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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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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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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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Mass timber – the emergence of a modern construction material

Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance, 2017
In the move towards sustainable construction, timber and wood-based products are becoming increasingly important structural materials. The introduction of mass timber products with excellent load carrying characteristics allows timber to be used in larger, more complex structures.
Annette M Harte
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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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A Framework for Assessing the Environmental Benefits of Mass Timber Construction

Procedia Engineering, 2017
Abstract The construction industry represents one of the most significant contributors to human-induced environmental damage. Many of the negative consequences on the environment result from the extraction, processing and manufacture of construction materials and components.
Robert H Crawford
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Study on Smoke Leakage Performance in Mass Timber Construction Taking Cross-Laminated Timber Walls as an Example

Fire
In contemporary building design, partition walls combined with doors and windows are commonly used to control the spread of smoke. Understanding the smoke leakage characteristics of cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls is crucial for enhancing safety. This
Wen-Yao Chang, Ching-Yuan Lin, Ying-Ji Chuang, Meng-Ting Tsai   +3 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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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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