T3, which stands for Timber, Technology and Transit, will be a 7 story office building made with nail laminated timber panels (NLT). Michael Green Architecture and DLR Group designed the building and it is being developed by Hines. As you can […]

By 36creative • Posted January 25, 2016

Jan

First shipment of wood at UMass Amherst

Back in October, Build It With Wood attended the groundbreaking ceremony for University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Integrated Design Building and have been following construction ever since. This week, the Building and Construction Technology department at UMass Amherst posted pictures of the first shipment of wood arriving at the construction site. The 87,500 square feet […]

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