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Good morning , good afternoon or good evening wherever you are in the world today , welcome to the Mass Timber Construction Podcast . My name's Paul Kramer , your host . Welcome to another weekly episode of the Mass Timber Construction Around the World Global News Update . And we're getting very , very close to the holiday season now in the month of december .
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Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mass timber construction land . And the big news this week is the announcement that you can have a look inside Google's head office . Now Google's head office is made of mass timber and there is an amazing video which walks through the project so you can have a look at it .
It talks about all the sustainability benefits of using bio-based materials wood materials , natural daylighting , the use of biophilic treatments , the well-being , the performance and the increased aesthetic that is created from having cross laminated and glue laminated timber within the building .
If you'd like to check out more , please head to our LinkedIn feed to see the videos , and there's a couple of articles as well , with some amazing photos . I am particularly in awe of the Pac-Man room , which is one of the main rooms that you can break out into if you go to the Google head office .
And Timber House kicks off its mission to advance wood construction in europe , aiming to slash the built environment carbon footprint . And in early november , timber house the research and innovation project , kicked off in copenhagen .
It was led by danish technology institute and timber house aims to significantly reduce co2 in the construction sector , which is responsible for about 40 percent of global CO2 emissions when you consider operational carbon as well .
Despite its recognized climate and carbon benefits , widespread adoption of timber materials is still slow and Timberhouse seeks to accelerate this with the uptake in construction , harnessing potential current underutilized wood species , post-consumer wood to create sustainable , high-performance construction products and designs .
To Germany Now , and an innovation factory by Hellebron , by Vekler . Vekler consists of a cube with scaled glass facade is reflected on the water where it's located , with a striking white glazed timber construction , v-shaped column and clear , visible use of transparent materials in the baffle palette to the double facade .
And the architecture of the new business incubator is intended to radiate sustainability , engineering skills and inventiveness inside the cube . It creates spaces for startups of different sizes to achieve even better results and is part of the architect's idea to make grouped workspaces around a five-story atrium .
Tea rooms in the galleries encourage dialogue and the fire protection concept with sprinkler system allows transparent views through to the building . The eight-meter-deep column-free office are spanned by prefabricated timber composite ceilings and the timber frames of the external walls , using V columns to stiffen them , and the delivery of the site is prefabde .
And look at the Innovation Factory article . Detailde . And look at the Innovation Factory article . In Peru have created wooden pergolas that fuel a 700 square meter courtyard behind a neoclassic mansion in the district , near the home of the headquarters of the French Cultural Association , allianz Francisca de Lima .
Standing over 7 metres tall and attaching a roofline of its neighbouring building . It was given heritage status in 2007 and the contemporary shelter now aims to give the association a new presence on the street and act as a meeting place for people in the French Peruvian community .
The building consists of a structure that's covered with fixed translucent carbonate sheets , protects the space from the sun and the rain , but features amazing red glulam structures that shine as a bold contrast in the pavilion area . That creates a dialogue between the neighboring community and the height and the rhythm of the vertical elements within the building .
According to the report on Dazeen , if you'd like to have a look at more at K&M Architectures' pergola that has a historic building in Peru attached to it , please head to our LinkedIn feed or to the Dazeen magazine online . And the Woodmill St Columbus RC High School sets Passive House record .
It is set to be the largest Passive House education building in the UK and AHR's new school in the area exemplifies a dedication to going beyond the traditional indoor learning . Woodmill and St Columbus RC High School is a well wellbeing , collaboration and community inclusive project and UK's largest building uniting Woodmill High School and RC Columbia High School .
Its learning spaces are high quality , available to pupils and the wider community , with distinct visual markers that separate entrances to the school's opening and independently showing their individual identities by drawing strength from shared spaces . There is some great diagram infographics that show you all of the Passive House treatment to the building .
So you head to our LinkedIn feed or you search for the article Woodmill and St Columbus RC High School Passive House Record . You will be able to see those details and we have discussed this on the podcast previously .
But just as a reminder , the new commercial timber guide handbook launched in the uk is a collaboration between property developers , insurers , technical experts and set to launch the uk's first commercial timber guidebook .
The guidebook is an initiative by Elliot Wood of Warthysselton Architects , ofr Consultants , working with specialist insurance companies , lignum Risk Partners to engage in the wider sector . The project kickstarted with £200,000 as a grant from Built by Nature . The guidebook aims to drive the adoption of timber by demonstrating both its technical viability and its insurability .
The project team worked directly with architects , developers and engineers to create a consensus of good practice on how to incorporate structural timber into new buildings . The guidebook has input from the country's leading fire engineers , resulting in unprecedented cross-industry consensus around how to achieve fire safety in timber office buildings of various typologies .
If you'd like to see more , you can head to the UK First Commercial Timber Guidebook , or you can go to the Build by Nature site and have a look at the project . You can download and register it , and Timber Development UK is also another place you can go to go and grab the guide . And that's it , folks .
That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land . I hope you had a great week . We look forward to bringing you news for another couple of weeks and then we're going on a break until 2025 . 2025 will be our fifth year of doing the podcast , every week an episode coming out . We do apologize , we've been a little bit slower this year .
There has been a lot going on and so it's a lot of catch up . But thank you for sticking around . Thank you for being part of our journey . Don't forget to like , subscribe , share or comment on any of our posts .
Make sure you download resources , engage in research , put manuscripts into our journal , academic journal publication , and we look forward to catching up with you very , very soon . It's good morning , good afternoon and good evening , wherever you are in the world . Today . This is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast . Thank you .