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SOM’s Benton Johnson on Testing a New Composite System for Tall Timber
In this interview, Wanda Lau, the senior editor of tech, practice, and products for ARCHITECT and Architectural Lighting interviews SOM’s Benton Johnson on Testing a New Composite System for Tall Timber.
SOM's proposed Concrete Jointed Timber Frame structural system recently underwent a series of physical load tests with successful results. The system uses mass timber for structural elements and concrete for connections. As an alternative to other mass-timber construction systems, the firm believes that it can reduce the reduce the embodied energy of a comparable tower with a reinforced-concrete frame by 60 to 75 percent.
Image: the composite system components - courtesy SOM
Read the SOM press release here
Read the full interview with Benton Johnson in Architect Magazine here