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HOLISTIC DESIGN OF TALLER TIMBER BUILDINGS - COST ACTION HELEN (CA20139) [PDF]

World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023), 2023
: With the worldwide construction sector being responsible for one third of carbon dioxide emissions, as well as forty percent of the world’s energy use and waste production, a shift to sustainable and renewable construction techniques is crucial ...
G. Fink, Robert Jockwer, I. Šušteršič, M. Stepinac, P. Palma, Chiara Bedon, D. Casagrande, S. Franke, G. D'Arenzo, D. Brandon, C. Viau   +10 more
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Structural Health Monitoring System Based on FBG Sensing Technique for Chinese Ancient Timber Buildings [PDF]

Sensors, 2019
Due to the long-term service, Chinese ancient timber buildings show varying degrees of wear. Thus, structural health monitoring (SHM) for these cultural and historical treasures is desperately needed to evaluate the service status.
Shao-Fei Jiang, Ze-Hui Qiao, Ni-Lei Li, Jian-Bin Luo, Sheng Shen, Ming-Hao Wu, Ying Zhang   +6 more
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Wind-induced vibration serviceability of ten multi-storey timber buildings [PDF]

Open Research Europe
Multi-storey timber buildings are prone to wind-induced vibrations, especially due to their lightweight nature, which can lead to occupant discomfort. Vibration serviceability may be a critical design criterion for such structures.
Blaž Kurent, Boštjan Brank
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Selected Aspects of Sustainable Construction—Contemporary Opportunities for the Use of Timber in High and High-Rise Buildings

Energies
Due to the favourable pro-environmental properties of timber, including the origin of the raw material from renewable sources, ease of reuse, negative carbon footprint, low specific weight, possibility of prefabrication, etc., there is increasing ...
Hanna Michalak, Karolina Michalak
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Wind-induced vibration performance of early Chinese hall-style timber buildings

Journal of Wood Science, 2021
Traditional Chinese timber buildings are lightweight, flexible, and quite vulnerable to wind. This paper aims to present a methodology for evaluating the wind-induced vibration performance of early Chinese hall-style timber buildings based on numerical ...
Yidan Han, Qing Chun, Hui Jin
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Future buildings as carbon sinks: Comparative analysis of timber-based building typologies regarding their carbon emissions and storage

Frontiers in Built Environment
The building and construction sector is responsible for a large share of carbon emissions resulting in the need to reduce them to mitigate climate change. Timber construction methods promise to lower emissions combined with biogenic carbon storage in the
Daria Dzhurko, Ben Haacke, Asta Haberbosch, Linde Köhne, Nora König, Frida Lode, Antonia Marx, Luka Mühlnickel, Nina Neunzig, Annika Niemann, Henrieke Polewka, Lea Schmidtke, Pia Luz Marie Von der Groeben, Karl Wagemann, Farah Thoma, Clemens Bothe, Galina Churkina   +16 more
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The progress in repair research of ancient timber structure [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Ancient architecture carries Chinese culture, which is helpful to understand the tradition. Timber structure is the main structure of ancient Chinese buildings, and most of the ancient timber structures have been overserved and have been damaged to ...
Sisi Li, Xun Zhou
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Fire safety in timber buildings

, 2022
This chapter provides an overall description of the strategy for delivering fire safety in timber buildings. As in the design of all buildings, the goals are to provide life safety for occupants, safe access for firefighters and protection of affected ...
Buchanan, Andrew, Dunn, Andrew, Just, Alar, Klippel, Michael, Maluk, Cristian, Östman, Birgit, Wade, Colleen   +6 more
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High-Rise Residential Timber Buildings: Emerging Architectural and Structural Design Trends

Buildings, 2023
High-rise residential timber buildings (≥8 stories) are an emerging and promising domain, primarily owing to their capacity to deliver notable environmental and economic benefits over the entire span of their existence.
H. E. Ilgın
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Approach Concerning Climate Change and Timber Building Resilience: Araucanía Region, South Chile

Buildings, 2021
This study analysed climate change effects concerning the resilience of timber buildings located in southern Chile, specifically in two cities: Collipulli and Temuco (Araucanía Region).
Andrés J. Prieto, Konstantin Verichev, Ana Silva   +2 more
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