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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 is Paul Cramer , your host . Welcome to another week of weekly updates from around the world for all the things that are happening in the Mass Timber Construction land around the world .
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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 to New York and Bureau H Happold and Stony Brook University lead .
The New York Climate Exchange , in collaboration with anchor institution , stony Brook University and the design lead from SOM Bureau , is transforming a 10-acre campus on New York City's Governor Island into a beacon of sustainability , achieving net zero energy , water , waste and carbon .
The New York Exchange will be a bold initiative spearheaded by the City of New York , the Trust for Governor Island and this vision to reimagine a treasured public space as a local and global hub for climate science .
The team , consisting of everyone I've mentioned so far , is looking to manifest the mission of exchange in its architecture , landscape and infrastructure through the campus that will be the first in new york city to meet the living building challenge standards , become one of the first cities or sites in the country to achieve true net zero waste certification , meet 100
non-portable potable water demand through rainwater and treated water , and run entirely on electricity that's generated on site . If you'd like to see more , please head to our linkedin feed . And several years ago , architect Jennifer Bonner made headlines for pulling off a single family home project in Old Fort Worth .
The project , called House Gables , was among the first homes in the country to be built with cross laminated timber panels , and it remains a source of pride for Bonner and many ATL architect buffs . However , five years later , bonner is looking to replicate that general style in a capability for the cost-effective , space-conscious concept called X-Houses .
If you'd like to see this new imagination of CLT housing called X-Houses , head to our LinkedIn feed .
In the news this week , element 5 , who are not content on just producing 50 000 cubic meters of mass timber clt product , has now started work on an expansion to increase its footprint to over 350 000 square feet and it will produce another 50 000 cubic meters of glulam and cross-laminated timber starting in 2025 .
The 100 million million total expansion allows Element 5 to produce wood beams and columns in addition to panels , serving a broader segment of the $2 billion global mass timber market . According to a 2023 Royal Bank of Canada research report , mass timber accounted for approximately 1% of all building construction materials in North America .
The global mass timber market is estimated to reach around $1.6 billion in 2022 and forecasts a rise to over $2 billion in 2024 . Analysts estimate that it could reach $4.9 billion by 2030 . Canada's share of the total global mass timber market was about $379 million in 2023 .
The building sector is the third most carbon-intensive industry in Canada accounting for 30% of all emissions in 2022 , with 92 million tonnes of CO2e , which comprises of equivalent global warming impact , and Canada aims to cut to about 50 million tonnes of CO2e by 2030 .
And to Germany now , and Meyer Mellenhoff Holtz invests in a fully automated , modern high-frequency press for the production of glulam standard components in its Oldsburg site in Germany .
With the new pressing system , oldsburg is making a quantitative leap into the automated processing and production orders and is using the cutting-edge technology to provide the straight components required for glulam standard business .
The high frequency plant presses glulam elements with maximum dimensions of 29 centimeters by 130 centimeters by 24.2 meters long , and replaces two hydraulic presses that were in need of repair .
As a system provider , abf was commissioned to integrate the new presses in terms of quality control , focus on communication with high-frequency press in the ERP system , enterprise Resource Center system that runs the business , the glue application and conveyor lines , as well as fully controlled automated labeling , pressing glulam bars and automatic collection of data production
to increase productivity through a feedback loop . Congratulations to everyone at Meyer Mellenhoff it's great to see you optimizing for the future and Auburn University in the US , the College of Forestry , wildlife and Environment will host its first CLT conference in the hotel at Auburn University and the Dixon Conference Center in Auburn in Alabama .
The three-day event will be titled the Sustainable Future of CLT in the South Grow , design and Build , and it will be held between October 7 to 9 . So please do get your tickets . If you're in the area , head to Auburn University and attend this amazing event . For more details , head to our LinkedIn feed to check out what's happening around the world .
That's it , folks . That's what's making news around the world this week in Masatima Construction Land . Do not forget the survey link in the bottom of the show notes . If you can contribute to my international research , that would be greatly appreciated . We're looking for all opinions from people through the AEC community .
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