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    Tryp Hotel Mass Timber Site Visit

    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.…
    • Featured Post
  • Featured image for “Low-carbon lifestyle at Clearwater Quays”

    Low-carbon lifestyle at Clearwater Quays

    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…
    • Featured Post
  • Featured image for “Free Open Days at Low-Carbon Demonstration Building for Design Professionals”

    Free Open Days at Low-Carbon Demonstration Building for Design Professionals

    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…
    • News
  • Featured image for “Arbora Residential Project: Montreal’s tallest wooden building”

    Arbora Residential Project: Montreal’s tallest wooden building

    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…
    • Apartments
      Canada
      Case Study
      Video
  • Featured image for “Carbon Zero initiatives using Wood”

    Carbon Zero initiatives using Wood

    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…
    • General
  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    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…
    • Asia
      Case Study
  • Ho Ho Wien, Vienna, Switzerland

    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.…
    • Case Study
      Europe
  • Featured image for “Mjøstårne, Norway”

    Mjøstårne, Norway

    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…
    • Building Types
      Case Study
      Europe
      USA
  • Featured image for “T3 building Minnesota, USA”

    T3 building Minnesota, USA

    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…
    • Case Study
      USA
  • Featured image for “Carbon 12 Portland, Oregon, USA”

    Carbon 12 Portland, Oregon, USA

    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®…
    • Case Study
      USA
  • Featured image for “Tallwood House – Brock Commons Student Residence, Vancouver”

    Tallwood House – Brock Commons Student Residence, Vancouver

    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…
    • Apartments
      Canada
      Case Study
      Video
  • Featured image for “Primary School, Australia”

    Primary School, Australia

    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…
    • Australia
      Case Study
  • Featured image for “Monash Business School, Melbourne”

    Monash Business School, Melbourne

    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…
    • Australia
      Case Study
  • Featured image for “International House Sydney, Lendlease, 2017”

    International House Sydney, Lendlease, 2017

    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…
    • Australia
      Case Study
  • Adina Hotel 55 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne

    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…
    • Australia
      Case Study
  • Featured image for “Otago Polytechnic Student Village”

    Otago Polytechnic Student Village

    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…
    • Case Study
      New Zealand
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    Auckland City Mission (under construction)

    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…
    • Case Study
      New Zealand
  • Featured image for “Toi Ohomai Waipa Wood Processing Workshop, Rotorua”

    Toi Ohomai Waipa Wood Processing Workshop, Rotorua

    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…
    • Case Study
      New Zealand
  • Featured image for “Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Arts & Median”

    Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Arts & Median

    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…
    • Case Study
      New Zealand
  • Featured image for “Clearwater Quays Apartments, Christchurch”

    Clearwater Quays Apartments, Christchurch

    The Clearwater Quays apartments designed by Phil and Roger at Pacific Environments for Red Stag, are leading the way being constructed in engineered mass timber – demonstrating how these materials…
    • Case Study
      New Zealand
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    Hospitals

    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…
    • Building Types
      Healthcare
  • Featured image for “World’s first wooden football stadium”

    World’s first wooden football stadium

    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…
    • Building Types
      Sporting Facilities
  • Featured image for “Richmond Oval – Olympic Speed Skating Facility”

    Richmond Oval – Olympic Speed Skating Facility

    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…
    • Building Types
      Sporting Facilities
  • Featured image for “Arvida Parklane Retirement Village”

    Arvida Parklane Retirement Village

    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…
    • Aged Care Facilities
      Building Types
  • Featured image for “2019 Hutt Valley Health Hub – Lower Hutt, NZ”

    2019 Hutt Valley Health Hub – Lower Hutt, NZ

    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…
    • Building Types
      Healthcare
  • Featured image for “2017 Brock Commons, Canada”

    2017 Brock Commons, Canada

    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…
    • Apartments
      Building Types
  • Featured image for “2018 – The Gardens – Strongbuild, Australia”

    2018 – The Gardens – Strongbuild, Australia

    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…
    • Apartments
      Building Types
  • Featured image for “2012 – Forté Apartments in Melbourne, Australia”

    2012 – Forté Apartments in Melbourne, Australia

    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…
    • Apartments
      Australia
      Building Types
      Video
  • Featured image for “25 King, Brisbane, Australia”

    25 King, Brisbane, Australia

    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…
    • Australia
      Building Types
      Multi-storey Commercial
      Video
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