In order to achieve zero carbon goals, we need to measure both operational and embodied carbon impacts, for short and tall buildings. Different densities indeed pose different challenges. In this epis...
If you’ve never visited a sawmill, you’ll be surprised about how much happens behind the scenes in turning a log into a product. The timber supply chain has continually found new ways to improve t...
Recently, new products have come onto the market, enabling designers to change the way we build. Engineers now have new tools in the kit, which are going to be vital as we approach net zero.
Andrew...
Interview with Amy Marks
In construction, there is a plethora of disruptive technologies that can be used to change the way we design, model and build. New disruptive technologies means new opportu...
To begin Season 4, we’re doing a best-of series for the next 4 weeks. In this episode we’ll be looking at the best moments in Timber Talks, so far, on the topic of innovation.
To begin Season 4, we’re going to be doing a best of series for the next 4 weeks. Today, we’ll be looking at the best moments in Timber Talks so far, on the topics of sustainability and wellness. ...
Timber is becoming known as the building material of the 21st Century. It is strong – a high strength to weight ratio is recently being utilized with innovative developments; it is safe – being bo...
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...
