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

open access: yes, 2020
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Prelovšek Niemelä, Eva   +6 more
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Mass timber building material in the U.S. construction industry: Determining the existing awareness level, construction-related challenges, and recommendations to increase its current acceptance level

open access: yesCleaner 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
doaj   +1 more source

Building Affordable Homes with Mass Timber Construction

open access: yesInternational Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 2022
With the explosion in increased population migration to metro cities, housing infrastructure poses to be one of the biggest challenges in India as well as other countries. Housing in-equality, affordability and homelessness are persistent and complex challenges in our society. United Nations in the year 2015 has adopted Sustainable Development Goals or
openaire   +2 more sources

Structural Timber Design in Curricula of Canadian Universities: Current Status and Future Needs

open access: yesEducation 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
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging Structural Health Monitoring Data Through Avatars to Extend the Service Life of Mass Timber Buildings

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2022
Mass timber construction systems, incorporating engineered wood products as structural elements, are gaining acceptance as a sustainable alternative to multi-story concrete or steel-frame structures.
Mariapaola Riggio   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical Analysis on Global Serviceability Behaviours of Tall CLT Buildings to the Eurocodes and UK National Annexes

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is an innovative engineered timber product and has been widely used for constructing tall timber buildings due to its excellent structural performance and good strength with its multi-layers of boards in both perpendicular ...
Xuan Zhao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vibration Attenuation in a High-Rise Hybrid-Timber Building: A Comparative Study

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Recent developments in engineered timber products, and their availability, durability, and renewability, have led to taller and more flexible buildings. However, these buildings may experience excessive vibrations, resulting in safety and serviceability ...
Suvash Chapain, Aly Mousaad Aly
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Advanced Timber Construction Industry: A Review of 350 Multi-Storey Timber Projects from 2000–2021

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Throughout the last two decades the timber building sector has experienced a steady growth in multi-storey construction. Although there has been a growing number of research focused on trends, benefits, and disadvantages in timber construction from ...
Hana Svatoš-Ražnjević   +2 more
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Sustainable Mass Timber Structures—Selected Issues in the Structural Shaping of Tall Buildings

open access: yesApplied 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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Experimental dynamic collapse response of post-and-beam mass timber frames under a sudden column removal scenario

open access: yes, 2021
In this study, an experimental program was carried out to investigate the dynamic behaviour of post-and-beam mass timber frames, manufactured from LVL structural products, under a sudden column removal scenario.
Underhill, ID   +4 more
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