Lend Lease recently built the world's tallest timber building at its Forte residential development in Melbourne, Australia. The 10-storey apartment building took a team of five skilled labourers just 10 weeks to construct, and the key was cross-laminated timber, or CLT, which is emerging in ...
Popularized in Europe and gradually gaining attention in the rest of the world,Cross Laminated Timber(CLT) stands out for its strength, appearance, versatility, and sustainability. The material consists of planks (or lamellas) of sawn, glued, and layered wood, where each layer is oriented perpen...
Made with locally-sourced dimension lumber, the simplicity of NLT makes it relatively easy to assemble. Similar to other mass timber products, NLT panels can be topped with concrete to form timber concrete composite (TCC), a hybrid system used to reduce cross sections, increase spans and lessen...
Glulam is made from a wide variety of species like Douglas-fir, spruce-pine-fir (SPF) and western hemlock. Beams and columns of virtually any size and shape are fabricated by laminating three or more kiln-dried, stress-tested, and finger-jointed lumber together to form continuous laminations....
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is the most versatile type of mass timber that is functional for walls, roofs, and floor panels, often in taller, multistory buildings. It’s made by stacking dimensional lumber in a perpendicular (cross) pattern; pieces are then glu...
Life-cycle assessments look at the carbon spent moving logs from forest to mill. There's also the energy expended milling and manufacturing wood into mass-timber products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glued laminated timber (glulam). In addition, there's the carbon released when con...
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