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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

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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Critical Challenges and Potential for Widespread Adoption of Mass Timber Construction in Australia—An Analysis of Industry Perceptions

Buildings, 2022
The construction industry is one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases, accounting for 38% of global carbon emissions. Recently, interest in mass timber construction has grown, due to its potential benefits in reducing environmental impact ...
Atiq Zaman, Ying-Qi Chan, Emil Jonescu, Iain Stewart   +3 more
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Exploring the Benefits of Mass Timber Construction in the Workplace: A Novel Primer for Research

Buildings
Mass timber construction has recently gained popularity due to its outstanding environmental benefits and building performance, which hold revolutionary potential for the construction industry.
Stephen Whyte, Ryotaro Kaburagi, Victor Gan, Christhina Candido, Behnaz Avazpour, Dorsa Fatourehchi, Ho Fai Chan, Yue Dong, Uwe Dulleck, Sabine Finlay, Jin Zhou, Nick Hewson, Tong Li, Duncan Maxwell, Craig McNulty, Zoltan Sarnyai   +15 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, Conrad Boton, Pierre Blanchet   +2 more
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Advanced Timber Construction Industry: A Review of 350 Multi-Storey Timber Projects from 2000–2021

Buildings, 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, Luis Orozco, Achim Menges   +2 more
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Structural health monitoring data collected during construction of a mass-timber building with a data platform for analysis

Data in Brief, 2021
The George W. Peavy Forest Science Complex, or “Peavy Hall,” is a mass-timber university building that is the subject of a structural health monitoring (SHM) program to create a comprehensive building performance dataset.
Esther J. Baas, Mariapaola Riggio, André R. Barbosa   +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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Advanced Timber Construction Industry: A Quantitative Review of 646 Global Design and Construction Stakeholders

Buildings, 2023
There has been a multi-storey timber construction boom since the start of the millennium. While there is now a body of research on trends, benefits, and disadvantages of timber construction, there is not yet literature on the wider market or the impact ...
Luis Orozco, Hana Svatoš-Ražnjević, Hans Jakob Wagner, Moataz Abdelaal, Felix Amtsberg, Daniel Weiskopf, Achim Menges   +6 more
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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 Conferences
This 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, Kurdi Yumna, De Silva Tharique, Haglund Bruce   +3 more
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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, Christian Dagenais, Pierre Blanchet   +2 more
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