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Mass Timber Construction Podcast

277 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating

Mass Timber Construction is sweeping the planet. In a world first, the podcast brings to you the latest mass timber construction news from around the globe each week. Special guest episodes with members of the global AEC community are frequently. Sit back, relax and enjoy some refreshing content.

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Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2021 - Week Twentynine

July 25, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 5.51 MB

In this weeks updater, the Forest Green Rovers in western England plans to build the world’s first modern football stadium, almost entirely using wood, one of the oldest materials in construction. The elementary school provides an ideal educational facility for modern pedagogic approaches. It is an uncompromising example of cluster design offering a flexible and nurturing learning environment. Australian Fire Ratings Whitepaper: Download this whitepaper to learn how a thorough understanding ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Kevin Hill - Singapore Mass Engineered Timber and the DNA of Timber Chain of Custody

July 21, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

In this very special guest episode, I speak with Kevin Hill the founder of Venturer. Kevin has completed over 100 construction projects in markets all over the globe using sustainably sourced timber from forests on every continent.  From humble beginnings building a heavy timber frame at  the Singapore Botanic Garden, to the challenge of completing the world-famous deck at Marina Bay Sand's Skypark,  Venturer continues to grow from a traditional timber framer and modular decking specialist i...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Kevin Hill - Singapore Mass Engineered Timber and the DNA of Timber Chain of Custody

July 21, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

In this very special guest episode, I speak with Kevin Hill the founder of Venturer. Kevin has completed over 100 construction projects in markets all over the globe using sustainably sourced timber from forests on every continent.  From humble beginnings building a heavy timber frame at  the Singapore Botanic Garden, to the challenge of completing the world-famous deck at Marina Bay Sand's Skypark,  Venturer continues to grow from a traditional timber framer and modular decking specialist i...

Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2021 - Week Twentyeight

July 18, 2021 22:00 - 5 minutes - 3.8 MB

In news this week episode, Södra’s second production facility for cross-laminated timber is scheduled for completion by mid-2022. The facility will be able to deliver framing materials for 4,000 homes per year, which is ten times the current output of Södra’s existing facility at Värö. Three engineered timber office towers worth $173 million have been approved for a site in Sydney’s Lower North Shore. The eight, 12- and 18-storey towers proposed by Arrow Capital Partners and designed by Fitz...

Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2021 - Week Twentyseven

July 12, 2021 02:00 - 5 minutes - 3.46 MB

In this weeks episode, SmartLam North America is growing. Stephen Tolnai and Derek Ratchford are changing the future of SmartLam. The Catalonia region in Spain is one of the most forested areas in Europe with about 60% of its surface being tree-covered, a surprising fact is that it has more woods than Switzerland. A pioneering investment has recently been initiated by Mosser Leimholz GmbH and the order for a complete cross-laminated timber production line was placed with Ledinek.  Sponsor Wa...

Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2021 - Week Twentysix

July 05, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.18 MB

Happy Fourth of July to all our United States listeners. In the podcast this week. Sweden's largest wooden parking garage. Will there be room for just over 600 cars (18,000m2). The parking garage has high sustainability ambitions and a role model for future projects. As part of westbank’s sweeping campus transformation of san jose, james k.m. cheng architects unveils its‘orchard’ residences. Together with the residential project, the ‘orchard’ will span two distinct buildings including an ac...

Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2021 - Week Twentysix

July 05, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.18 MB

Happy Fourth of July to all our United States listeners. In the podcast this week. Sweden's largest wooden parking garage. Will there be room for just over 600 cars (18,000m2). The parking garage has high sustainability ambitions and a role model for future projects. As part of westbank’s sweeping campus transformation of san jose, james k.m. cheng architects unveils its‘orchard’ residences. Together with the residential project, the ‘orchard’ will span two distinct buildings including an ac...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Chris Skeels-Piggins - Hardwood Mass Timber Solutions

June 30, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

In this special guest episode I talk with CLTP Tasmania CEO Chris Skeels-Piggins about the launch of Cusp Building Solutions. Using CLTP's products, Cusp will operate essentially as the marketing branch of the organisation. To kick things off, they're highlighting their "world-first" hardwood Cross Laminated Timber for the structural timber market. Cusp hardwood CLT is made from Tasmanian Plantation Oak (Eucalyptus Nitens), sourced from certified sustainable plantations around the state. CLT...

Mass Timber Market Updates - June 2021 - Week Twentyfive

June 27, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

In this weeks mass timber construction update. The launch of the new $110m Auckland City Mission HQ being finished, tallest NZ wood building. Bates Smart’s 25 King Street Building, located in the Brisbane Showgrounds, has been named the Best Tall Building Under 100 Metres by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The honour, awarded at an international level, recognises the best tall buildings around the world. Glued laminated timber beams spanning 42 metres in length have ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - June 2021 - Week Twentyfive

June 27, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

In this weeks mass timber construction update. The launch of the new $110m Auckland City Mission HQ being finished, tallest NZ wood building. Bates Smart’s 25 King Street Building, located in the Brisbane Showgrounds, has been named the Best Tall Building Under 100 Metres by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The honour, awarded at an international level, recognises the best tall buildings around the world. Glued laminated timber beams spanning 42 metres in length have ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Jun 2021 - Week Twentyfour

June 21, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

In this week's update, the covers have now come down to reveal the true beauty of the design and construct by Gardner Vaughan Group using the elegant combination of black and gold on the exterior. A recent report produced by the federal government, The State of the Mass Timber Industry in Canada (SMTC) in 2021, displays through an interactive map close to 500 under construction or completed mass timber projects from 2007 to 2019 for a total of 16 million square feet. The heavy timber pieces ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Jun 2021 - Week Twentyfour

June 21, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

In this week's update, the covers have now come down to reveal the true beauty of the design and construct by Gardner Vaughan Group using the elegant combination of black and gold on the exterior. A recent report produced by the federal government, The State of the Mass Timber Industry in Canada (SMTC) in 2021, displays through an interactive map close to 500 under construction or completed mass timber projects from 2007 to 2019 for a total of 16 million square feet. The heavy timber pieces ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Simon Topliss - Mass Timber Transforming our University Sector

June 17, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MB

A globally-experienced, registered architect,  Simon Topliss is a Principal at  Warren and Mahoney Architects after 10 years at Jackson Clements Burrows (JCB), where he was an Associate Director for the last four years. Prior to JCB, the architect collaborated with Peter Elliot, following a long stint in London. In this special guest episode I discuss several notable projects in the university sector that have a significant and profound impact on the mass timber movement in Australia and New...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twentythree

June 10, 2021 13:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MB

In the weekly update, Construction startup Katerra has told employees it plans to shut down, people familiar with the matter said, marking the collapse of the SoftBank-backed company that had raised more than $2 billion to slash the cost of building apartments. Katerra is expected to let go of thousands of employees and is likely to walk away from dozens of construction projects it had agreed to build. Michael Green said, I was hopeful that Katerra could provide a path, though certainly not ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Clément Quineau - France's Sustainable Building

June 08, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

In this very special guest episode, I speak with Clément Quineau who is the Technical Affairs Manager at Union des Industriels et Constructeurs Bois (UICB). The UICB promotes wood material and other bio-based materials. The UICB contributes to the development of markets for wood construction, the training of employees and the attractiveness of trades in the sector. It provides technical, legal, economic and social support to its members, by monitoring regulations and standards. It represents...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Clément Quineau - France's Sustainable Building

June 08, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

In this very special guest episode, I speak with Clément Quineau who is the Technical Affairs Manager at Union des Industriels et Constructeurs Bois (UICB). The UICB promotes wood material and other bio-based materials. The UICB contributes to the development of markets for wood construction, the training of employees and the attractiveness of trades in the sector. It provides technical, legal, economic and social support to its members, by monitoring regulations and standards. It represents...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twentytwo

May 30, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.48 MB

In the weekly updater, the world's best timber construction video. Let us know what you think. For more by Tomorrow’s Build. The U of A Community Design Center, working in collaboration with the U of A Resiliency Center, has been awarded a 2021 Green Good Design Award for Green Research/Technology by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design.  Due to its specific characteristics, the architecture of the sau...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twentytwo

May 30, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.48 MB

In the weekly updater, the world's best timber construction video. Let us know what you think. For more by Tomorrow’s Build. The U of A Community Design Center, working in collaboration with the U of A Resiliency Center, has been awarded a 2021 Green Good Design Award for Green Research/Technology by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design.  Due to its specific characteristics, the architecture of the sau...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twentyone

May 23, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.54 MB

In this weeks mass timber construction updater, I talk about welded wood, where researchers from TMI Ltd and the University of Cambridge's Construction Innovation Lab developed "a sustainable process to rapidly join timber elements using linear friction welding." Margulies Perruzzi, one of New England's most innovative architectural and interior design firms, announced today that it has completed renovations and a two-story addition at 69 A Street in South Boston. The new Atlassian HQ in Syd...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twentyone

May 23, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.54 MB

In this weeks mass timber construction updater, I talk about welded wood, where researchers from TMI Ltd and the University of Cambridge's Construction Innovation Lab developed "a sustainable process to rapidly join timber elements using linear friction welding." Margulies Perruzzi, one of New England's most innovative architectural and interior design firms, announced today that it has completed renovations and a two-story addition at 69 A Street in South Boston. The new Atlassian HQ in Syd...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twenty

May 16, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.52 MB

In this episode, Seattle-based Green Canopy says it's developing the city's first mass timber modular townhouse project. France’s first foldable house is under construction and will take less than two weeks to complete from start to finish. The timber industry is calling for embodied carbon to be regulated in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) recent inquiry into the sustainability of the built environment. Estonian design and engineering firm Kodasema is getting traction ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - May 2021 - Week Twenty

May 16, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.52 MB

In this episode, Seattle-based Green Canopy says it's developing the city's first mass timber modular townhouse project. France’s first foldable house is under construction and will take less than two weeks to complete from start to finish. The timber industry is calling for embodied carbon to be regulated in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) recent inquiry into the sustainability of the built environment. Estonian design and engineering firm Kodasema is getting traction ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Rensteph Thompson - Free-form GLT

May 12, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MB

In this episode I speak with Rensteph Thompson from Hess Timber. As a project specialist in the field of timber engineering, based in Kleinheubach Germany, has specialised in the development and execution of architecturally challenging projects and can refer to outstanding projects worldwide such as the Museum Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the free-formed foyer of Bunjil Place in Casey, Australia, or the wooden sphere Steinberg in Germany, which with a diameter of 50 metres, is the larg...

Mass Timber Market Update - May 2021 - Week Nineteen

May 09, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.64 MB

In this episode, Happy Mother's Day! I hope you had a fantastic day. Homag Group further expands its activities in the solid wood sector with the acquisition of a majority interest in the Danish mechanical engineering company Kallesoe Machinery A/S. Homag is acquiring a good 70% of the shares in Kallesoe Machinery A/S from the Christensen family, with the residual approximately 30% remaining with the Kallesoe family. The purchase price is in the low double-digit million-Euro range. A new ima...

Mass Timber Market Update - May 2021 - Week Nineteen

May 09, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.64 MB

In this episode, Happy Mother's Day! I hope you had a fantastic day. Homag Group further expands its activities in the solid wood sector with the acquisition of a majority interest in the Danish mechanical engineering company Kallesoe Machinery A/S. Homag is acquiring a good 70% of the shares in Kallesoe Machinery A/S from the Christensen family, with the residual approximately 30% remaining with the Kallesoe family. The purchase price is in the low double-digit million-Euro range. A new ima...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Apr 2021 - Week Eighteen

May 02, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.84 MB

In mass timber construction news from around the world this week, Niko Fuss posted on the CLT Swimming Pool! An amazing invention, not sure if it was by luck, or misfortune! Australia's tallest engineered timber office building in #Australia, 25 King has scooped up the UDIA National award for #Environmental Excellence. BC Housing is looking to mass timber as a potential way of cutting greenhouse gas emissions when building affordable housing.  Build back better” - that was the exhortation fr...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Apr 2021 - Week Eighteen

May 02, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.84 MB

In mass timber construction news from around the world this week, Niko Fuss posted on the CLT Swimming Pool! An amazing invention, not sure if it was by luck, or misfortune! Australia's tallest engineered timber office building in #Australia, 25 King has scooped up the UDIA National award for #Environmental Excellence. BC Housing is looking to mass timber as a potential way of cutting greenhouse gas emissions when building affordable housing.  Build back better” - that was the exhortation fr...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Salla (Palos) Eckhardt - Microsoft

April 29, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MB

Salla (Palos) Eckhardt is the Director of Transformation Services with Microsoft, serving as the chair of the US National BIM Program Steering Committee and has a wealth of knowledge about BIM and the digital integration into the construction process. In this episode of the podcast Salla and I talk about the digital overlay for mass timber construction and the efficiencies that can be gained. We talk about digital twins, lifecycle analysis and the purpose of driving a digital agenda for the ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Apr 2021 - Week Seventeen

April 25, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.52 MB

In this week's mass timber construction news updater, a 50m-tall building made entirely of wood is capturing international attention for its innovative design and green credentials—and construction hasn't yet begun. SAWA will be Rotterdam’s first timber tower and is being touted as the Netherlands’ “healthiest building”.  April 22nd is Earth Day, an annual event that promotes environmental awareness throughout the world.  France’s wood sector has welcomed the government’s move to update a st...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Apr 2021 - Week Seventeen

April 25, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.52 MB

In this week's mass timber construction news updater, a 50m-tall building made entirely of wood is capturing international attention for its innovative design and green credentials—and construction hasn't yet begun. SAWA will be Rotterdam’s first timber tower and is being touted as the Netherlands’ “healthiest building”.  April 22nd is Earth Day, an annual event that promotes environmental awareness throughout the world.  France’s wood sector has welcomed the government’s move to update a st...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Jennifer Cover - WoodWorks

April 21, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

In this episode I speak with Jennifer Cover of WoodWorks. WoodWorks provides education and free technical support related to the design, engineering and construction of commercial and multi-family wood buildings in the U.S. A non-profit staffed with architects, structural engineers and construction experts, we have the expertise to assist with all aspects of wood building design, including: allowable heights and areas/construction types, structural detailing of wood and hybrid systems, fire ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Jennifer Cover - WoodWorks

April 21, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

In this episode I speak with Jennifer Cover of WoodWorks. WoodWorks provides education and free technical support related to the design, engineering and construction of commercial and multi-family wood buildings in the U.S. A non-profit staffed with architects, structural engineers and construction experts, we have the expertise to assist with all aspects of wood building design, including: allowable heights and areas/construction types, structural detailing of wood and hybrid systems, fire ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - April 2021 - Week Sixteen

April 18, 2021 05:00 - 7 minutes - 5.51 MB

In this episode, Element5, Ontario’s first and only Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) manufacturer, announces that their new factory in St. Thomas, Canada achieved certification. 123 East 6th Ave. in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, will be 10 storeys and 196,000 square feet. Construction is expected to begin in 2022 and be completed in 2024. Located at 123 East 6th Avenue, T3 Mount Pleasant will be a new mass-timber, transit-connected, technology and amenity-rich, mixed-use office build...

Mass Timber Market Updates - April 2021 - Week Fifteen

April 11, 2021 03:00 - 7 minutes - 5.51 MB

In news this week, 28 Walker Development is currently working on 40TEN, Baltimore’s first heavy timber office . Feds contribute $800,000 to new KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence using state-of-the-art floor and tall wall wood-based systems to accommodate the large spacing between columns. Red Stag officially open their factory. The factory will produce cross laminated timber. Swinerton, aka Timber Lab was awarded the $30-million Palm Springs Airport Ticketing Hall Renovation and Baggage Han...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Kai Strehlke - Curved Mass Timber

April 07, 2021 22:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

Kai Strehlke joined Lehmann Timber Code AG in 2015 where he began working on the interface between digital data and CNC manufacturing of large scale timber structures. In 2019 Kai presented a timber sculpture in the municipality of Urbach,  the 14-metre-high Urbach Tower whose timber panels took on their striking form themselves. Kai was also instrumental in working on the Swatch headquarters in Biel. The building was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. With the aid of parametric...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Kai Strehlke - Curved Mass Timber

April 07, 2021 22:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

Kai Strehlke joined Lehmann Timber Code AG in 2015 where he began working on the interface between digital data and CNC manufacturing of large scale timber structures. In 2019 Kai presented a timber sculpture in the municipality of Urbach,  the 14-metre-high Urbach Tower whose timber panels took on their striking form themselves. Kai was also instrumental in working on the Swatch headquarters in Biel. The building was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. With the aid of parametric...

Mass Timber Market Updates - April 2021 - Week Fourteen

April 04, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

Hoppy Easter to everybody, in this weekly update I wish you all a wonderful Easter break. In news around the world, Rotterdam-based architecture office Powerhouse Company has unveiled designs for a 12-story project will feature 11 stories built of cross-laminated timber without the use of adhesives to allow the building to be demounted and reassembled . SRG Partnership recently completed its own office in Portland, Oregon. A LEED Platinum project translates into an active design environment ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - April 2021 - Week Fourteen

April 04, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

Hoppy Easter to everybody, in this weekly update I wish you all a wonderful Easter break. In news around the world, Rotterdam-based architecture office Powerhouse Company has unveiled designs for a 12-story project will feature 11 stories built of cross-laminated timber without the use of adhesives to allow the building to be demounted and reassembled . SRG Partnership recently completed its own office in Portland, Oregon. A LEED Platinum project translates into an active design environment ...

Mass Timber Market Updates -March 2021 - Week Thirteen

March 28, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

In this weeks wrap-up, Prescot's stunning new Shakespeare theatre will have capacity for between 320 and 472 seats and is based on the iconic 17 th century ‘cockpit-in-court’ design. Moscow, Idaho, the University of Idaho, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains’ Bitterroot Range, all number of mass timber elements have been marshaled into the free-form structure Southwark station was designed by Sir Richard MacCormac as part of the Jubilee line extension. The new development comprises a com...

Mass Timber Market Updates -March 2021 - Week Thirteen

March 28, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MB

In this weeks wrap-up, Prescot's stunning new Shakespeare theatre will have capacity for between 320 and 472 seats and is based on the iconic 17 th century ‘cockpit-in-court’ design. Moscow, Idaho, the University of Idaho, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains’ Bitterroot Range, all number of mass timber elements have been marshaled into the free-form structure Southwark station was designed by Sir Richard MacCormac as part of the Jubilee line extension. The new development comprises a com...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Sarah Smith - KATERRA

March 25, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

KATERRA has an ambitious goal to transform the way we build. KATERRA's mass timber facility is a significant part of the transformation, yet over the last few years a transformation has occurred. Now KATERRA enters a new phase of working with industry in a different way and standing with partners to support a true collaboration and assist others to drive a better way to build.  In this episode I speak with Sarah Smith who has the fantastic job of making mass timber mainstream across the US....

Mass Timber Market Updates - Mar 2021 - Week Twelve

March 21, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MB

Happy International Day of Forests, yes March 21st is the UN proclaimed International Day of Forests. The International Mass Timber Conference is just around the corner and it's time to get your tickets. The American Trucking Association is to lease Washington DC's first mass timber building. Google announce $1b commitment to the first mass timber projects at Sunnyvale, citing that the restart of construction in a post-COVID world as one of the primary drivers. We talk about an update on the...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Mar 2021 - Week Twelve

March 21, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MB

Happy International Day of Forests, yes March 21st is the UN proclaimed International Day of Forests. The International Mass Timber Conference is just around the corner and it's time to get your tickets. The American Trucking Association is to lease Washington DC's first mass timber building. Google announce $1b commitment to the first mass timber projects at Sunnyvale, citing that the restart of construction in a post-COVID world as one of the primary drivers. We talk about an update on the...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Amy Heilig - Dlubal Software

March 17, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MB

In this episode I talk with Amy Heilig from Dlubal. For more than 30 years, the German-Czech company Dlubal Software has developed engineering programs for FEA, structural analysis, and design. More than 10,000 companies and 86,000 satisfied users in 95 countries use the Dlubal Software programs every day.  We talk about the progression of mass timber within the RFEM software and get a real sense of the role BIM plays in integration between file types, the advances in codes and how to const...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Mar 2021 - Week Eleven

March 14, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MB

In this weeks update, Russia opens its first CLT plant to produce 50,000m3 p.a., whilst Stora Enso Wood Products has launched its new digital hub: the Wood House Effect. New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) announces that Professor Robert Hairstans has joined as Founding Director of its Centre for Advanced Timber Technology (CATT). Michael Green Architecture has just completed two buildings for the College of Forestry at Oregon State University; the new George W. Peavy ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guests - Marcus Saunders and Jake Concannon - Global Mass Timber Insurance

March 10, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Insurance is such an important part of any construction project; from building phase through to completion insurance provides a level of comfort in the protection of an asset. In this episode we talk with Marcus Saunders and Jake Concannon  from Gallagher a global insurance broker who are creating awareness and education about mass timber through the insurance sector.  Gallagher is a full-service insurance broker and risk management advisor working together with businesses of all shapes and ...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guests - Marcus Saunders and Jake Concannon - Global Mass Timber Insurance

March 10, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Insurance is such an important part of any construction project; from building phase through to completion insurance provides a level of comfort in the protection of an asset. In this episode we talk with Marcus Saunders and Jake Concannon  from Gallagher a global insurance broker who are creating awareness and education about mass timber through the insurance sector.  Gallagher is a full-service insurance broker and risk management advisor working together with businesses of all shapes and ...

Mass Timber Market Updates - Mar 2021 - Week Ten

March 07, 2021 03:00 - 10 minutes - 7.23 MB

In this weeks Mass Timber Construction news, we look at the recently released report on five compartment fire testing scenarios you can find out more here www.ri.se.  In other news, Tokyo is set to receive a tall mass timber building the construction company Takenaka Corporation have obtained approval to erect a 70-meter-high wooden building in the Japanese capital. The new head office for Vancouver structural engineering firm, Fast + Epp, is being recognised by the Canadian Wood Council for...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Sam Rowe - Hundegger Australiasia

March 03, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

They are one of the largest timber processing equipment providers in the world,  and Sam Rowe talks with me about the future of Hundegger equipment and series of 'Industry' machines. We also discuss the future of digital fabrication and the way Hundegger are positioning themselves to play a bigger role in the sense of 'digital fabrication'. Sam also provides some grapevine news outlining some important news, he told me not to tell you so have a listen and hear what he had to say.  Please en...

Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Sam Rowe - Hundegger Australiasia

March 03, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

They are one of the largest timber processing equipment providers in the world,  and Sam Rowe talks with me about the future of Hundegger equipment and series of 'Industry' machines. We also discuss the future of digital fabrication and the way Hundegger are positioning themselves to play a bigger role in the sense of 'digital fabrication'. Sam also provides some grapevine news outlining some important news, he told me not to tell you so have a listen and hear what he had to say.  Please en...