Canadian architecture and multi-disciplinary practice, Dialog, has designed a hybrid mass timber tower prototype that promises to revolutionise tall buildings as we know them. The design is of a hybri...
As computing power increases, designers are able to create unprecedented structures with unlocked creativity and productivity. In this episode, we’re lucky to be speaking with David Benjamin, a Dire...
Exposed timber post and beam structures leverage the benefits of biophilic design and wellbeing. From a design point of view there are a number of challenges that need to overcome. Nanyong Technologic...
Exposed timber post and beam structures leverage the benefits of biophilic design and wellbeing. From a design point of view there are a number of challenges that need to overcome. Nanyong Technologic...
The property industry is crucial to Australia’s economy, accounting for 13% of GDP and employing 1.4 million people. It was impossible to predict a global pandemic that simultaneously created a heal...
To begin Season 4, we present a best of series for the first 4 weeks. In this, the third episode, we look at the best moments in Timber Talks so far, on the lessons learned from the case stu...
To begin Season 4, we’re doing a best of series for the first 4 weeks. Today, we're looking at the best moments in Timber Talks so far, on the topics of design. In this episode you’ll hear from:Je...
Collectively, we all had a year like no other in 2020. The challenges we faced were unprecedented but with them come new trends and new opportunities. After predictions of Armageddon, the residential ...
The Brock Commons building is an 18 Storey Post and Plate system built in the University of British Columbia Canada. The project was a major leap in timber construction productivity, achieving a floor...
Prefabrication is allowing us to build to a high quality with very tight construction tolerances, enabling the achievement of passiv-haus design principles. Passivhaus is reducing the operational ener...
