Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Market Updates - Dec 2024 - Week Fourtynine
Unlock the secrets of mass timber construction as we transport you inside Google's revolutionary head office, crafted from sustainable bio-based materials. Experience firsthand the transformative power of natural daylighting and biophilic design, and see why the Pac-Man room is a must-see in this architectural marvel. We'll guide you through the benefits of cross-laminated and glue-laminated timber, revealing how these advanced technologies enhance aesthetics and performance. Your curiosity piqued? Head over to our LinkedIn for exclusive insights and footage.
Journey to Europe where Timber House is leading a mission to cut the construction sector's carbon footprint by harnessing underutilized wood species and post-consumer timber. This ambitious project aims to rejuvenate sustainable building practices across the continent. We'll also take you to Germany for a look inside Vekler's Innovation Factory, a breathtaking edifice that perfectly marries creativity and sustainability. Plus, discover a remarkable wooden pergola in Peru that seamlessly blends heritage with contemporary design, fostering community spirit. Tune in for these inspiring stories and see the future of construction unfold.
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 Kramer, 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 Kramer, your host. Welcome to another weekly episode of the Mass Timber Construction Around the World Global News Update. And we're getting very, very close to the holiday season now in the month of december. Hope you're keeping well. Don't forget to subscribe, comment, like or share our posts on social media feed. And, of course, there's great articles, great documents and great videos being uploaded all the time, so keep up with the latest news.
Speaker 1:Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mastimber construction land and the latest news. Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mass timber construction land. And the big news this week is the announcement that you can have a look inside Google's head office. Now Google's head office is made of mass timber and there is an amazing video which walks through the project so you can have a look at it. It talks about all the sustainability benefits of using bio-based materials wood materials, natural daylighting, the use of biophilic treatments, the well-being, the performance and the increased aesthetic that is created from having cross laminated and glue laminated timber within the building. If you'd like to check out more, please head to our LinkedIn feed to see the videos, and there's a couple of articles as well, with some amazing photos. I am particularly in awe of the Pac-Man room, which is one of the main rooms that you can break out into if you go to the Google head office.
Speaker 1:And Timber House kicks off its mission to advance wood construction in europe, aiming to slash the built environment carbon footprint. And in early november, timber house the research and innovation project, kicked off in copenhagen. It was led by danish technology institute and timber house aims to significantly reduce co2 in the construction sector, which is responsible for about 40 percent of global CO2 emissions when you consider operational carbon as well. Despite its recognized climate and carbon benefits, widespread adoption of timber materials is still slow and Timberhouse seeks to accelerate this with the uptake in construction, harnessing potential current underutilized wood species, post-consumer wood to create sustainable, high-performance construction products and designs.
Speaker 1:To Germany Now, and an innovation factory by Hellebron, by Vekler. Vekler consists of a cube with scaled glass facade is reflected on the water where it's located, with a striking white glazed timber construction, v-shaped column and clear, visible use of transparent materials in the baffle palette to the double facade. And the architecture of the new business incubator is intended to radiate sustainability, engineering skills and inventiveness inside the cube. It creates spaces for startups of different sizes to achieve even better results and is part of the architect's idea to make grouped workspaces around a five-story atrium. Tea rooms in the galleries encourage dialogue and the fire protection concept with sprinkler system allows transparent views through to the building. The eight-meter-deep column-free office are spanned by prefabricated timber composite ceilings and the timber frames of the external walls, using V columns to stiffen them, and the delivery of the site is prefabde. And look at the Innovation Factory article. Detailde. And look at the Innovation Factory article.
Speaker 1:In Peru have created wooden pergolas that fuel a 700 square meter courtyard behind a neoclassic mansion in the district, near the home of the headquarters of the French Cultural Association, allianz Francisca de Lima. Standing over 7 metres tall and attaching a roofline of its neighbouring building. It was given heritage status in 2007 and the contemporary shelter now aims to give the association a new presence on the street and act as a meeting place for people in the French Peruvian community. The building consists of a structure that's covered with fixed translucent carbonate sheets, protects the space from the sun and the rain, but features amazing red glulam structures that shine as a bold contrast in the pavilion area. That creates a dialogue between the neighboring community and the height and the rhythm of the vertical elements within the building. According to the report on Dazeen, if you'd like to have a look at more at K&M Architectures' pergola that has a historic building in Peru attached to it, please head to our LinkedIn feed or to the Dazeen magazine online.
Speaker 1:And the Woodmill St Columbus RC High School sets Passive House record. It is set to be the largest Passive House education building in the UK and AHR's new school in the area exemplifies a dedication to going beyond the traditional indoor learning. Woodmill and St Columbus RC High School is a well wellbeing, collaboration and community inclusive project and UK's largest building uniting Woodmill High School and RC Columbia High School. Its learning spaces are high quality, available to pupils and the wider community, with distinct visual markers that separate entrances to the school's opening and independently showing their individual identities by drawing strength from shared spaces. There is some great diagram infographics that show you all of the Passive House treatment to the building. So you head to our LinkedIn feed or you search for the article Woodmill and St Columbus RC High School Passive House Record. You will be able to see those details and we have discussed this on the podcast previously.
Speaker 1:But just as a reminder, the new commercial timber guide handbook launched in the uk is a collaboration between property developers, insurers, technical experts and set to launch the uk's first commercial timber guidebook. The guidebook is an initiative by Elliot Wood of Warthysselton Architects, ofr Consultants, working with specialist insurance companies, lignum Risk Partners to engage in the wider sector. The project kickstarted with £200,000 as a grant from Built by Nature. The guidebook aims to drive the adoption of timber by demonstrating both its technical viability and its insurability. The project team worked directly with architects, developers and engineers to create a consensus of good practice on how to incorporate structural timber into new buildings. The guidebook has input from the country's leading fire engineers, resulting in unprecedented cross-industry consensus around how to achieve fire safety in timber office buildings of various typologies. If you'd like to see more, you can head to the UK First Commercial Timber Guidebook, or you can go to the Build by Nature site and have a look at the project. You can download and register it, and Timber Development UK is also another place you can go to go and grab the guide.
Speaker 1:And that's it, folks. That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land. I hope you had a great week. We look forward to bringing you news for another couple of weeks and then we're going on a break until 2025. 2025 will be our fifth year of doing the podcast, every week an episode coming out. We do apologize, we've been a little bit slower this year. There has been a lot going on and so it's a lot of catch up. But thank you for sticking around. Thank you for being part of our journey. Don't forget to like, subscribe, share or comment on any of our posts. Make sure you download resources, engage in research, put manuscripts into our journal, academic journal publication, and we look forward to catching up with you very, very soon. It's good morning, good afternoon and good evening, wherever you are in the world. Today. This is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. Thank you.