Mass Timber Construction Podcast

In this special guest episode I talk with CLTP Tasmania CEO Chris Skeels-Piggins about the launch of Cusp Building Solutions. Using CLTP's products, Cusp will operate essentially as the marketing branch of the organisation. To kick things off, they're highlighting their "world-first" hardwood Cross Laminated Timber for the structural timber market. Cusp hardwood CLT is made from Tasmanian Plantation Oak (Eucalyptus Nitens), sourced from certified sustainable plantations around the state. CLTP is tapping into a resource that hasn't previously been used for structural timber in this way. It's an evolution for the timber industry. Please enjoy my conversation with Chris as he outlines the challenges and triumphs of the journey he and his team have travelled in arriving a the world's first commercially available hardwood mass timber products. 

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In this weeks mass timber construction update. The launch of the new $110m Auckland City Mission HQ being finished, tallest NZ wood building. Bates Smart’s 25 King Street Building, located in the Brisbane Showgrounds, has been named the Best Tall Building Under 100 Metres by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The honour, awarded at an international level, recognises the best tall buildings around the world. Glued laminated timber beams spanning 42 metres in length have been hauled from Port Melbourne to South Australia’s Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre construction site, the longest single ‘glulam’ beams ever shipped to Australia, the City of Mount Gambier announces. The University of Newcastle’s newly completed Q Building, has overcome the hurdles of the pandemic to open its doors right on schedule, despite the challenges of incorporating innovative and sustainable materials. Hansen Yuncken used timber extensively throughout the building to reduce embodied carbon and minimise construction waste. CLTP Tasmania has officially launched the world’s first hardwood Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), along with their new brand – Cusp Building Solutions.  Cusp CLT is made from Tasmanian Plantation Oak (Eucalyptus Nitens) sourced from certified sustainable plantations grown in Tasmania. Using a resource that is currently exported as wood chips, they have created a world-leading mass timber product for the Australian building industry. 

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In this week's update, the covers have now come down to reveal the true beauty of the design and construct by Gardner Vaughan Group using the elegant combination of black and gold on the exterior. A recent report produced by the federal government, The State of the Mass Timber Industry in Canada (SMTC) in 2021, displays through an interactive map close to 500 under construction or completed mass timber projects from 2007 to 2019 for a total of 16 million square feet. The heavy timber pieces are being assembled in downtown Milwaukee for what is expected to become the world’s tallest building with a manufactured wood structure. SOS is a pioneer as the first public building in Chicago to fully utilise, and gained permit to use, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). As a renewable and reusable material, it can be recovered at the end of the building life and reused in other buildings. A $140 million apartment tower proposed in Milwaukee’s 3rd Ward advanced with a key design approval on Wednesday. Proposed by international developer Hines, the new building with 295 apartments would replace a parking lot with river frontage at Water Street and St. Paul Avenue. Have a great week!

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A globally-experienced, registered architect,  Simon Topliss is a Principal at  Warren and Mahoney Architects after 10 years at Jackson Clements Burrows (JCB), where he was an Associate Director for the last four years. Prior to JCB, the architect collaborated with Peter Elliot, following a long stint in London. In this special guest episode I discuss several notable projects in the university sector that have a significant and profound impact on the mass timber movement in Australia and New Zealand. We discuss the role of the supplier within and Early Contractor, Sub-Contractor and Supplier Agreement process to enable the very best out of the project teams in driving amazing results under significant pressure to achieve the impossible. Please enjoy my conversation with Simon. 

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In the weekly update, Construction startup Katerra has told employees it plans to shut down, people familiar with the matter said, marking the collapse of the SoftBank-backed company that had raised more than $2 billion to slash the cost of building apartments. Katerra is expected to let go of thousands of employees and is likely to walk away from dozens of construction projects it had agreed to build. Michael Green said, I was hopeful that Katerra could provide a path, though certainly not perfect, to changes that would reduce the cost of buildings, make buildings more environmentally responsible, improve the quality of construction and speed the process of building to the betterment of society. The world needs climate solutions that come from major disruption as well as smaller scale adjustments in how we live and how we build. The world also needs affordable, accessible, safe buildings for humankind. In other news, Hines begins construction of its Melbourne T3. 

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In this very special guest episode, I speak with Clément Quineau who is the Technical Affairs Manager at Union des Industriels et Constructeurs Bois (UICB). The UICB promotes wood material and other bio-based materials. The UICB contributes to the development of markets for wood construction, the training of employees and the attractiveness of trades in the sector. It provides technical, legal, economic and social support to its members, by monitoring regulations and standards. It represents the common interests of the profession. We talk about the significant role that Clément and UICB played in shaping the French timber first movement driving construction in a sustainable way. 

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In the weekly updater, the world's best timber construction video. Let us know what you think. For more by Tomorrow’s Build. The U of A Community Design Center, working in collaboration with the U of A Resiliency Center, has been awarded a 2021 Green Good Design Award for Green Research/Technology by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design.  Due to its specific characteristics, the architecture of the sauna is interesting because it gives us lessons related to efficiency and the beauty of simplicity. BIG has unveiled updated plans for a new transportation hub in the heart of the Swedish city of Västerås. Named the Västerås Travel Center, the 17,000-square-meter structure will bring together all of the city’s transport infrastructure in one continuous landscape, under a dramatic, curved roof.

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In this weeks mass timber construction updater, I talk about welded wood, where researchers from TMI Ltd and the University of Cambridge's Construction Innovation Lab developed "a sustainable process to rapidly join timber elements using linear friction welding." Margulies Perruzzi, one of New England's most innovative architectural and interior design firms, announced today that it has completed renovations and a two-story addition at 69 A Street in South Boston. The new Atlassian HQ in Sydney design aims to support and reflect the company’s core values. among these are an intense focus on workplace wellness and sustainability. Leading U.S. developer and builder Mortenson, in partnership with PGIM Real Estate and Urban Development Partners, has broken ground on its anticipated The Beam. Norwegian architecture studio Helen & Hard has built a cross-section of a co-housing project made from spruce wood in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The former Martinsons’ sawmills in Bygdsiljum and Kroksjön, Sweden will take on the Holmen name from June 1. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing funding support for a variety of wood projects through USDA Forest Service programs. The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires in California are leading some to question the ubiquity of wood-frame and mass timber construction. The Time for Timber campaign has released a white paper that aims to help insurance companies understand the vital role they play in supporting the construction industry to achieve Net Zero status by 2050. 

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In this episode, Seattle-based Green Canopy says it's developing the city's first mass timber modular townhouse project. France’s first foldable house is under construction and will take less than two weeks to complete from start to finish. The timber industry is calling for embodied carbon to be regulated in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) recent inquiry into the sustainability of the built environment. Estonian design and engineering firm Kodasema is getting traction with its range of tiny, modular buildings that work as homes, hotels, cafés, studios and community spaces. There was an open house at the building site of Rotho Blass' automatic warehouse! Skanska’s The Eight in Metro Seattle Nears Groundbreaking. Enjoy!

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In this episode I speak with Rensteph Thompson from Hess Timber. As a project specialist in the field of timber engineering, based in Kleinheubach Germany, has specialised in the development and execution of architecturally challenging projects and can refer to outstanding projects worldwide such as the Museum Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the free-formed foyer of Bunjil Place in Casey, Australia, or the wooden sphere Steinberg in Germany, which with a diameter of 50 metres, is the largest project of its kind in the world. I speak to Rensteph about the challenges in the industry to build, longer, higher and faster no matter the location around the world. Sit back, relax and listen to my conversation with a truly passionate individual seeking to bring free form GLT engineering to the world. 

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