Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Market Updates - Jan 2025 - Week One
What if mass timber could unlock a sustainable future for the construction industry? Join us as we explore the groundbreaking advancements in mass timber construction and how they're reshaping our built environment. I'm your host, Paul Kremer, and I’m thrilled to guide you through the latest episode of the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. We kick off the year with an inspiring story from Melbourne, where Quincy Melbourne has set a remarkable precedent by becoming the first hotel in Victoria to earn the Neighbours Climate Active carbon neutral certification, all thanks to the innovative use of mass timber. The episode also takes you on a journey through the rise of mass timber buildings with insights from Ohio State University, highlighting the eco-friendly benefits and economic implications of this transformative construction material.
But that’s not all—get ready to be captivated by the stunning Grand Ring at the Osaka 2025 Expo, made entirely from glue-laminated timber. Check out the dazzling nighttime images that capture its majestic beauty. We also spotlight an exciting opportunity: the $1.8 million mass timber construction competition for building sustainable schools, with entries closing soon. Plus, we delve into a fascinating article from the Softwood Lumber Board on how mass timber can reduce costs and emissions, featuring the Evergreen Charter School in New York. Mark your calendars for the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland this March, where the future of construction will be on full display. Don't miss this chance to learn and engage with the pioneers of sustainable building practices!
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 Ramblin, your host. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening wherever you are in the world today. Welcome to the Massatim Construction Podcast Series 2025.
Speaker 1:I hope that you had an amazing New Year's celebration. There was events all over the globe. I was very privileged to be part of my own celebrations here at home and I have witnessed some incredible displays, especially the fireworks and the drone combination which just really starts to bring the new year to a next level in terms of entertainment. I hope that you had a fantastic evening and may 2025 bring you great prosperity, happiness and joy, and we look forward to bringing you all the news in Mass Timber Construction Land throughout the entire year. Once again, it is our fifth year. Thank you for being a part of our journey. Let's get into the news.
Speaker 1:This week in Massastima Construction Land and first up for the year to my hometown of Melbourne, australia and TFE Hotels is celebrating a milestone in its journey to net zero emissions by 2050, with the Quincy Melbourne becoming the first hotel in Australia, victoria, to achieve Neighbours Climate Active, carbon Neutral Building Certification. Through the certification, the Quincy will offset 1,671 tonnes of carbon per annum, which is equivalent to 167 average Australian households. The TFE Hotel was invested in developing the footprint of management systems and a broad endorsed sustainability strategy, setting climate targets, establishing their in-house greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and reporting the uh. A notable approach to this is that it used mass timber as a function of replacing much of the what would be wet, poor concrete with cross-laminated timber. If you want to read some more about this, you can head to our LinkedIn feed, and there's a great report from the Daily Reporter which is about the rise of mass timber buildings, coming with added benefits, and it features the Ohio State University and the material used for low to mid-rise buildings and comparing it to more traditional materials. The article goes on to talk about not only the forest management, which is very important and that's obviously where it all starts through to economics, all the way through to commercial related elements of the wider ecosystem around construction. So if you want a great little article that overviews how mass timber and forestry work together, you can head to our LinkedIn feed or thedailyreportercom. And last week, we bought you some in-progress construction shots of the Grand Ring for the Osaka 2025 Expo, which is a two kilometer, 700 meter radius building built out of glue laminated timber. Well, now there are some eye-watering and very beautiful pictures of the Grand Ring in nighttime photography illuminating the structure, and it really does look like a golden ring sitting in the urban landscape. So if you want to go and have a look at some impressive nighttime photos of the Japanese Golden Grand Ring, please do head to our LinkedIn feed.
Speaker 1:Just a reminder to people in the US, the deadline for the $1.8 million mass timber construction competition Building Sustainable Schools is approaching its deadline for submissions, so get your K-12 education project in by the 13th of January 2025. If you'd like to see some more information, please head to the Softwood Lumber Board website. You'll be able to get all the details there. The entry period ends on January 13, 2025, so not too far from it now and you could partake in a $1.8 million mass timber competition for building sustainable schools. Check it all out or head to our LinkedIn feed or the Softwood Lumber Board website. And, sticking with the Softwood Lumber Board, there is an article that's been posted on how wood can reduce project costs and emission target attainment, while providing enhanced aesthetics for buildings through the feature of the Evergreen Charter School in Hampstead, new York, designed in mass timber by Martin Hopp Architects, and you can read about how this influential project could be a part of the genesis of the education submissions that we just spoke about for their competition. So if you'd like to get some insight information before you submit for that particular competition, you might want to head to this article first and have a read of that again on our LinkedIn feed.
Speaker 1:And don't forget, coming up this year in March the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, oregon, end of March. Get your tickets in now. Exhibition Space is selling out. We are media partners for that particular event. We're very pleased to be associated with it for well over five years now. This is our fifth year running on the podcast and we look forward to catching up with Arnie very, very soon in this new year to hear what is actually coming up at the conference. And we would like to say a big shout out to the entire organizing committee and that's driving the content that's going to be provided to all the participants. It gets a bigger and bigger event each year, so don't miss out.
Speaker 1:Please get your tickets booked, book your accommodation and get your registrations in early bird registrations there's a few of them will be ending soon. It's not too long now. It's probably only about 12 weeks away before you're actually heading there. So get your tickets, get booked and get over there, and that's it. That's all we've got for news this week in mass timber construction land. It's a great week one in 2025. I hope that you're settling in. I hope that when we all return back to work, that it's not too painful after having some time off. Certainly here in Australia, it's our holiday season. Enjoy good food, good company and, of course, good podcasts. Thanks for liking, sharing, subscribing, commenting, reposting anything that we have on our social media feed and, of course, tuning into our podcast each week. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world. Today, this is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast, so Thank you.