Case Study

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…