CLT Handbook
The CLT Handbook is to help structural engineers and architects to design structures using cross-laminated timber (CLT).
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Gimme Gimme Gimme glulam after midnight! Find out all about the ABBA Arena
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 Full Book
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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The structural secrets behind London’s tallest timber office building
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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Dune House
In 2010 the writer Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness, introduced Living Architecture, a not-for-profit holiday rental company.
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