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A Comparative Whole-Building Life Cycle Assessment of the Four Framing Systems of the Bakers Place Building Using the Tally LCA Tool

Buildings
The urgent need for climate change mitigation has increased the focus on reducing embodied carbon and energy, particularly in the construction sector.
Nadia Zahabi, Hongmei Gu, Meng Gong, Janet Blackadar   +3 more
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HOLISTIC DESIGN OF TALLER TIMBER BUILDINGS – COST ACTION HELEN (CA20139) [PDF]

, 2023
With the worldwide construction sector being responsible for one third of carbon dioxide emissions, as well as forty percent of the world’s energy use and waste production, a shift to sustainable and renewable construction techniques is crucial ...
Jockwer, Robert,, Šušteršič, Iztok,, Stepinac, Mislav, Palma, Pedro, D’Arenzo, Giuseppe,, Franke, Steffen, Brandon, Daniel,, Šušteršič, Iztok, Brandon, Daniel, Bedon, Chiara, Palma, Pedro,, Casagrande, Daniele,, Fink, Gerhard, Casagrande, Daniele, Fink, Gerhard,, D’Arenzo, Giuseppe, Franke, Steffen,, Stepinac, Mislav,, Jockwer, Robert, Viau, Christian,, Viau, Christian, Bedon, Chiara,, Viau, Christian (author), D'Arenzo, Giuseppe (author), Franke S., Bedon, Chiara (author), Palma, Pedro (author), Viau C., Franke, Steffen (author), Stepinac M., Palma P., Casagrande D., D'Arenzo G., Brandon D., Brandon, Daniel (author), Sustersic I., Fink G., Fink, Gerhard (author), Casagrande, Daniele (author), Jockwer R., Šušteršič, Iztok (author), Stepinac, Mislav (author), Bedon C., Jockwer, Robert (author)   +43 more
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End-of-Life Scenarios for Mass Timber: Assumptions, Limitations and Potentials—A Literature Review

Applied Sciences
This paper presents a literature review exploring the end-of-life (EoL) scenarios for mass timber, focusing on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and circular principles.
Lu Lin, Dario Trabucco, Giovanni Perrucci   +2 more
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Feasibility Study of Mass-Timber Cores for the UBC Tall Wood Building

Buildings, 2018
The UBC Brock Commons building in Vancouver, which comprises of 18 stories and stands 53 m in height, was at the time of completion in 2016 the world’s tallest hybrid wood-based building.
Thomas Connolly, Cristiano Loss, Asif Iqbal, Thomas Tannert   +3 more
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Structural Properties of Commercial Australian Plantation Hardwood CLT

Buildings, 2023
Significant volumes of plantation hardwood are available in Australia to produce value-added engineered wood products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT).
Mateo Gutierrez, Azin Ettelaei, Nathan Kotlarewski, Michael Lee   +3 more
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Building Sustainably: Mass Timber (September 2023) [PDF]

, 2023
Mass timber is an umbrella term for a class of engineered wood building materials, including those created by layering and bonding wood. The best-known example of mass timber is cross-laminated timber, which can be made from small-diameter or diseased ...
Molly Brind'Amour, Savannah Bertrand
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Lateral Load-Resisting System Using Mass Timber Panel for High-Rise Buildings

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017
As global interest in using engineered wood products in tall buildings intensifies due to the “green” credential of wood, it is expected that more tall wood buildings will be designed and constructed in the coming years.
Zhiyong Chen, Ying-Hei Chui
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Outlook for Mass Timber: A Saskatchewan Case Study [PDF]

, 2021
Mass timber, an engineered wood product, is an environmentally acclaimed technological development that aims to compete with concrete and steel as the structural component in mid-rise and tall building construction.
Dandridge, Lindsay
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An Automated Parametric Design Tool to Expand Mass-Timber Utilization Based on Embodied Carbon

Buildings
The building sector accounts for a large percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions, largely from the embodied carbon in common building materials like concrete and steel.
Edward A. Barnett, David W. Dinehart, Steven M. Anastasio   +2 more
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Cross-laminated strand-veneer lumber mass timber panels from commercially produced thermally modified wood strands

Developments in the Built Environment
This study explores the influence of thermal modification on wood strands produced from small-diameter trees and the resulting composite panels, including veneers, laminated strand veneer lumber (LSVL), and cross-laminated strand veneer lumber (CLSVL ...
Rajan Adhikari, Avishek Chanda, Muhammad Khusairy Bin Bakri, Manuel Raul Pelaez-Samaniego, Matthew Aro, Vikram Yadama   +5 more
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