In this special guest episode I speak with Taylor Cabot, who was the Project Manager on the amazing Ascent Project. At 284 feet, Ascent lives up to its name. The towering 25-story luxury apartment building is the world's tallest hybrid mass timber structure, with 19 stories and 273,000 square feet of mass timber providing 260 residential units to the Milwaukee market. The project received a U.S. Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant for its unprecedented use of timber in high-rise construction in...
Jul 27, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 115
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jul 17, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 114
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jul 10, 2022•5 min•Season 2Ep. 113
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jul 03, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 114
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jun 27, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 113
Located just below the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, Skellefteå has a long tradition of timber building; this was the primary inspiration behind the international competition winning design for the city’s new cultural centre. The proposal was named Sida vid sida – Side-by-side; a timber-frame tower complex that placed art, performance and literary organisations alongside each other in a spectacular setting. Sara Cultural Centre will be a new home for the Västerbotten Regional Theatre, Anna N...
Jun 22, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 112
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jun 20, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 111
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jun 13, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 110
In this special guest episode, I speak with Kevin Ezard. For the past 23 years the Frame Australia conference has been the number one event in Australia attracting professionals in offsite timber and mass wood building design and construction. Now titled ‘Timber Offsite Construction’ the 2022 event will be a global ‘hybrid’ format combining ‘in person’ and ‘on-line’ for both speakers and delegates to provide a new and unrivalled experience for all attendees. The conference program theme ‘Timber ...
Jun 13, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 109
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
Jun 05, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 108
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
May 29, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 107
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
May 22, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 106
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
May 16, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 105
In this special guest episode, I speak with Ian Tyson about the NeXTimber plant being constructed in South Australia, NeXTimber® by Timberlink manufactures Australian made Engineered Wood Products (EWP) and provides mass timber building solutions with Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels and Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) members. Made from sustainably certified local Australian plantation pine that sequesters carbon from the atmosphere, NeXTimber CLT panels and GLT members provide the biophilic and...
May 11, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 104
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
May 08, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 103
In this weeks episode, we discuss the projects of the week around mass timber construction land. Enjoy. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and provider of high technology solutions for all those involved in the construction with wood sector. Always...
May 01, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 102
In this episode, thank you to the over 17k+ followers of our LinkedIn Page, we wouldn't be the success we are today without your support. Grange Development is reaching for the sky with plans for the world’s tallest timber hybrid building in Perth. If the $350 million project is approved, the 183-metre high building will soar three metres higher than Atlassian’s headquarters in Sydney, which was billed as the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower when it was first unveiled in 2020. Danish architec...
Apr 17, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 101
In this special episode, hear some of the voices from attendees at the conference and listen what they had to say about the IMTC event in Portland. The event hosted over 2000 people from all over the world. Production by Deeelicious Beats Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production www.masstimberconstruction.com Sponsors of the Podcast: Rothoblaas Rothoblaas is an Italian multinational with its roots in the Alpine region; a leading developer and pr...
Apr 17, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 100
In this special guest episode, Eli Gould joins me as the US Representative of QWEB under the Wood Structure Group based in the USA. QWEB is a nonprofit 200 member association of Quebec wood producers and manufacturers. My almost-full-time service for them is a great extension of my green building experience that allows me to help larger projects using wood, and connect great communities of manufacturers with projects in the US, Caribbean, and Latin America. In 2020, the nonprofit role also evolv...
Apr 12, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 99
In this week's episode, the Province of B.C. is kicking in $250,000 for the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce's new digs – a multi-purpose commercial/tourism hub to be called The Confluence. NDP cabinet ministers today announced $1.2 million in funding for four new mass timber projects, including a new 783-unit student housing building for the University of Victoria. Commissioned, planned and constructed in barely 18 months, this new building in Berlin bucks the trend for German government projects ...
Apr 10, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 98
In this weeks episode, soon Robert Schmitz will be on the podcast, talking about the 20-storey, 75-metre-high Sara Cultural Centre - named after a popular Swedish author - opened its doors last September. Designed by Greg Latimer, principal of studioCANOO, the six-storey office building has been styled to fit in with the well-worn industrial buildings in the Leaside Business Park in east-central Toronto. A new tool for city planners helps them design a portfolio of actions that encompasses mass ...
Apr 04, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 97
In this episode, in the fall of 2017, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., announced a deal in Toronto to build a dream city “from the Internet up”, however some argue that dream was nothing more than some pretty pictures. After just a single visit to Australia, UK-based James Jones & Sons decided to buy a 60 per cent stake in Australian timber companies XLam and Hyne Timber. Winner in the Experimental Future Projects category in the World Architecture Festi...
Mar 28, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 96
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is seeking to transform Australia's approach to large-scale building construction, with a new $300 million program to encourage mass timber construction across the property sector . Why timber buildings? Timber medium and high-rise buildings are growing in popularity across the world, offering a lower carbon footprint, fast build time and physiological benefits for the end user. Innovations in engineered wood products have created new opportunities for mass t...
Mar 27, 2022•12 min•Season 2Ep. 95
In this week's episode, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has finally revealed its plans for a new office scheme next to the Financial Times building on the Thames. Structural plywood was used to help reduce the carbon footprint of an Oregon office building designed by Lever Architecture for a nonprofit organisation. Training includes both online learning and live demonstrations at CSIC’s Innovation Factory in Hamilton – home to the UK’s only commercial-scale vacuum press for manufacturing cross-laminat...
Mar 24, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 94
In this week's episode, the COA Dorm will be approximately 12,000-square-foot building will comprise double- and single-occupancy rooms, a fully outfitted, multi-stationed community kitchen, large common area with exposed mass-timber beams, and a covered outdoor area. The Auburn University College of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, in partnership with other academic colleges and administrative offices, will host the first international cross-laminated timber, or CLT, conference to be held in the...
Mar 15, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 93
In this episode, thank you for your support. 16,000 followers of the Mass Timber Construction Journal is am impressive achievement, and it's all thanks to you, our Followers! The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) TallWood project began in 2016, now they are taking on another project, find out more. Waterfront Toronto, an alliance between the governments of Canada, Ontario and Toronto, is planning to develop a 12-acre site in the centre of the city. A key player in insur...
Mar 07, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 92
In this special guest episode, we talk to the winners of the Build the [Im]Possible competition. The competition was to design structures that would not be possible without our revolutionary SPIDER and PILLAR connectors. The response from the four corners of the world was incredible: all kinds of projects came in and it was not easy for us to select the best ones. The categories of participation were Students and Professionals, and both gave us great satisfaction. The technical jury that selecte...
Mar 02, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 91
In this episode, on April 26th and 27th Rothoblaas #Rothoschool will host the Structural Design of Wooden Buildings Course at the headquarters in Cortaccia will field a team of 12 specialists including professors, engineers and professionals covering construction site theory and practice available to designers who want to stay up to date. Developer Parklea engaged i2C Architects to design their new corporate headquarters in Melbourne’s southeast, they specified that they wanted it to be as susta...
Feb 28, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 90
In this week's episode, dRMM said it was also looking forward to working in a country where the use of wood in construction was ‘considered mainstream’ rather than being treated with ‘distrust’, broadly, Alex de Rijke believes Germany is ‘leading the way’ in building sustainably. Timberlink Australia has partnered with hsbcad to supply an end-to-end software solution for NeXTimber Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) projects. A flagship project of the New South Wales gov...
Feb 21, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Skanska work makes a clear contribution to society and the environment around them. Whether they are building schools to provide inspiring spaces for learning, roads to connect communities or hospitals to care for patients, it all contributes to their purpose – they build what matters. Skanska Group uses knowledge & foresight to shape the way people live, work, and connect. More than 135 years in the making, they’re one of the world’s largest development and construction companies, with 2020...
Feb 16, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 88
