Steel-Timber Hybrid
Advantages and challenges
Sponsored by Think Wood
This presentation will examine the recent trend towards steel-timber hybrids - as a subset of the wider trend towards mass timber - in high rise buildings. It will overview where this is happening, and what the advantages and challenges are, focusing on some of the key case studies employing such systems.
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Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in July 2023
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Recognize the global trend towards timber and timber-hybrid buildings in terms of predominant geography; building function; building height; and other factors.
- Appreciate why, and under what circumstances, these two materials are being used in hybrid action.
- Examine how they are being used, i.e. the myriad different hybrid arrangements of steel and timber.
- Evaluate real technical implementations from around the world, through real built case studies.
