Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Market Updates - Aug 2024 - Week Thirtytwo
Can innovative construction methods redefine our urban landscapes and contribute to sustainable living? Discover the groundbreaking strides in mass timber construction as we spotlight the Chartered Institute of Building's Sterling Prize nominees, including industry giants Gilbert Ash, Morgan Sindel, and McLaren. This week, we celebrate the Chowdhury Walk social housing project in East London, praised for its eco-friendly design using CLT, triple-glazed windows, and photovoltaic panels. Plus, get an inside look at Perth's first timber hybrid office tower, WS2, a pioneering development in sustainable commercial construction.
Join us as we delve into the transformative projects shaping the future of engineering education. Learn how Knauf's prefabricated timber frame panels are setting new standards for zero-built environments at the New Model Institute of Technology and Engineering's Skylon campus in Hereford. We'll also share updates on must-attend events like the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland and the inaugural Rothes School in Australia. Don’t miss this episode packed with insights that are reshaping the mass timber construction industry.
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, and we are the official media partners for the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, oregon, in March 2025. The International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, oregon, in March 2025. So get your tickets, book your hotel accommodation and we'll see you in Portland in 2025.
Speaker 1:Don't forget to hit subscribe and make sure that you never miss an episode of our weekly podcast updater. Don't forget all the special guest episodes that are interlaced in between all the updaters to bring you the most important information from around the world each week. Let's have a look at what's making news this week in mass timber construction land and the COIB chartered company. Among contractors who are shortlisted for the Sterling Prize, the Chartered Institute of Building Company, gilbert, ash, morgan, sindel and McLaren are some of the contractors that turned architects heads when they were looking at the RIB sterling price, the primary project we have featured on the LinkedIn feed is the Chowdhury Walk in London, which is Neil Cott construction with Momentum Engineering and SGA Consulting, and the judges said it was an exemplary blueprint for social housing in East London development and was designed to minimize its embodied and operational carbon footprint. The 11 new homes were constructed using CLT and triple glazed windows and they have photovoltaic panels on their mono pitched roof. If you'd like to have a look at this amazing image of this project, you can go and check it out on our linkedin feed.
Speaker 1:And to western australia, in the city of perth, the official opening of perth's first timber hybrid office tower, where australia square 2, or ws2, stands as a harbinger for change in the approach needed for developers and tenants to meet and deliver sustainable commercial developments into the future. Ws2, developed by GDA property, is currently leased at 90% capacity and was officially opened last week by the deputy premier, making a historic occasion. The GDI's CEOhen burns says the success of the timber hybrid place positioned the sustainability and the particular embodied carbon and scope emissions at the forefront of design thinking and provided a resolution for a climate, built environment and canal for insulation has revealed how its products were used in the bespoke timber frame panel building for the New Model Institute of Technology and Engineering, or NMITE, skylon campus at Hereford. Higher education providers, resources to group founders, teachers, donors and a cohort of young designers to providing an integrated engineering solution for the sustainably conscious, zero-built environment. The organization required the campus facilitate an unconventional style of teaching and reflected an aspiration of the institution, as well as making the campus itself the object for students to learn more about timber construction. Knauf was involved in the prefabricated panels supplied for the construction of the building and you can have a look at the Skylon campus images and our LinkedIn feed.
Speaker 1:Registrations are now open for the 30 early bird discount for the international mass timber conference in march 25 to 27 in portland, oregon in the united states. Included in your pass is complimentary 2025 international mass timber report, which is a 290 page must read tool for mass timber businesses. Complimentary breakfast lunch on the march the 26th and 27th. Unlimited coffee and tea on March 26 and 27. You can view over 180 exhibitors so far and it's expanding, and you can access five educational tracks packed with presentations to help you gain a competitive edge in 2025 and beyond. If you want to get in early, please do so. 30% discount applies now and if you've got a group going you can get a discount for groups as well.
Speaker 1:And Rotho school is heading to Australia, coming to Melbourne on the 12th and 13th of November and Sydney on the 7th and 8th of November. In Melbourne, it will be hosted at Next Timber in Scoresby in Melbourne and in Sydney it will be based at the Civil Engineering Building H20 at UNSW Sydney campus. This is the first time that Rothes School has come to Australia and it will be featuring a theory in practice approach. So if you want to get down there and have a look at what's happening in either Melbourne or Sydney, go to our LinkedIn feed. You can see and access the information about the Rotho School and get to Rotho School. It is worth the effort.
Speaker 1:That's it, folks. That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land. Don't forget to hit subscribe if you want to keep up to date with what's happening around the world in mass timber. And if you want to keep up to date with what's happening around the world in mass timber and if you want to never miss an episode, make sure you link in on our LinkedIn feed. You can also see news videos, snippets of information being posted on a regular basis, and don't forget our special guest episodes. If you want to keep up to date with what experts in industry are providing in terms of mass timber construction, don't forget to check out those, and thank you very much for being part of our journey each week. We really do appreciate it. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, this is signing off on the mass timber construction podcast, so Thank you.