Fire performance

Key Features:

• Timbercrete blocks are handmade in Rotorua and are constructed with over 50% of timber shavings, sourced from local mills and combined with aggregate and concrete.
• The thermal factor of this timber component is high and warm to the touch inside the home and has an extremely high acoustic performance.
• Radiata pine was used extensively for all beams, rafters, balustrades, shelving and the main elements were pre-stained prior to installation.
• Shadowclad T&G sheets were used for the sarked ceilings and panels to the walls.
• The Cedar garage doors
• Eucalyptus Main Entry door
• Shadowclad to disguise the external beams

• Site 7 is a striking new 'green' office building constructed on Wellington's waterfront, and tenanted by Meridian Energy as their flagship headquarters. 
• A dramatic design, it nestles into its harbour location, cantilevering over the water's edge yet still respectful of its heritage neighbours. 
• The building has been designed throughout to achieve the highest possible reduction of energy use and water consumption and is the first constructed building to receive a 5-star GreenStar rating from the New Zealand Green Building Council. 
• It contains many aspects of innovative timer use in its design and construction.

• 9 storey residential building.
• 9 weeks to construct.
• The top 8 floors use Austrian Spruce Cross Laminated Solid Timber as the only structural material.
• Panels were pre-cut, decreasing construction time.
• All utilities and services were easily installed, the panels having grooves and channels for these purposes. 

Key Features:

• Aurecon Stuctural Engineers "rocking-wall" design absorbs seismic energy, minimising damage during an earthquake
• Locally grown and manufactured structural timber products were used
• NelsonPine LVL is the main structural material
• Irving Smith Jack Architects have designed the building to feature the timber elements when completed

• Height constraints and a contractor familiar with lightweight construction led to a timber-framed option being developed for these inner-city apartments.
• A reinforced concrete car park was formed on the ground level, with a six-level timber-framed superstructure sitting above.
• Most apartments are studios, with relatively small proportions, meaning bracing lines were available at 4 m centres in each direction.
• Grade F8 timber studs are used, with plywood nail fixed over them.
• Floors consist of 19 mm plywood fixed over timber I-section joists.
• This apartment block demonstrates that multi-storey buildings can be built successfully from timber.

Key Features:

• Pine Glulam Portal Frame - Main structure. Cost effective and sustainable structure that related well to a site surrounded by trees.
• Roughsawn Pine Reverse Board & Batten Cladding – Main cladding. Cost effective cladding that provides a wonderful texture.
• Roughsawn Pine Plywood Exterior Cladding. Excellent contrast to the board and batten cladding.
• Pine Strandboard – Internal panel wall linings, floors and some ceilings. Extremely cost effective and durable. It has a wonderful colour and warmth
• Pine EO MDF – Fast and cost effective internal panel lining used for contrasting painted surfaces, it almost eliminated with the strandboard the need for wet trades.
• Recycled Matai Floorboard - Reception Counter. Beautiful feature timber that would have grown locally. Enhanced colouration of timber due to age. Sustainable use of native timber.
• Prenailed Radiata Pine Framing – Used in walls roof structure of admin block. Cost and thermally effective. A better choice when using timber linings.
• Pine Plywood Bracing/Rigid Air Barrier. Provides both barrier and bracing in the one element. Helps ensure that the building is very air tight.

Key Features:

• 11 shear walls are installed in the auditorium.
• Each LVL wall (6.7m high x 2.4m) contains approximately 22 sheets of LVL (3m x 1.2m x45mm) which equates to a total 231 sheets
• Shear walls are made of four layers of 45mm LVL sheets, glue-laminated together to form a 180mm thick wall.
• Auditorium trusses contain approximately 3.5km of specially cut LVL
• Bracing and wall linings - approximately 1,000 sheets of plywood (overall centre)
• Roof and wall structure framing - approximately 3km of JNL J-frame (overall centre)