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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. 

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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

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