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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 Kramer , your host , and welcome to another weekly updated episode . Don't forget to hit subscribe . And thank you , bruce Buffer , for being the voice of not only the Octagon but also the podcast .
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So if you're a budding researcher looking to promote your scientific manuscripts , please do consider our Mass Timber Construction Journal academic arm . Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in Mass Timber Construction land and work begins on the new Georgia Tech Athletic Performance Center .
Construction has started on the Thomas A Fanning Student Athletic Performance Center with a 100,000 square foot facility at Georgia Tech and it will house the facilities . Dedicated Fanning Center will also house Georgia Tech's first science lab , where they will be looking at sports sports technicians and use in-house data analytics programs to track individual performance .
Designed by SLAM Collaborative SLAM , the Fanning Center will feature several sustainability efforts , including repurposing steel from the campus's Bobby Dodd Stadium .
It will also include partially offset energy saving design elements , including mass timber construction throughout the new athletic facility , the center being constructed atop of the footprint of the former edge rice center . If you'd like to see some images on this amazing project , head to our linkedin feed and check them out .
And after years of planning and months of site preparation , construction for the first new homes in port moody's portland development will officially begin in may . It's when representatives from the project's developer , vancouver based edgar development , will officially begin in May .
It's when representatives from the project's developer , vancouver-based Edgar Development , will be joined by the mayor to break ground at the Umbra , a six-story U-shaped building comprised of 219 one and two-bedroom condos , along with three-bedroom ground-level townhouses . Pre-sales for the units begin and it's about 70% sold out .
Media reports around the project do not yet indicate whether Mass Timber will be used for the project . However , in 2021 , port Moody Council decided that they were going to give the project a green light after a protracted discussion around the third SkyTrain station nearby and the use of mass timber construction for high-rise buildings .
So let's see if this project does become a realisation using mass timber construction . If you'd like to check out the news or keep up to date , please head to our LinkedIn feed and good friends of the show .
Timberland Holdings and the owner of the company Swinnerton , which is an employee owned company , have led the market for many years in trying to integrate the way that Mass Timber is working with a supply chain and delivery for construction projects , and they have now just agreed to purchase American laminators to continue their operations in Oregon-based places , and they
will be commencing this particular joint venture on the 10th of June in 2024 . American Laminators has a long history of high quality glulam products .
News is that Chris Evans will be on the show to have a chat to us about what's actually happening and the plans for Timberlab moving forward in their joint venture with American Laminators , and construction recently kicked off in Oxbow , a mass timber multifamily community in Charlotte's the Mill District .
The $97.8 million project consisting of 389 rental units and 14,300 square feet of commercial space , which sits on a 4.3 acre site formerly housing four commercial buildings , the street level will feature retail tenancy and is designed for boutique coffee shops and neighborhood services .
The structure will be proposed a two-story concrete podium housing , below grade parking , topped with five-story hybrid structure , a stick frame and cross laminated timber . About 50% of the structure will feature exposed mass timber ceilings using Austrian spruce timber .
Sustainability elements include high SEER rated HVAC systems , energy efficient appliances , rooftop solar panels , and tenants will have access to e-bike , e-scooter and electric car services .
The project is seeking a silver rating by the National Green Building Standard , the only green building rating system for homes and apartments approved by the American National Standards Institute . If you'd like to see images , head to our LinkedIn feed . So that's it , folks . That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction land .
Hope you have a great week , looking forward to next week when we bring you some more news from around the world . Good morning , good afternoon or good evening . Don't forget to hit subscribe , make sure you like , comment on our posts , posts and follow all the media news around the world .
My name is paul kramer , signing off on the mass timber construction podcast . Thank you .