Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2025 - Week Eighteen

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 Cramer , your host . Thank you for listening each week .

Don't forget the special guest episode that just popped , with Bonier Ofeig and Julie Abington from New Zealand , who really revolutionised things in the social housing game many , many years ago , and we are now playing catch up . So if you want to hear more about how mass timber shaped the way social housing worked in New Zealand , you can listen to that episode .

It's a really , really good episode and thank you to the two gents for joining me . Let's have a look at what's making news around the

world this week . In mass timber construction land and the Mass Timber Centre for Excellence in the UK offers the most advanced mass timber manufacturing equipment , locally commercial , available CNC machine in the country , machine in the country , and it is supported by the Scottish Funding Council and host institution Edinburgh and APA University .

The innovation campus at BE-ST will now house a 1.5 million pound newly acquired state-of-the-art mass timber post-processing equipment , a super blower extraction system , and you can check out all the news around this particular project , including having a look at their impressive vacuum press system .

If you've never seen a vacuum press before , you can have a look at how a billet is laid up inside a vacuum press . You can head to our linkedin feed to see all the details . And when you ventured to the international mass timber conference Conference in Portland this year and you went through PDX and you looked up , you will see the amazing

roof structure . Well , that amazing roof structure has now made it into a music video clip by DJ Avalanche , and you can see the full video clip by heading to our LinkedIn feed and then clicking on the link there to have a look at the PDX wooden roof structure in the background .

The music might not be your taste , but the video and the graphics are certainly very good to see . There are some more impressive renders of the big ring , the circle of life and circular economy at the Japan Expo 2025

, osaka . The forest-like pavilion made of CLT creates a seamless connection between exterior and interior environment , between which the exhibitors and the architecture form part of the interplay in the in-betweenness that expands the concept of circularity and circulation . This is an impressive series of photos .

If you want to have a look at it , please head to our LinkedIn feed . In concept designs and structural sort of highlights have been released for the Nice Timber Tower building , the high-rise architectural building in Holland devised and designed by me architects and planners in the Netherlands .

The nice tower is an impressive 140 meter tall building made entirely of timber and

represents the next step in revolution of circular timber high-rise construction . The tower delivers its sustainability through wood embracing the facade , the wooden elevator core and's fully bio-based , entirely concrete free ground floor to lift the core and the supporting structure , and it reduces co2 emissions by comparing it to traditional buildings .

The building offers sustainability , inclusivity in residential program in response to increasing pressure for urban space , so that's urban densification . If you want to have a look at the renders for this , you know where to go .

I thought over the many years I had seen it all in mass timber , until I saw a brand new guitar shaped airport terminal in middle georgia regional airport that is going to be produced from mass timber

. This , what you see , is what you get Country style bird's eye view of a guitar sitting on its side as a building on the ground is part of the $13.4 million project that will be fully funded for the 2025 Macon Bib Country Industrial Authority Construction Fund .

According to the construction release documents , the terminal at Middle Georgia Regional Airport will be built primarily from southern yellow pine and the project will be 90% of Georgia's forests privately owned and material provided to the project .

You want to have a look at it , you know where to go and just for those in Australia , the Autodesk Challenge Cup hosted by Prefab Oz and Autodesk are the primary sponsor for this particular event .

We have now got our team registrations in for the Challenge Cup for 2025 , curtin University , deakin University , rmit University , university of Melbourne and Western Sydney University , and I've been at

three of those five , so it's good to see people that I've been associated with representing in this industry challenge .

The industry challenge is about smarter building for a translational way of living , and the entries can be seen at the end of the year when we host the awards for it at our national conference , which will be in around about September , and it's at the Gold Coast this year just to let people know exactly where it might be heading .

Don't hold me to that 100% , but that's where the talk is at the moment inside Prefab Oz . So get your looking glasses on when details come out and have a look at these impressive projects from these students at these competing universities , and we look forward to seeing the outcomes of the project . That's it . That's all we've got time for folks .

Good morning , good afternoon or good evening . Don't forget to hit subscribe , like comment , share anything on our LinkedIn feed . Don't forget to listen to special guest episodes and we'll catch up with you next week . Good morning , good afternoon or good evening . This is paul kramer signing off from the mastin construction , so Bye .