CLT

Green House by Hayhurst & Co Architects
Green House
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Set on a backland plot in the Clyde Circus Conservation Area in Tottenham, Hayhurst & Co’s design for Green House draws on the natural history and verdant character of its location.
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Architype timber
A practice that puts sustainability at the heart of everything
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Designing buildings that work for people and planet - that is Architype's ethos. This pioneering architecture practice - and TDUK member - has always championed sustainability. From its early days of self-build houses in the 1990s to its major Passivhaus projects today, Architype has thought long and hard about the...
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old factory
A new life for an old factory
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How a lightweight timber frame and engineering know-how turned the Gramophone Works into the building it was always meant to be. In its long and varied history, it has been the headquarters of Sanderson Fabrics and British independent record label Saga Records. Today, The Gramophone Works is a landmark commercial...
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Chobham from Edward Williams © Agnese Sanvito housing
How do you turn an infill car park into beautiful housing?
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Edward Williams Architects’ first CLT project has transformed an underused car park into a welcoming mews-style development. Directors Laura Carrara-Cagni and Edward Williams explain how they went about it. A stylish landscaped housing scheme now sits on what was once a World War II bomb site. This is Stratford Courtyard...
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Moisture CLT
Moisture-proof CLT construction without a full temporary shelter
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The publication Moisture-proof CLT construction without a full temporary shelter provides guidance on how to handle CLT elements when building without a full shelter. It is intended to help project planners and builders achieve an industrial and dampproof CLT build.
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what is clt
CLT Handbook
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The CLT Handbook is to help structural engineers and architects to design structures using cross-laminated timber (CLT).
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ABBA Arena - Front of House and Rainscreen - Copyright Dirk Lidner, via Wood Awards
Gimme Gimme Gimme glulam after midnight! Find out all about the ABBA Arena
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Timber has played a fundamental role in building the ABBA Arena - the venue purpose-built for the Swedish supergroup’s spectacular comeback concert. The ABBA Arena, a demountable 3,000 capacity venue designed by Stufish Entertainment Architects, will be home to ABBA’s digital comeback concert until May 2023. While the ‘avatar’ technology...
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Panel Guide gives the user and specifier guidance and information on wood-based panels. It covers main types of wood-based panel
Panel Guide Full Book
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PanelGuide gives the panel user and specifier guidance and information on the use of wood-based panels in an authoritative and comprehensive manner. It covers all the main types of wood-based panel: - Plywood (including blockboard and laminboard) - Particleboard (chipboard, flaxboard, cement-bonded particleboard) - Oriented strand board (OSB) - Fibreboard...
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Black and white building
The structural secrets behind London’s tallest timber office building
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The Black & White Building is London’s tallest engineered-timber office building. It contains no concrete above the ground floor slab. Its frame uses timber to provide all the strength and adaptability of steel. Standing 17.8m tall, the 6-storey Black & White Building is an ingenious example of timber construction. It...
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Cross-laminated timber: structural principles
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Learn the different structural principles that cross-laminated timber (CLT) has and the way to assembly it, while understanding its benefits on multi-storey buildings.
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