My WCTE perspective - Angelina Lu Zhang
Angelina Lu Zhang is a postgraduate student in the Department of Civil Engineering at Melbourne's Monash University. Here she shares her impressions of WCTE 2014.
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New CLT Zurich Elephant House
Hartmut Hering, the author of this blog entry, is a German wood construction engineer living in France and specialising in construction methods and technologies. A full case study of this project will be published on WoodSolutions.
44 new CLT classrooms in Vienna
The increasing use of cross laminated timber (CLT) in areas such as education, healthcare and public/community buildings is changing the way architects, building designers and engineers look at thedse projects.
WCTE Report: Elliot Panizza
The World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) is a biennial event that this year was held in Quebec, Canada. WoodSolutions sponsored a group of engineering students and recent graduates, this is a report from one of them, Elliot Panizza
FREE: timber+DESIGN online August
timber+DESIGN International is a free online Australian-based publication that features the best in innovative and excellent timber projects from local and international designers.
Australian Timber Design Workshop: February 2015
The Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW) at University of Tasmania's Launceston campus provides industry-leading undergraduate and postgraduate short and long courses.
UK's tallest timber structure?
Murray Grove, a ten storey CLT apartment building and many schools, other apartments and more lead the UK's foray into tall timber, but does this Glulam structure rise above them all?
WAF - Wood Excellence Prize Shortlist
Spanning 30 categories and including architects in over 40 countries the WAF awards are the only global architectural awards where all of the shortlisted entrants talk about their projects. Festival attendees can watch presentations from every single shortlisted architect and also find out what the judges think of each project.
CLT design wins in NZ
A press release from New Zealand Institute of Architects announced that the Auckland firm S3 Architects’ proposal for an innovative timber building has won the competition to design an apartment building on a brownfield site in Mt Eden.
New Adelaide CLT apartments
Adelaide's Kent Town in a trendy inner suburb, a stroll across the parklands from the East End precinct of the CBD.
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8 French Tall Timber Storeys
Hartmut Hering, the author of this blog entry, is a German wood construction engineer living in France and specialising in construction methods and technologies.
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World Tall Timber Overview 2014
A Canadian who recently completed his Master’s degree in Switzerland, Nicholas provides insight into current market conditions and provides optimisation solutions for innovative design scenarios. for more details on existing modern multi-story heavy timber buildings and upcoming projects, Nicholas can be contacted through WoodSolutions.
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European wood - observations and opinions
A young Australian architect travelling after studying wood design in Finland, Nicolas Pratt gives us a fascinating insight into the use of wood in Europe.
Australand prefabs 5 storeys at Parkville
Australand's The Green in Melbourne's Parkville (co-developed with the Citta Property Group) is Australia's first five storey timber framed residential building.
UK Eco Town prefabs timber SIPS
Structural insulated panels (SIPS) are used in the prefabricated system chosen for North West Bicester, one of four eco-towns planned by the British government.
Ten Tall Timber Buildings Survey Report
A survey of some of the most prominent tall timber buildings completed in the last few years.
New Domestic Timber Deck Design Guide
WoodSolutions Technical Design Guide 21 - Domestic Timber Deck Design provides a comprehensive resource to enable both professional and DIY users to design and construct decks that conform to the National Construction Code.
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What's your BAL? WoodSolutions Calculator
Now you can simply and quickly calculate the bushfire attack level (BAL) for any site. The WoodSolutions calculator allows you to see the effect of changing variables, such as the distance to vegetation, and quickly compare results. Useful for people designing, building and occupying metropolitan fringe and country properties.
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CNC Routing: Endless Possibilities
A young Australian architect travelling and studying wood design in Finland, Nicolas Pratt gives us a fascinating insight into designing and working with wood in that part of the world.
Library at The Dock Opening
The Library at The Dock at Victoria Harbour in Melbourne's Docklands precinct opened on Saturday May 31. WoodSolutions will feature the building in a case study, but in the meantime here are some images from the launch, apologies for the phone quality.
Architects: Clare Design and Hayball.
Major partners: Lend Lease, Places Victoria and the City of Melbourne.
Materials: cross laminated timber (CLT), Glulam, recycled wharf timbers
The story behind world-leading technical guides
WoodSolutions Technical Design Guides are a series of publications - approximately 20 titles in all - created for design, engineering and building professionals. Titles contain essential information regarding material specification, detailing and codes and compliance.
This is the story behind one of them.
New Timber Solutions - Beta testers
WoodSolutions Timber Solutions software has just undergone a major update. We are looking for beta testers to trial the new software to ensure its functionality and reliability. People who have used previous versions are preferred as we would like you to run some of your previous calculations though the new application.
FREE entry to designEX, Sydney, May 28-30
As a valued client of WoodSolutions we would like to invite you to designEX 2014 at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, Glebe Island from 28-30 May 2014.
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Free June CPD Seminars in Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney
WoodSolutions seminars are created to provide design, engineering and construction professionals with information and inspiration related to the use of wood and wood products.