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In Corvallis, Oreg., the Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex at Oregon State University aims to achieve a distinction among the world’s experimental research labs: It will be the first all-mass-timber lab meeting rigorous vibration criteria (2000 micro-inches per second, or MIPS).
The Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project in Duncan, British Columbia, features an expansive community hall featuring mass timber construction. The hall, designed to promote social interaction and connection to give patients, families, and staff a warm and welcoming environment, connects a Diagnostic and Treatment (“D&T”) Block and Inpatient Tower.
Mass timber is a materials and design approach that holds immense potential to transform the future of the commercial building industry, as well as our environment.
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New material is substitute for concrete and steel in multi-story projects.
The project received a Wood Innovation Grant that will help spur construction of the Hastings + Chivetta-designed project.
The building’s design, building materials, and commercial tenants are all focused on the key aspect of sustainability.
The wood, concrete, and glass building will rise approximately 233 feet when finished.
The TimberLine Series pairs a high-strength steel subframe with a wood-veneered metal cover cap to produce a slender fire-rated frame.
C.F. Møller’s design was selected as the winner of a competition organized by Riksbyggen in Västerås.
Real wood veneer panels evoke warmth, texture, and color of a football.
The mixed-use towers would each rise 36 stories into the sky and connect via rooftop skybridges.
The use of Douglas fir glulam beams can obviate the need for steel beams, even for walls up to 14 feet in height.
