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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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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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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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Monitoring Mass Timber Buildings: A Case Study of the InnoRenew CoE Building

, 2020
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Prelovšek Niemelä, Eva, Niemelä, Aarne, Kutnar, Andreja, Sandak, Anna Malgorzata, Vcelak, Jan, Sandak, Jakub Michal, Šušteršič, Iztok   +6 more
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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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The carbon footprint of future engineered wood construction in Montreal

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
Engineered wood (EW) has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions from the building sector by substituting carbon-intensive concrete and steel for carbon-sequestering wood.
Felicity Meyer, Thomas Elliot, Salmaan Craig, Benjamin P Goldstein   +3 more
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Comparison of Structural Performance of a Multi-Story Reinforced Concrete Building and Its Equivalent Timber Building

Applied Sciences
An increased interest in decreasing the environmental impact of the construction sector and in vertical urbanization has renewed attention to timber as a primary structural material in multi-story buildings. This study investigated whether an existing 10-
Alireza Bahrami, Dina Jaloul, Marco Rasho, Honghao Ren   +3 more
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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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Sustainable Mass Timber Structures—Selected Issues in the Structural Shaping of Tall Buildings

Applied Sciences
The subject of this article is tall buildings with a load-bearing layout made of mass timber, erected between 2009 and 2025. The aim of the study is to introduce a typology and to systematise and synthesise knowledge concerning the spatial and material ...
Hanna Michalak, Karolina Michalak
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