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Life Cycle Assessment of the Construction Process in a Mass Timber Structure
Sustainability, 2023 Today, the application of green materials in the building industry is the norm rather than the exception and reflects an attempt to mitigate the sector’s environmental impacts. Mass timber is growing rapidly in the construction field because of its long span, speed of installation, lightness and toughness, carbon sequestration capabilities ...
Mahboobeh Hemmati +2 more
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Buildings, 2021 The uptake of buildings employing cross-laminated timber (CLT) assemblies and designed to Passivhaus standard has accelerated internationally over the past two decades due to several factors including responses to the climate crisis by decarbonising the ...
Marcus Strang +3 more
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2021 Timber usage in the Australian construction industry has significantly increased due to its strength, aesthetic properties and extended allowances recently introduced in building codes.
Amitha Jayalath +4 more
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Experimental investigations of connections for robustness of mass timber buildings [PDF]
, 2023 Recent growth in mass timber construction has raised concerns about preventing disproportionate and progressive collapse, emphasizing the need for performance-based design due to general lack of understanding the behaviour of mass timber connections ...
Przystup, Alicja Czesława
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Monitoring Moisture Performance of Cross-Laminated Timber Building Elements during Construction
Buildings, 2019 There are currently no standards regulating water management for mass timber elements during construction, little knowledge of impacts of moisture exposure (wetting and drying performance, dimensional stability, checking), and few precedents serving as ...
Evan Schmidt, Mariapaola Riggio
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Solar timber kilns: State of the art and foreseeable developments [PDF]
, 2009 Analysis of the evolution in solar heated drying kilns in recent decades shows that there have been a series of modifications to optimize their thermal and drying efficiency.
LUNA, David +2 more
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Mass timber: Improving on-site productivity for multi-storey construction [PDF]
, 2021 University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.Mass timber is a prefabricated, panelised form of building with many benefits such as faster construction and a reduction in both process waste and environmental impact.
Brisland, Richard E.
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Dynamic Characterization and Vibration Analysis of a Four-Story Mass Timber Building
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019 Mass timber construction has been gaining momentum in multi-story residential and commercial construction sectors in North America. As taller mass timber buildings are being planned and constructed, in-situ dynamic tests of this type of construction can ...
Ignace Mugabo +3 more
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Identification and Trend Analysis of Multistorey Timber Buildings in the SUDOE Region
Buildings, 2023 The construction sector has one of the most polluting economic activities. In this context, several policies are being launched by the European Union to promote the transition to a sustainable economy, and timber construction is a safe way to contribute ...
Luis-Alfonso Basterra +4 more
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Mass Timber Productivity- the Significance of Reduction in Non-Value Add Activities during On-Site Installation Sequence [PDF]
, 2019 The recent uptake of Mass Timber (M.T.), a prefabricated timber panelised form of construction, provides a potential sustainable resource to facilitate improved productivity outcomes to the construction industry. However, in Australia as well as U.S. and
Forsythe, P +5 more
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