Timber Grows Up  

Architects and engineers, drawn to wood for its environmental attributes, push the material to new limits.

Sponsored by AR_Editorial, Architectural Record, and Think Wood | By Joann Gonchar, AIA

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This course discusses recently completed, under-construction, and proposed mass-timber buildings. It outlines the environmental benefits, as well as the challenges, of using wood in unconventional ways—both in tall and low-rise structures. And it explores the structural, fire-resistive, and other performance qualities of engineered-wood products.

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Mass Timber Construction

Image courtesy Rune Abrahamsen

This course discusses recently completed, under-construction, and proposed mass-timber buildings. It outlines the environmental benefits, as well as the challenges, of using wood in unconventional ways—both in tall and low-rise structures. And it explores the structural, fire-resistive, and other performance qualities of engineered-wood products.

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Mass Timber Construction

Image courtesy Rune Abrahamsen

Originally published in Process Heating

Originally published in June 2018

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • Define the term mass timber.
  • Discuss the fire-resistive and structural properties of different types of wood construction.
  • Outline the environmental benefits of building with wood.
  • Describe the construction and structural strategies that some project teams are deploying in order to use wood in taller buildings.