In addition, mass timber is ideal for addressing embodied carbon goals in retrofits, additions, and renovations and is flexible enough to support a variety of student-centric design considerations.
For some architects, other forms of mass timber eventually lead to interest in cross-laminated timber. A swirling wood structure at the St. Louis Science Center is made of huge arched beams ...
The Mass Timber Demonstration Fire Test Program has shown that mass timber buildings perform similarly to noncombustible constructionPhoto courtesy of Canadian Wood Council In the quest for ...
which was used to manufacture so-called mass-engineered timber—superthin layers glued into panels and beams that can be fashioned into columns, walls, roofs and more. The trouble is spruce has a ...