Mass Timber Market Updates - June 2024 - Week Twentyfive

How is mass timber changing the face of construction around the globe? Tune in to our latest episode as we reveal transformative projects and groundbreaking initiatives in the world of sustainable building. From the Forest Products Association of Canada's newly launched mass timber roadmap to the innovative design of the Awana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health in Monterey, California, you'll hear how prefabricated mass timber panels are revolutionizing both construction and community health. We'll also preview the much-anticipated conference at Auburn University, where industry leaders will gather to discuss the future of cross-laminated timber (CLT) in the Southern United States.

Discover how Clemson University's immersive workshop is shaping the future of mass timber education, bringing together experts from 22 colleges to advance research and teaching. We'll also take you inside the Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project in British Columbia, a community-centered design with significant input from local Indigenous communities aimed at fostering a healing environment. Join us as we highlight these visionary projects and more, showcasing the incredible potential of mass timber to redefine architectural and construction practices worldwide. Don't miss this packed episode full of insights and updates on the sustainable future of building.

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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 is Paul Kramer, your host.

Speaker 1: 0:57

Welcome to another exciting episode in the middle of the summer for the Northern Hemisphere and the winter for the Southern Hemisphere. You're right, I'm not having a great time in the cold and the rain. I wish I was in the Northern Hemisphere Looking at the Olympic Games in Paris in about a month's time and enjoying the sun showing. Anyway, let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in the construction land, and the big news out this week is that the Forest Products Association of Canada and the Canadian Wood Council and a variety of other stakeholders have put their minds together to create a mass timber roadmap. The document is featured on our Mass Timber Construction Journal LinkedIn feed and looks at the building industry using Mass Timber Construction roadmap targets thriving using Mass Timber work streams, including through forestry, wood products, manufacturing, architecture, building codes, all the way through safety and design, fire, then construction policy programs and sustainabilities. If you'd like to read this roadmap, you can head to the Mass Timber Construction Journal LinkedIn feed and download the full document. And congratulations to all involved in the project and to Monterey in California now, and a youth mental health campus that is designed to heal people who are recovering from mental health concerns, called the Awana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health. The center features a significant volume of prefabricated mass timber panels. The center challenges the traditional institution box type hospital-like internal environment and transforms it into a place of healing with exposed timber surfaces that provide support through emotional processing and self-empowerment in a well-contained, biophilic, internal treated environment. The images are available on our Mass Timber Construction Journal LinkedIn feed. If you'd like to go and have a look at this incredible project maybe you're doing some work in healthcare settings and can learn something from this please do head to the LinkedIn feed and have a look at those images.

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Today, the Auburn University College of Forestry, wildlife and Environment will host a cross-limited timber conference to be held in the southern United States in October this year. The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Centre will feature a three-day event titled Sustainable Future of CLT in the south grow, design and build. It's held between the 7th and 9th of October and it will have renowned experts from forestry, industry, building science, engineering, the architecture and design community, as well as research trends and developments impacting the advancement of CLT in the south. If you'd like to click the link on our linkedin feed and you'll be able to go straight to the registration to get on board with this event at auburn university in october this year, and from one university to another, the architecture faculty across the us has gained a deeper understanding of the critical role of timber systems can play in decarbonizing the environment during a two and a half day immersive timber design faculty development workshop hosted in May by Clemson University Wood Utilization and Design Institute at the Clemson School of Architecture. The workshop, which was sponsored by the Softwood Lumber Board of the US, was bringing together participants and speakers from 22 different colleges and universities to Clemson to learn about mass timber design and building and the strategies for incorporation of this subject matter into teaching, research and output and practice. If you'd like to read more, you know where to head go to our LinkedIn feed.

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The Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project in Duncan, british Columbia features an expansive community hall featuring mass timber construction. The hall was designed to promote social interaction and connection, to give patients, families and staff a warm, welcoming environment, and it connects to the diagnostic treatment block and inpatient tower. The 607,000 square foot seven-storey facility was designed with extensive input from local Indigenous communities, with meaningful participation from First Nations representatives. The design process is a first step towards rebuilding trust that has been lost over many decades of mistreatment. According to architecture firm parkin, results of the collaboration include 185 rooms that can accommodate traditional burning customs as well as conducting healing. These rooms have independently controlled smoke systems and will allow for the rituals to occur. If you'd like to check out the amazing design concept drawings sitting on our LinkedIn feed, please head there now and have a look.

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So that's it, folks. That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land. I hope that you've had an amazing week. We look forward to bringing you the news next week. Don't forget to hit subscribe. Don't forget to go to our LinkedIn feed and like and comment, and if you do have an academic journal manuscript that you're looking for at home, don't forget to subscribe to this channel and make sure you like or comment on our LinkedIn feed. We look forward to catching up with you next week on the podcast. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening. Wherever you are in the world today, have a great week, thank you.