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U.S. Tall wood Building Prize Competition

27/9/2014

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The United States Department of Agriculture has put up $1 million to launch a competition for U.S. tall wood construction projects. The projects are supported by President Obama's Climate Action Plan which uses productive forests to help mitigate climate change. The Binational Softwood Council has contributed another $1 million towards the competition resulting in $2 million up for grabs in pursuit of tall wood buildings in the United States. 
More can be found programs website here:

https://tallwoodbuildingcompetition.org/
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All U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition inquiries can be directed by email to:

Oscar Faoro
Project Manager
U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition
OscarFaoro@tallwoodbuildingcompetition.org
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ProjectManager@tallwoodbuildingcompetition.org

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100 7ups Challenge

17/9/2014

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Image: MGA Case for Tall Wood
Robert Malcyzk of Equilibrium Consulting has made a daring proposal to the global timber engineering community during his opening keynote speech at the WCTE forum in Quebec. The challenge pushes the global timber engineering community to construct and design 100 buildings of 7 or more stories before the 2016 WCTE in Wien (Vienna). Wood Skyscrapers is currently aware of 19 tentative projects towards this goal, but that still leaves plenty more structures to be developed. It will be interesting to see the outcome of these projects with many questions to be full-filled. 

Who will be producing the majority of theses structures?
What form will they take structurally?
Will  new architectural styles, reflective of the material, be developed? 
Which countries will accumulate the most structures?
Will new hybrid technologies play a significant role? 
Will any of the projects start breaking height barriers? 

Wood Skyscrapers is excited to follow the development of these projects and looks forward to a variety of creative solutions. 

-NS
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Treet, Set to break tall timber records

8/9/2014

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Treet, of Bergen Norway set to rise 45m

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A project that has been rumoured as early as 2008 is now under construction in Bergen, Norway. The tall timber building is 14 stories tall and set have a total height of 45m. The project uses a unique approach in tall projects with an outrigger truss system used as the primary load bearing system. Basically this systems takes a bridge truss and rotates it 90˚. This combination of glulam trusses with pre-modulated building compartments is unique in this enterprising combination. This has also allowed the implementation of innovative weather protection systems for the unique timber based residential tower. 

The project group consists of the following primary firms:
Artec – architecture
Sweco – engineering
Moelven – glulam and CLT structures 
Kodumaja – building modules 

Images: CTBUH Global News

-NS


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