Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2024 - Week Twentyseven
Ready to discover the latest breakthroughs in sustainable architecture? This week, we're taking you on a journey to New York's Governor's Island, where Bureau H Happold and Stony Brook University are crafting a groundbreaking 10-acre campus. Promising to achieve net-zero energy, water, waste, and carbon standards, this project stands as a testament to innovative, eco-friendly design. You'll learn how this endeavor is set to transform a public space into a global hub for climate science and sustainable architecture, setting new benchmarks for green building practices.
We also turn the spotlight on architect Jennifer Bonner, who's pushing the envelope with her X-Houses concept, a cost-effective, space-conscious innovation in cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction. Plus, get the latest on Element 5's massive expansion aimed at meeting the rising global demand for mass timber, and an exciting update from Germany where Meyer Mellenhoff Holtz is revolutionizing glulam production with new automated technology. Tune in for these compelling stories and more, ensuring you stay informed on the cutting edge of sustainable 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 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 is Paul Cramer, your host.
Speaker 1:Welcome to another week of weekly updates from around the world for all the things that are happening in the Mass Timber Construction land around the world. For all the things that are happening in the mass timber construction land. Don't forget to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode of this podcast, on whatever platform you are listening to me on. And also, don't forget there is a current research project out at the moment. It's a global research looking at circular principles in design, building adaptability, carbon reduction strategies using renewable, sustainable and regenerative design approaches. So if you can contribute to that, the link will be in the show notes for this particular episode and we would be very, very pleased to hear your responses.
Speaker 1:Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mass timber construction land and to New York and Bureau H Happold and Stony Brook University lead. The New York Climate Exchange, in collaboration with anchor institution, stony Brook University and the design lead from SOM Bureau, is transforming a 10-acre campus on New York City's Governor Island into a beacon of sustainability, achieving net zero energy, water, waste and carbon. The New York Exchange will be a bold initiative spearheaded by the City of New York, the Trust for Governor Island and this vision to reimagine a treasured public space as a local and global hub for climate science. The team, consisting of everyone I've mentioned so far, is looking to manifest the mission of exchange in its architecture, landscape and infrastructure through the campus that will be the first in new york city to meet the living building challenge standards, become one of the first cities or sites in the country to achieve true net zero waste certification, meet 100 non-portable potable water demand through rainwater and treated water, and run entirely on electricity that's generated on site. If you'd like to see more, please head to our linkedin feed. And several years ago, architect Jennifer Bonner made headlines for pulling off a single family home project in Old Fort Worth. The project, called House Gables, was among the first homes in the country to be built with cross laminated timber panels, and it remains a source of pride for Bonner and many ATL architect buffs. However, five years later, bonner is looking to replicate that general style in a capability for the cost-effective, space-conscious concept called X-Houses. If you'd like to see this new imagination of CLT housing called X-Houses, head to our LinkedIn feed.
Speaker 1:In the news this week, element 5, who are not content on just producing 50 000 cubic meters of mass timber clt product, has now started work on an expansion to increase its footprint to over 350 000 square feet and it will produce another 50 000 cubic meters of glulam and cross-laminated timber starting in 2025. The 100 million million total expansion allows Element 5 to produce wood beams and columns in addition to panels, serving a broader segment of the $2 billion global mass timber market. According to a 2023 Royal Bank of Canada research report, mass timber accounted for approximately 1% of all building construction materials in North America. The global mass timber market is estimated to reach around $1.6 billion in 2022 and forecasts a rise to over $2 billion in 2024. Analysts estimate that it could reach $4.9 billion by 2030. Canada's share of the total global mass timber market was about $379 million in 2023. The building sector is the third most carbon-intensive industry in Canada accounting for 30% of all emissions in 2022, with 92 million tonnes of CO2e, which comprises of equivalent global warming impact, and Canada aims to cut to about 50 million tonnes of CO2e by 2030.
Speaker 1:And to Germany now, and Meyer Mellenhoff Holtz invests in a fully automated, modern high-frequency press for the production of glulam standard components in its Oldsburg site in Germany. With the new pressing system, oldsburg is making a quantitative leap into the automated processing and production orders and is using the cutting-edge technology to provide the straight components required for glulam standard business. The high frequency plant presses glulam elements with maximum dimensions of 29 centimeters by 130 centimeters by 24.2 meters long, and replaces two hydraulic presses that were in need of repair. As a system provider, abf was commissioned to integrate the new presses in terms of quality control, focus on communication with high-frequency press in the ERP system, enterprise Resource Center system that runs the business, the glue application and conveyor lines, as well as fully controlled automated labeling, pressing glulam bars and automatic collection of data production to increase productivity through a feedback loop.
Speaker 1:Congratulations to everyone at Meyer Mellenhoff it's great to see you optimizing for the future and Auburn University in the US, the College of Forestry, wildlife and Environment will host its first CLT conference in the hotel at Auburn University and the Dixon Conference Center in Auburn in Alabama. The three-day event will be titled the Sustainable Future of CLT in the South Grow, design and Build, and it will be held between October 7 to 9. So please do get your tickets. If you're in the area, head to Auburn University and attend this amazing event. For more details, head to our LinkedIn feed to check out what's happening around the world.
Speaker 1:That's it, folks. That's what's making news around the world this week in Masatima Construction Land. Do not forget the survey link in the bottom of the show notes. If you can contribute to my international research, that would be greatly appreciated. We're looking for all opinions from people through the AEC community. Do share the link to other people that you think might be able to contribute and I am very appreciative for your support. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are in the world today, do not forget to hit subscribe. If you're not subscribed. This is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. Bye.