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Mar
29

BC to build the World’s Tallest Wood Building

Read the original News story from Vancouver Sun. Excerpt posted below for your convenience and discussion.

B.C. is moving ahead with plans to build what is expected to be the tallest wood  building in North America and possibly the world, Jobs [ More ]

Mar
27

Timber paves way for quake-safe country

EXPAN Media Release, March 26 2012

Two buildings soon to be constructed in Christchurch could lead the way for a seismically safer New Zealand.

 

The Garden City will soon be home to two commercial buildings built of EXPAN, a revolutionary [ More ]

Mar
27

House A / Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten

Read the original blog post from ArchDaily. Excerpt posted below for your convenience and discussion.

© Bruno Klomfar

Kehlegg is a hamlet just above Dornbirn, together with Ebnit and Watzenegg, it is an Alpine site among [ More ]

Mar
26

The Case for Tall Wood Buildings

How Mass Timber Offers a Safe, Economical, and Environmentally Friendly Alternative for Tall Building Structures

We are in a unique moment in architectural and building engineering history when shifting world needs has asked us to question some of the fundamentals of [ More ]

Mar
26

NZ Wood Sponsors University of Auckland Autumn Lecture Series Communiqué: 6 March-23 May 2012

The inclusion of a lively range of international and local speakers at School of Architecture and Planning’s lecture series Communiqué, at The University of Auckland, has been made possible through the generous funding of NZ Wood – the marketing arm [ More ]