Mass Timber Market Updates - September 2021 - Week Thirtyseven

In this weeks episode, Rothoblaas host a webinar dedicated to
Asian timber lovers: Designers and builders in tropical climate
zones need specific solutions when it comes to timber
constructions. This is why we offer a webinar dedicated to all
timber lovers living in these Asia. A tower that reaches a height
of 75 m (246 ft) may not sound all that impressive – the Empire
State Building is over five times taller, after all – but when
you consider that the Sara Cultural Centre in Sweden is made
almost entirely from wood and is actually one of the world's
tallest timber towers, it puts that height into perspective. The
project also packs a lot of sustainable features and is expected
to become carbon negative in 50 years. Germany’s tallest wooden
skyscraper broke ground in Hamburg. The building is called
‘Roots’ and the impressive concrete and wooden structure, sitting
at 65 metres and 19 floors. The Mayor of Hamburg, Peter
Tschentscher, attended the ceremony in HafenCity and symbolically
laid the foundation stone together with Fabian von Köppen, the
head of Garbe Immobilien-Projekte GmbH, and Jörg Soehring, the
board of directors of the Deutsche Wildtier Foundation.
Structurlam CEO Hardy Wentzel has announced that the Penticton,
B.C.-based firm is close to commissioning its first U.S. plant,
in Conway, Ark. The new 287,000-square-foot facility will produce
glulam and CLT, just as Structurlam’s existing three plants in
Penticton do, but the U.S. site will have double the production
capacity of the Canadian plants.

And the winner is: Willmott Dixon – Interdisciplinary Biomedical
Research Building, University of Warwick. The University of
Warwick’s new Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building
(IBRB) is a six-storey, 7,000 square-metre facility for up to 300
biomedical researchers. It comprises five floors of labs, plus
social and collaborative spaces and a 400-seat lecture theatre.
Södra is now launching its complete offering for the assembly of
cross-laminated timber (CLT) framing in Denmark. Södra is
establishing a new position in CLT across the country and
expanding the existing business. This is the first step of
Södra’s establishment of the business in Europe and Södra’s
complete offering of CLT panels for frame assembly with
complementary products and services will now be available in the
Danish market. The Transforming Timber initiative – led by
Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) with support from
Edinburgh Napier University, ECOSystems Technologies, the
University of Edinburgh, and SNRG – has been awarded £1.45m of
funding from Innovate UK’s Small Business Research Initiative
(SBRI).


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