Ladies and gentlemen , we are live . This is the moment you all have been waiting for . It's time for the global sensation , the one , the only , the undisputed heavyweight podcast in the world the Mass Timber Construction Podcast . And now here's Mark Kramer , your host .
Good morning , good afternoon or good evening , wherever you are in the world today , welcome to the Massive Construction Podcast . Thank you , bruce Buffer , for an amazing introduction , as always . My name's Paul Kramer , your host .
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Rotho School is also coming to Melbourne , in Sydney , in Australia , very soon , in November . Catch up on LinkedIn for all the details and don't forget to hit subscribe , like , comment or share any of our content and submit a manuscript to our academic journal .
Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mass timber construction land , and the first is the headquarters of Finnish forestry group Store Enso . There is these beautiful pictures coming through from their headquarters .
The goal was to create a calm presence of the historic milieu , about the same time of providing an interesting new environment for city dwellers , located where the headquarters is positioned . It is using sustainable architecture and sustainable timber is positioned .
It is using sustainable architecture and sustainable timber and if you'd like to go and have a look at the amazing imagery from this atrium forum area , please head to our LinkedIn feed .
The news has come in from Vancouver , where the Vancouver school board's latest addition to the classrooms in Vancouver is the first completed school built entirely using prefabricated mass timber components , predominantly CLT .
The school is part of Vancouver's school board pilot project that seeks to assess the possibilities of using mass timber for the future , and it was designed by HCMA architecture and design for how children will learn in the present day .
The school features tons of natural light , extensive use of wood and interior is a fundamental ground quality which is to be used for grounding students in the sense of keeping them centered , and is complementary to the views across the site and beyond the city and the coastal mountains .
The $22.4 million Canadian dollar 3,436 square feet school is able to accommodate a total of 340 students and is predominantly located in a single-family residential neighborhood in the northwest of Vancouver . If you'd like to have a look at this impressive school , please head to our LinkedIn feed .
And we reported a few years ago on the Brent Cross Town and in its planning stages . Well , now there's more investment photos and real estate development paraphernalia coming out on the Brent Cross Town , which began in 2020 . And now you can see some new concept drawings , which will introduce the indoor sports amenities and 3 million feet of office space .
The plan is to include provisions for student housing , a renovation of three local schools and the development of a new school . So if you'd like to see some more , you can head to our LinkedIn feed . And we previously reported this on our linkedin feed a couple of months ago , but we're a little bit behind in the podcast .
But the new site for the portland-based timberlink swinnerton conglomerate in millersburg for the new plant has been released and there's an image of that on our linkedin feed if you want to go and have a look .
And the big news coming out of Surrey is the topping off ceremony that was celebrated for the construction of Surrey's first mass timber housing development project on July 23rd . Yes , we reported it a while ago . There is some new images coming through now and you can see the Surrey City Centre , where the mass timber building is adorned in the cityscape .
The BC government announced updates to the provincial building code which allowed for up to 18 stories , and this is one of the first projects to take advantage of that . So please do have a look at our LinkedIn feed . And to the UK now . Emboygas UK has been named the official contractor for the new secondary school near Wantage in Oxfordshire .
The St John Academy is a £28 million project for the Vale Academy Trust alongside the already completed primary school on the Grove on Wellington Gate development , and it will create a first all-through school nursery through to year 11 in the area , teaching around 600 pupils .
There is an amazing two-story green roof , solar panel dawned , natural synthetic playing surfaces , sustainable drainage systems , all surrounding a mass timber constructed building . If you'd like to have a look at more of that , you can have a look at our linkedin feed .
And staying in the uk and Liverpool's Alder hey Children's Hospital , which was designed by Cullen Studios and is in the Manchester-based 10 Architecture Firm's portfolio of work , the Caitlin Centre and Sunflower House have different purposes , the former providing various outpatient services and the latter providing inpatient unit accommodation for children , about 12 of them age
between 5 and 13 and it uses CLT panels inside the building using glue laminated timber . An impressive site . Please do check it out . And that's it , folks . That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land . Don't forget to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode , when we do publish them every week .
Don't forget if you have a manuscript , submit it to an academic journal . Don't forget Ratho School in both Sydney and Melbourne in Australia and also in Italy at the international headquarters , you can go and see their amazing automatic warehouse made out of mass timber building construction and we look forward to bringing you the news next week .
Good morning , good afternoon or good evening , wherever you are in the world today . This is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast . Thank you ,