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Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2020 Timber has been considered as a promising building material because of its structural rigidity, environmental sustainability, and renewability nature. In Europe and Australia, timber materials have been used for many different types of construction such ...
Shafayet Ahmed, Ingrid Arocho
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Fire Performance of Self-Tapping Screws in Tall Mass-Timber Buildings
Applied Sciences, 2021 Building elements are required to provide sufficient fire resistance based on requirements set forth in the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC). Annex B of the Canadian standard for wood engineering design (CSA O86-19) provides a design methodology ...
Mathieu Létourneau-Gagnon +2 more
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BIM-Based Checking Method for the Mass Timber Industry
Buildings, 2023 Since the 1990s, mass timber constructions have become more and more popular. This type of construction has characteristics that are ideal for incorporating building information modeling (BIM).
Chloé Paskoff +2 more
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Wood buildings as a climate solution
Developments in the Built Environment, 2020 We conducted a systematic literature search and meta-analysis of studies with side-by-side life cycle analysis comparisons of mid-rise buildings using mass timber and conventional, concrete and steel, building materials.
Austin Himes, Gwen Busby
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Analytical Procedure for Timber−Concrete Composite (TCC) System with Mechanical Connectors
Buildings, 2022 In the construction of modern multi-storey mass timber structures, a composite floor system commonly specified by structural engineers is the timber–concrete composite (TCC) system, where a mass timber beam or mass timber panel (MTP) is connected to a ...
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad +2 more
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Buildings, 2021 The uptake of buildings employing cross-laminated timber (CLT) assemblies and designed to Passivhaus standard has accelerated internationally over the past two decades due to several factors including responses to the climate crisis by decarbonising the ...
Marcus Strang +3 more
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Structural Timber Design in Curricula of Canadian Universities: Current Status and Future Needs
Education Sciences, 2021 Due to the efficiency, sustainability, and advances in firefighting technologies, the allowable height for wood buildings was increased from 4 to 6 storeys in 2015 and will be further increased to 12 storeys in the 2020 edition of the National Building ...
Hossein Daneshvar +4 more
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Sensors, 2023 This study develops a framework for determining the material parameters of layered engineered wood in a nondestructive manner. The motivation lies in enhancing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and quality assurance (QA) for engineered wood or mass timber,
Nemish Atreya, Pai Wang, Xuan Zhu
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Overcoming Construction Barriers to Mass Timber Adoption in the Inland Northwest: A Case Study of the ICCU Arena [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study investigates the construction-related challenges facing the adoption of locally sourced mass timber in the Inland Northwest, with particular focus on the Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) Arena in Moscow, Idaho.
Walsh Todd +3 more
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Market Assessment of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Fabricated from Red Pine in Ontario
Forest Science and TechnologyThis study explores the suitability and potential market acceptance of red pine (Pinus resinosa) for Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) in Ontario. The research is motivated by growing interest in regional timber utilization and the need to diversify CLT raw ...
Fanxuan Sun +2 more
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