Mass Timber Market Updates - June 2024 - Week Twentyfour

Can innovative mass timber construction truly revolutionize our approach to sustainable building? Join me, Paul Cramer, on this week's episode of the Mass Timber Construction Podcast, where I promise you'll gain invaluable insights into the latest advancements and projects that are setting new standards in the industry. We're on a mission to explore carbon reduction strategies and market drivers, and we need your input to shape a greener future. Your participation in our research study could be the game-changer we need.

This episode also uncovers groundbreaking initiatives worldwide. From Berlin's Schoenberg district to British Columbia's new corporate hub, the Hive, and from Under Armour's cutting-edge mass timber facility to the eco-friendly Collins House residence hall—these projects exemplify the potential of mass timber in various architectural contexts. Plus, discover how the South Australian government is embracing local mass timber sourcing, propelling the region toward sustainable development. Don't miss these compelling stories and more; this episode is packed with content that will keep you at the forefront of mass timber innovation. Tune in and stay informed!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Ladies and gentlemen, we are live. This is the moment you all have been waiting for. It's time for the global sensation, the one, the only, the undisputed heavyweight podcast in the world the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. And now here's Paul Cramer, your host. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world today, welcome to the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. My name's Paul Cramer, your host, and welcome to another episode of our weekly updater, which we give to you reviewing all the projects around the world in a very short snippet of time. Don't forget to hit subscribe if you want to, and keep up with all the latest episodes from our podcast on all good platforms spotify, apple, etc.

Speaker 1: 1:20

Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mass timber construction land. I need your help. I now require people who want to participate in a research study that helps me explore the built environment and how we build it. In a more research project which looks at everyone's perspectives on the global mass timber construction market. I'm looking specifically at carbon reduction strategies, market drivers, especially focusing on imperative shifts towards low carbon practices in the construction sector from a socio-economic, environmental and housing markets perspective. There's three parts to the research. You can do the online international survey so anyone in the world can participate in that, and then there are interviews and focus groups available for people only as residents in Australia. If you'd like to participate in this particular research proposal and project, you can head to the Mass Timber Construction Journal LinkedIn feed and look for the details there. And the team at Next Timber, which is part of Timberlink, have just announced that the South Australian government has committed to sourcing its mass timber from the next timber plant. Details of the media release from Timberlink are available on our social media feed. So head to our LinkedIn and you'll be able to see the media release.

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And we feature a project which is a timber house, or lint wood house, in Berlin's Schoenberg district. It is a creative living concept which is in the metropolitan location, featuring lifestyles for the future as a key theme. The new multi-story apartment block is located in the busy southwest of the city. It is created as part of an urban development project. The area known as Schoenberg is described as a neighborhood between the railway station and the commuter train area, in an urban quarter that is slated to rise in the area by 2025. So if you'd like to go and see some interesting photos of these mass timber buildings in the middle of Berlin head to our LinkedIn feed.

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We've always maintained that insurance and the banking industry will be a great contributor to the advancement in mass timber construction, and that is no more true than it is in British Columbia with the insurance corporation of British Columbia, the ICBC corporate head office, about to move into and relocate to the corporate hub of the Hive at 2050 Keith Drive, which is located immediately adjacent the VCC Clark Station on Skyrail's Millenia Line, which is currently under construction at the intersection of 6th Heath and Keith Drive. The Hive is a 10-story mass timber office building and the team at Wood Central are reporting that Under Armour has a date for the move-in to their first wave of the corporate office that will be at Tide Point and Locust Point for a purpose-built facility which is five-story, being nearly complete, a mass timber design that has allowed the crews to reduce the bottlenecks that are delivered in traditional project and produce at a rapid pace. The 26,000 square meter building is made up of CLT and it is spearhead by the architectural firm Gensler, and JJ Rivers, who's a principal and director of Gensler, spoke to the Wood Central team, so if you'd like to go and see some more amazing images on the Teammate Building 2 building, which is setting new net zero targets by reducing embodied and operational energy and carbon, and you can see the design on our linkedin feed. Or head to wood central and read the article. And after three years of constructing and 30 000 square foot residence hall, the 46-bed eco-friendly building called Collins House was designed by Opal Architecture of Belfast and the mass timber structure was installed by the affiliated company Opal Bill. The structure is blown in wood fiber insulation from the main company in timber, hp, which sources small diameter pulp trees, residual chips and the state produces rigid insulation. And the mass timber building has these infill walls collins. House sequestered biogenic carbon is expected to perform to passive house energy standards.

Speaker 1: 6:45

If you'd like to catch up on all the news around this amazing project, please head to our LinkedIn feed. And so that's it, folks. That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land. I hope that you're doing well and we will look forward to catching up with you again in another week's time. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening. Wherever you are in the world today, don't forget to hit subscribe. My name is Paul Kramer, signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. Thank you.