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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 . This is Paul Kramer , your host , back with another episode of projects featured all around the globe . Thank you , bruce Buffer , for the wonderful introduction and thank you for hitting subscribe .
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Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in Mashtimba Construction Land and first up we're in New South Wales , in Australia , and a Glebe social housing redevelopment by Homes . New South Wales is set to become the first CLT social , affordable apartment class 2 building in New South Wales , to be completed in early 2025 .
The 65 million dollar development will provide 75 fit-for-purpose social homes across eight-story towers and separate three-story terraces . This is designed to achieve a six Green Star rating and a renewal project will set a precedent for the construction industry using a methodology and mass timber . Construction .
Group GSA was engaged by the executive architect to deliver the pioneering project , to tender on the construction , in partnership with the builder , Kane Constructions to deliver the project .
If you'd like to see more , you can head to our LinkedIn feed and see the amazing photos that are coming out of that particular project , and the Softwood Lumber Board announced in an earlier this month that it's accepting applications for its cities for investments up to $250,000 each to help launch mass timber accelerator programs .
The lumber industry , supported by trade groups , has already had similar investments in programs such as in Boston , new York and Atlanta . The mass timber now has become such a popular commercial real estate option that these particular grants are looking to accelerate that .
So please do head to the Softwood Lumber Board announcement on their website to get more details . And while strictly not 100% focused on mass timber , the Climate Change Advisory Council has urged the government to adopt sustainable construction methods to reduce emissions immediately .
Published in its annual review Islands , industry and Waste Sectors , the CCAC emphasised the need for increased timber use and modern methods of construction . It also called for adoptions for whole carbon assessments and targets and planning for public buildings to meet these sectoral targets .
With the review noting a 6% drop in industrial building emissions by the EU emissions trading scheme from 2023 onwards will support reductions in the overall global creation of carbon . And back to Australia Now .
And Wood Solutions , who educates and advocates for the design and construction of sustainable timber homes , has released its resilient , focused approach to address climate challenges and ensure safety and well-being for occupants through its resilient timber homes technical design guide .
The guide is available for download if you log into the Wood Solutions site , register your details and then you'll be able to access it . It's a comprehensive guide . It supports the understanding of how repairing and replacing homes and their contents after natural catastrophes have significantly increased over the last 15 years .
Increased over the last 15 years and , working in conjunction with the Insurance Council of Australia , they have been able to come up with some ways to improve climate resilience in new and existing homes to reduce costs , allow sustainable market growth and facilitate improvements in housing supply crises that we're currently going through in Australia .
If you'd like to see more , you can actually head to our linkedin feed and researchers from prudhoe forestry and natural resources in the united states are teaming up with partners across the state to stimulate , expand and support the utilization of hardwood lumber by creating the indiana wood .
Goals for the project are to increase forest health and resilience , competitiveness of wood products in the industry for economic development in rural areas in the state .
The team will aim to create and implement a strategic plan to increase awareness of the benefits from utilizing resources in their state After gathering input from industry advisory boards and several roundtable discussions across the state .
The plan will include specific action items on forest ownership , supply chain , manufacturing , marketing policy and regulation and public perception . The IWUT team will design , develop and implement statewide promotional and educational programs for the general public to increase awareness and the utilization of wood products .
And a massive new student housing project is going ahead at the University of British Columbia UBC Vancouver campus , following the provincial government's confirmation of a significant infusion of funding to cover a majority of the costs .
The existing low-rise structures on the large lot currently occupied by St John's College on the west end of the campus will be redeveloped in a total of 1,580 student bed housing units .
The development site will be framed by Northwest Marine Drive to the west and University Boulevard to the north , lower Mall and existing Ponderosa Commons residents to the east and the existing Marine Drive residents to the south . This entails 1,333 net new beds plus 175 new one-for-one replacement beds to the existing college site .
The beds will be primarily dedicated to graduate students . If you'd like to see some more impressive images , please head to our LinkedIn feed . And that's it , folks . That's all we've got time for this week in Mass Timber Construction Land . I hope you have had an amazing week . We look forward to catching up with you very , very soon .
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Good morning , good afternoon or good evening . This is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast . Thank you .