Mass Timber Market Updates - Aug 2024 - Week Thirtyfour

Unlock the future of sustainable building with our latest episode of the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. This week, we're diving into the heart of innovation with highlights from the New York State Green Building Conference, where forward-thinking professionals are reshaping the industry narrative. Explore the architectural splendor of Lever Architecture's 843 North Spring Street project and envision the groundbreaking potential of a 55-story mass timber tower in Milwaukee by Michael Green Architects. These projects aren't just pushing boundaries; they're redefining them.

Join us as we explore the intersection of technology and sustainability. Discover Stuttgart University's new hands-on facility for students in computational design and learn about the Danish Technology Institute's ambitious project to revolutionize wood construction across Europe. Plus, witness Oregon State University's pioneering integration of microfluid technology into mass timber design, backed by a significant federal grant. This episode is a treasure trove of knowledge for anyone passionate about the future of construction and the possibilities of mass timber as a cornerstone of sustainable architecture.

Transcript

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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, and welcome to another weekly episode of the Mass Timber Construction Update, where we bring you news from around the world for all the projects that are happening in mass timber construction land. Don't forget the 30 discount early bird rate for the international mass timber conference, proud sponsors of the podcast, and make sure you hit subscribe so you never miss an episode of the podcast. So we bring you news from around the world each week. Let's have a look at what's making news in Mass Timber Construction land this week. And the New York State Green Building Conference is held again this year and if you'd like to go and contribute, they are taking abstracts for submissions for presentations. So please head to the New York State Green Building Conference website and register your interest, if you're interested in participating as a presenter, or register for the event as an attendee and on our LinkedIn feed there is another feature for Lever Architecture's 843 North Spring Street and you can have a look at some incredible photos that have been taken by the architectural record and it looks at the uh scape of the new project and a sort of twilight way and there's a great little article there about how to get to the building and what it looks like and what it feels like when you are in the space in la. So if you'd like to know more about Leva Architecture's 843 North Street project, please head to our LinkedIn feed.

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Plans have recently been released for the Vancouver studio Michael Green Architects for the development in Milwaukee of a next 55-story tower made principally from mass timber elements, which will be the largest, tallest mass timber engineered wood skyscraper in the world if it is completed. The project sits in the Marcus Center of Central Milwaukee. The multi-tower scheme is led by Neutral. It's currently going through the city's approval process. If you'd like to see some information on this particular project, including some additional photos that are coming through, have a look at our LinkedIn feed. If you're an avid listener to the podcast, you'll remember that we reported on the Albrecht Tower, which was a tower made out of cross-limited timber, using the natural twist and turn of the timber to create this almost iconic structure that sits in the middle of a field. Well, now there is a facility, there is a location that is built next to this tower where university students from Stuttgart University in Germany can now come and do computational design and building type work in the hybrid flax pavilion. So if you'd like to have a look at the images of this amazing tower and the pavilion, please head to our linkedin feed and you can see all the details, some amazing imagery coming out of that project.

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Four-year project led by Danish Technology Institute, sponsored by the European Horizon Fund, gives a group of wood value chain project participants in Europe to internationally develop and test mass timber building systems for multi-story constructions. The ambition of the project is to enable optimized and cost-effective wood construction methods to become common practice, and a consortium of experts have come together to try and help devise the design, technical, economic, legislative and psychological barriers that are associated with wider use of the engineered TIM products, including building in wood, which engages principally in the circularity to reduce the dependence on non-renewable resources such as steel and concrete in the construction of the built environment. If you'd like to see some amazing GIF images of the way that the system's looking to come together, please head to our LinkedIn feed. Finally, today Oregon State University has led efforts to look at microfluid technology for semiconductors in mass timber construction design and manufacturing, and they've received a $500,000 US federal grant. The project will commence very, very soon with 31 tech hubs, including two led by Oregon State. The Accelerator Consortium Awards for Economic Development Administration will allow Oregon State to continue implementing tech hub strategies focusing on establishing the Pacific Northwest as a leader in the Mass Timber area in the next 10 years.

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If you'd like to learn more about Oregon State's project, please head to our LinkedIn feed. And that's it, folks. That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land. I hope you tune in each week to hear the updates. Don't forget our special guest episodes, which are interwoven into our weekly update. Also, do not think that you are missing out unless you are not going to our LinkedIn feed. We have hundreds of articles on the linkedin feed. We aggregate the best information from mass timber around the world and we also bring you all the latest updates in terms of mass timber construction research through our academic research division, and it has an impact factor of 1.558 and growing each year, and there are some amazing articles there, so please do check that out. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world today. Goodbye, this is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. Bye.