Pine Heath
Pine Heath is a whole-house renovation, retrofit and refurbishment that combines a significant improvement in energy performance with a carefully considered transformation of the interior to suit a growing family.
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LKR Innovation House – a 1990s timber warehouse transformed
A former timber warehouse, located in Østbirk, Denmark, has been reimagined and transformed into a vibrant innovation hub - a new workspace for Velux employees.
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Hiltingbury School – a model for industrialised retrofit
This pilot retrofit at Hiltingbury Junior School serves as proof of concept that outdated schools can be retrofitted using low-carbon materials (including homegrown timber) to substantially upgrade their performance.
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Croydon Smile Hub – a reassembled CLT pavilion
A fantastic example of timber reuse, this project proves that a whole CLT building can be unproblematically disassembled, transported and reassembled elsewhere to fulfill a useful - and entirely different - new purpose.
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Building from England’s Woodlands
A pioneering research initiative has demonstrated that England’s underutilised deciduous broadleaf forests could play a transformative role in delivering low-carbon buildings, supporting biodiversity, and strengthening domestic supply chains.
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Timber Frame – Digital Guide
The Commercial Timber Guidebook has been developed to address the common concerns that face timber construction. These typically include durability, moisture, fire safety, and as a result, the challenge of obtaining sustainable property insurance. These issues are compounded by a lack of comprehensive guidance specific to mass timber construction.
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Alder Hey hospital
The Alder Hey Childrens Hospital uses a hybrid mass timber/steel approach to integrate two connected buildings, with a range of facilities that were previously scattered across the hospital site and the city of Liverpool.
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Urban Nature Project
Using locally sourced, low impact materials, the Urban Nature Project is an exemplar of low embodied carbon construction that supports local supply chains and vernacular craft.
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Old Newton Primary
A neat, economical and sympathetic solution to a school's need for another classroom, Natural Building Systems proved that timber is the perfect material for a speedy, programme-friendly small project that can stand the test of time.
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New Wave House
This adaptive reuse scheme in northwest London adds a vertical extension and refurbishes an existing two-storey industrial building with a demountable Douglas fir glulam structure – providing a new headquarters for client and specialist contractor New Wave London.
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