Places are filling up fast for the exclusive site tour of Ryman Healthcare’s newest sustainably-built retirement village in Christchurch, Kevin Hickman village. Attendees will have the opportunity to see the…

Mid-Rise Wood Construction is proud to host an exclusive construction-stage site tour of 90 Devonport Road, Tauranga. L.T. McGuiness are currently working with Willis Bond and Tauranga City Council to…

Join us for an exclusive tour of Ryman Healthcare’s newest sustainably-built retirement village in Christchurch, Kevin Hickman village. Attendees will have the opportunity to see the innovative use of cross-laminated…

A stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects and housing by Adjaye Associates feature in this roundup of upcoming wooden buildings, curated as part of Dezeen’s Timber Revolution series. Also featured on the list are towers,…

“What if we were dedicated to building places that cause health?” A Lecture Series featuring Tye Farrow, an internationally-renowned architect from Canada Event Dates: Auckland, 17 Oct / Wellington, 18…

The Living Pā project represents an ambitious endeavour to transform Te Herenga Waka Marae, located on Kelburn Parade at Victoria University of Wellington, into a globally renowned hub of environmental…

If you have registered to attend the ‘Living Pā – Open Day’ on Thursday, 5th October, please take the time to look over the run sheet, safety gear requirements, and…

WHEN: Thursday 5th October 2023, 3:00pm to 5:00pm  The tour will commence with a brief presentation on Victoria Campus. Venue to be advised. Site tour followed by drinks and nibbles…

Kowhai Falls Retail Centre’s innovative and eco-friendly design includes the use of a mass timber structure made from New Zealand pine, including LVL (NelsonPine) and Glulam (Techlam). These materials significantly…

Site visit of AUT’s A1 building. Using an innovative, post-tensioned LVL timber structure, A1 is the most energy efficient site on campus. Event Details: AUT’s A1 building, set for completion…

Event Details: This event is run by the Mid-Rise Wood Construction Programme. The Warehouse group’s latest development ‘Kowhai Falls’ in Warkworth is the most energy efficient building the group has…

Red Stag has completed, or is in the process of completing, 7 large timber buildings as part of Red Stag’s manufacturing site. Key building metrics, design and images have been…

Date: 23 February 2023 | Location: Waipa industrial complex, Rotorua This is your chance to explore 7 different industrial and warehouse building designs and visit 5 of the completed structures…

Media release 23 November 2022 A 2022 survey of design, construction and building professionals into the perceptions and barriers to mass timber use in construction highlights a growing awareness and…

Mid-Rise Wood Construction is bringing you a new series of 3 seminars across the South Island. Jason Cordes of Red Stag TimberLab will be leading the site visits, networking, and…

[Media Release 12 October 2022] Building with renewable engineered wood rather than concrete offers a significant win for the environment and the financials, a new case study has revealed. The…

Places at the Mid-Rise Wood Construction event hosting Enlai Hooi, Global Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen, are quickly filling up. Recently Schmidt Hammer Lassen won an international competition to…

The award winning Auckland City Mission ‘HomeGround’ building is the venue for a stand-alone Mass Timber Case Study seminar brought to you by Mid-Rise Wood Construction. This is a fantastic…

Mid-Rise Wood Construction is pleased to welcome Enlai Hooi, Global Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen, to share inspiring insights into the project and to discuss the opportunities for urban…

Mass Timber Site Visit:  We invite all design and construction professionals to a site visit to the Tryp Hotel building project in downtown Wellington JOIN US on 7th April from 4pm.…

Cheaper, quicker, and more environmentally friendly… is this the future of New Zealand’s multi-story construction industry? We talk with Red Stag Timber CEO, Marty Verry about how the Clearwater Quays project, they are delivering…

They’ve found cross-laminated timber wall buildings are just as strong as steel. A new five-storey apartment block is currently being built in Christchurch, but it’s a bit different than normal.…

Exciting new research has demonstrated cross-laminated timber wall buildings are just as strong as steel and offer significant environmental benefits. The findings from EQC-funded research by Associate Professor Minghao Li…

Billion-dollar Queenstown development dubbed ‘Alpine Britomart’ a step closer to reality ~ Lakeview | Taumata, the stunning residential, hospitality, and retail precinct planned as an expansion to Queenstown’s CBD has…

[Press Release: 02 December 2021] Case study delivers insights into low carbon apartment building Building with engineered wood instead of concrete and steel offers a significant win for the environment,…

In mid-November, construction professionals and property developers are invited to attend site visits to the Clearwater Quays Apartments, a model building for low-carbon construction in Christchurch.  Earlier this year, open…

[Press Release: 12 October 2021] In mid-November, construction professionals and property developers are invited to attend site visits to the Clearwater Quays Apartments, a model building for low-carbon construction in…

Located in Griffintown, Montreal, the 597,560-square-foot Arbora project aimed to offer 434 condo, townhouse, and rental units in 3 eight-story buildings all with a budget of $130 million CAD. A…

[Press Release – 6 September 2021] Design funding is now available for qualifying, yet-to-be-constructed wood buildings as part of a partnership between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Red…

Press Release – 7 September 2021 Hunt on to find and fund large-scale mass timber buildings Design funding is now available for qualifying, yet-to-be-constructed wooden buildings as part of a…

The reality of climate change is now recognised by governments across the globe. Governments worldwide are acting to restrict and sequester greenhouse gases. Under the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand…

Aurecon is helping to bring one of the world’s largest mass engineered-timber buildings to life – The Nanyang Technological University Academic Building South in Singapore. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is a leader in adopting sustainable materials and innovative construction methods for its campus development. Its latest project, Academic Building South (ABS), is no different and will be built largely from Mass Engineered Timber (MET) to be the…

The 24-storey building, with its 84 meters, is one of the tallest wooden buildings in the world. The Hasslacher Group supplied 777 block-glued glulam columns of the highest strength class in visual quality. Furthermore, CLT wall elements with “Excellentsurface” were produced and further refined by means of a double surface treatment. In addition to this, all CLT elements were delivered with pre-installed windows and a vapour barrier.…

Mjøstårnet, a 18-storey mixed use full-timber building in Norway. Groundworks started in April 2017. Installation of timber structures started in September 2017, and the building was structurally topped out in…

T3, is the work of one of the mass timber moverment’s most leading lights – Micheal Green Architecture (MGA) from Vancouver, Canda Their new LEED Gold Certified mass timber office…

A boutique collection of 14 units, Carbon12 is a glass and timber showpiece located in Portland, Oregon. Its structure is assembled from prefabricated Structurlam GlulamPlus® beams and columns, and CrossLam®…

Currently the single most well-known and iconic tall timber building and most well-documented project this 18-storey building at the University of British Columbia was completed with support from the Canadian…

TTW developed an innovative design for a Catholic Primary School built in Sydney, Australia, in 2018. A full storey depth steel Vierendeel truss system was designed to support the glulam…

The Monash CLT vertical extension was the first CLT project to be undertaken at an Australian university. As the business school operates strictly for students at postgraduate or executive study…

International House Sydney (IHS) is Australia’s first commercial and largest engineered timber building. The structure utilises a spruce CLT and Glulam structure, including floors, columns, walls, roof, lift shaft and…

The existing building would have been able to accommodate an extension of 6 levels with the use of concrete framed construction. The design challenge was to surpass this, in order to deliver a hotel with 220 rooms. The solution was to use Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), so the existing structures were able to support an additional 10 levels, with minimum disruption to the tenants. In other words, using CLT was…

Te Pā Tauira – Otago Polytechnic Student Village has 231 beds in two wings of student accommodation, with single and single ensuite bedrooms in the five-storey west wing and a…

The Auckland City Mission is a charitable organisation that provides professional health and social services to marginalised Aucklanders. Established in 1920, the City Mission forms an important part of the…

DCA archtects won an open design competition for this project. The concept was informed by the two distinct functional requirements of timber workshop and academic spaces. The metaphor of saw…

This building is the built intersection of paired aspirations; the Nelson region’s requirement for a leading edge arts teaching facility and the NZ government’s objective for a landmark timber structure…

Completed in 2022, the Clearwater Quays Apartment in Christchurch, a five-level, luxury, residential apartment, is not just carbon neutral, it’s carbon negative, sequestering over a million kilograms of CO2 by…

While no new hospitals have been built in Australasia using mass timber there are several examples in other parts of the world, with Canada having the most. Prior to the…

Zaha Hadid Architects has won planning permission for the world’s first wooden football stadium, which will be built in Gloucestershire, England for football club Forest Green Rovers. When complete it…

The Oval, which housed the speed skating events for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. It was a signature structure for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and is a precedent-setting example…

The Parklane development was completed as a two-stage, 4 level CLT/ GLULAM project consisting of 80 apartments. Tricon was engaged by the Arvida group early on in the design phase…

A $35 million Lower Hutt primary health hub designed to withstand a one-in-2500-year earthquake is being touted as a New Zealand first. The Hutt Valley Health Hub is being built…

Brock Commons Tallwood House is a mass timber hybrid student residence at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The building consists of a 17-storey mass timber hybrid superstructure atop a…

Aveo Norwest at Sydney’s Norwest Business Park ‘Circa’ precinct is a multi-residential development that delivers high levels of amenity, social, and environmental sustainability within an innovative design and build. Discarding…

Forté Apartments is an Australian and worldwide first for being the world’s tallest timber apartments. Using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), Forte apartments will revolutionize construction methodology globally. Forté, located in…

Aurecon sought to create a world class working environment when searching for new office space to relocate its 600 plus people. The timber option submitted by Lendlease gave Aurecon the…