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Welcome to the Mass Timber Construction Podcast Weekly Updater . My name is Paul Kramer , your host , and welcome to another week of all the news happening around the world in Mass Timber Construction land .
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Let's get into the news this week in mass timber construction land and Cetra has opened a new office in Nymir in Sweden , which is close to customers and the market in the area .
The office is staffed by two Cetra building solutions experts and is focusing on the fast growth parts of northern Sweden by establishing a clear presence in the region's largest city , covering the local region .
The industrial boom in the north has been boosting housing construction to levels that are among the highest in the country , and etc is seeing a marked increase in demand for mass timber construction specifically for apartment buildings , alongside those with numerous other offices , commercial premises also being built , as well as preschools , schools and health care facilities
also using mass timber . Well done to the team , etc . Great to see you supporting the entire swedish market . And to the us now .
And studio gang , who's headed by genie gang , which is an architectural practice in new york , received the honor award for the crescentig College Renewal Project at the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects Architecture Awards for 2024 . Congratulations to the team at Studio Gang . An impressive award for the renewal project .
If you'd like to see images and read more about the article , please head to our LinkedIn feed . The news this week that after a year since the company went bankrupt , the Conway plant has reopened for Mercer Timber and you can see some of the images on our LinkedIn feed . They are looking to increase orders and production very , very soon .
So congratulations to the team at Mercer . Really great to see another industry giant supporting others that may have stumbled on the journey to producing a better built environment through mass timber . Then we have some progress photos on the John Hopkins University Homewood campus that is now rising out of the ground near charles and 33rd streets .
The 250 million dollar hopkins student center is one of the first contemporary buildings in baltimore and it represents an amazing step forward in sustainability using heavy timber construction .
Although the student center is only under construction for , say , a year now , much of the work already involved in the massive underground foundation that won't be visible to the building has been completed and on the last several months , it's been possible to see the structure take shape in the ground .
If you'd like to see more , head to our LinkedIn feed and have a look at the amazing photos . The recently reported Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota , in the Badlands , is scheduled to start construction , after a long announcement , since 2021 . I think we announced it in April .
It's the 26th president of the US being honored with a mass timber building . Honored with a mass timber building .
Mercer Mass Timber , a low-carbon manufacturing timber building company , announced that it will provide the mass timber for the library , and the company said the project honors the president's legacy of conservation by utilizing local sources of renewable resources such as mass timber .
In partnership with the general contractor , mercer Mass Timber will provide mass timber design , assistance , materials and coordination and logistics for the project , including the signature roof structure , which is an impressive site .
If you want to go and have a look at the images that are available , you can head to our Mass Timber Construction Journal LinkedIn feed general linkedin feed . And the new humber cultural hub has been officially certified under the zero carbon building design standard v1 by the canadian green building council .
Spanning 3 250 square feet , the humber cultural hub will produce a new home for humber's award-winning facility of media and creative arts and create a new 318-bed student residence . The zero-carbon building is highly energy efficient and minimizes greenhouse gas emissions from building and operations .
The encapsulated mass timber construction incorporated into the superstructure reduces greenhouse gas emissions and also associated with extracting and producing transport building materials , as mass timber has a lower embodied carbon compared to concrete and steel . If you'd like to see the finished article , you can head to our linkedin feed . An impressive building .
Congratulations to the team and well done to the students who will be inhabiting and visiting the new Humber Cultural Hub . And finally , in this episode , in March this year , heinz broke ground on its FAT F-A-T Food Art Technology Village Project , an 850,000 square feet mixed-use development in Fort Lauderdale in Florida .
It's a 5.6 acre urban development known as ABA , a fat village , which will introduce housing , retail , residence , restaurants , entertainment , office space and an arts and technology village . It will be a district for all .
Heinz will use mass timber for the construction for the office development dubbed Timber Transport and Technology its T3 sequence , with South Florida-based Blanca Commercial Real Estate as its leasing partner for the T3 building . If you'd like to see some more of this amazing precinct called FAT , head to our Mass Timber Construction Journal LinkedIn feed .
And that's it , folks . That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction land . Look forward to catching up with you again very , very soon , soon . Good morning , good afternoon or good evening wherever you are in the world today . My name is paul kramer signing off on the mastim construction podcast . Thank you .