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Proposal for Defining a Tall Timber Building [PDF]

Journal of Structural Engineering, 2016
Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views expressed in this Forum article do not necessarily reflect the views of ASCE or the Editorial Board of the journal.
Foster, Robert M., Reynolds, Thomas P. S., Ramage, Michael H.   +2 more
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Timber Buildings Deconstruction as a Design Solution toward Near Zero CO2e Emissions

Buildings, 2023
The overall reduction in the environmental impacts of the construction industry is a complex process that requires methodological and applicative studies on the evaluation of the sustainability of the life cycle, related to both individual product and of
Giacomo Di Di Ruocco, R. Melella, Laura Sabatano   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ENVISIONING MASS TIMBER BUILDINGS FOR CIRCULARITY: LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF A MASS TIMBER BUILDING WITH DIFFERENT END-OF-LIFE (EOL) AND POST-EOL OPTIONS

World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023), 2023
: The foundation of the circular economy in the construction sector is based on implementing the deconstruction and reuse of buildings, providing the potential for a closed loop of building materials within the supply chain.
Namhyuck Ahn, Christina Bjarvin, M. Riggio, L. Muszyński, L. Schimleck, C. Pestana, Ambrose Dodoo, M. Puettmann   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Potential Contribution of Modular Volumetric Timber Buildings to Circular Construction: A State-of-the-Art Review Based on Literature and 60 Case Studies

Sustainability, 2023
When facing the increasing demands of the housing market and balancing the requirements of sustainable development in the construction sector, building design methods should practise material conservation and adopt carbon reduction measures to alleviate ...
J. Li, Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen, Markus Hudert   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Trees to Skyscrapers: Holistic Review of the Advances and Limitations of Multi-Storey Timber Buildings

Buildings, 2022
Products derived from trees have been used by mankind for thousands of years, where timber has a long tradition as an ecological construction material.
Marcelo González-Retamal, Éric Forcael, Gerardo Saelzer-Fuica, Mauricio Vargas-Mosqueda   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Accurate Finite Element Model to Study the Progressive Collapse of Post-and-Beam Mass Timber Buildings [PDF]

, 2023
The structural behaviour of mass timber buildings under the removal of a load bearing element is complex. To well understand this phenomenon and ultimately develop scientifically based design guidelines against progressive collapse for this type of ...
Gunalan, S, Lyu, Chunhao, Guan, Hong, Gilbert, BP, Guan, H, Gilbert, Benoit P., Leggate, William, Leggate, W, Lyu, C, Shanmuganathan, Gunalan, Karampour, Hassan, Karampour, H, Department of Primary Industries, Queensland   +12 more
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Comparative Cradle-to-Grave Life Cycle Assessment of Low and Mid-Rise Mass Timber Buildings with Equivalent Structural Steel Alternatives

Sustainability, 2021
The objective of this paper was to quantify and compare the environmental impacts associated with alternative designs of typical North American low and mid-rise buildings. Two scenarios were considered: a traditional structural steel frame or an all-wood
K. Allan, A. Phillips
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Survey of the design of timber-concrete hybrid buildings in Sweden

, 2023
There is a growing interest in timber buildings in Sweden and increased availability of Glulam (GLT) andparticularly Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) products.
Larsson, Carl, Dorn, Michael, Dorn, Michael,, Larsson, Carl,   +3 more
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Key dating features for timber-framed dwellings in Surrey [PDF]

, 2013
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ The Vernacular Architecture Group 2013. MORE OpenChoice articles are open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 ...
Moir, A
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Multiple criteria assessment of high-rise timber buildings

Engineering Structures and Technologies, 2019
Although the majority of high-rise buildings are constructed from concrete and steel, there is a growing interest in the new generation of multi-storey timber buildings around the world and several ecologically sustainable structural systems have already
Laura Tupėnaitė, Viktorija Žilėnaitė, Loreta Kanapeckienė, Seyed Masoud Sajjadian, Tomas Gečys, Lina Sakalauskienė, Jurga Naimavičienė   +6 more
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