Designing for Flexibility and Reuse with Reuseable Connections
Learn how timber installations can be designed to be flexible and reuseable well beyond their initial design life.
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The zero-emissions resource pool: construction materials compatible with a realistic view of delivering zero-emissions in the UK by 2050
This summary outlines research that provides a critical review of options to supply construction materials in the UK with realistic expectations about the availability of carbon storage, zero-emissions electricity and zero-emissions transport.
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Strategies for salvaging and repurposing timber elements from existing buildings in the UK
This summary outlines research which investigates strategies for salvaging and repurposing timber elements from existing buildings, by reusing or upcycling timber.
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InFutuReWood: use and reuse of wood building components
A promising use for secondary timber is in secondary engineered wood products (EWPs) like cross laminated secondary timber (CLST) or glue laminated secondary timber (GLST). These products offer enhanced structural performance, and also allow the combination of new timber and secondary timber to balance out potential uncertainty or lower mechanical...
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Whole-life embodied carbon in multistorey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures
According to this analysis, choosing engineered timber for structural frames in preference to concrete or steel is a straightforward way of reducing the whole life embodied carbon of the frame.
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