Mass Timber Market Updates - October 2023 - Week Thirtynine

Are you ready to discover the world of mass timber construction through the eyes of an expert? Join me, your host Paul Kremer, as we journey from Nebraska to New York, then onwards to Alabama, Australia, and the UK, unpacking remarkable projects and innovations in the world of mass timber construction. We start with a rare mass timber construction project for museums - the Mona expansion in Nebraska. We'll also explore the use of CLT panels and woven bamboo in creating a sacred space in New York City’s design pavilion event.

In this episode, we also bring you updates from SmartLam's brand new GLT production facility in Alabama, as the first batch of state-of-the-art equipment arrives. We then jet off to Australia to cover architect James Fitzpatrick’s Seed House, a unique mass timber home that’s up for sale. Finally, we head over to the UK, where Mace has been appointed as the main contractor for Landsec’s Timber Square redevelopment. Tune in to learn more about these sustainable building materials, techniques, and the latest happenings in the mass timber construction world with me, Paul Kremer.

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Podcast in the world, the pastTimber construction podcast, and
now here's what's right aroundyour house.

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Good morning, good afternoon,good evening.
Where are you in the worldtoday?
Welcome to the mass Timberconstruction podcast.
My name's Paul Kramer, yourhost.
I look forward to bringing youall the news from around the
world in mass Timberconstruction land each week.
Thank you, bruce Buffer, forthe introduction and I hope that
you are having a great week.
Make sure you hit subscribebutton so you never miss an

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And if you are an academic andyou're looking for some way to
put your mass Timberconstruction focus to research
paper, please consider the massTimber construction journal.
Let's have a look at what'smaking news around the world
this week in mass Timberconstruction land and to
Nebraska, in North America.
And the Mona topping offceremony signifies the progress

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on the 23,000 square footexpansion center for the Museum
of Nebraska Art in Kearney,celebrating another two steps in
the two and a half yearexpansion and renovation project
with the signature covered beamof cruise.
Finished work on the massTimber frame and the 20,000
square foot project.
And the mass Timberconstruction is a rarity for

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museums, according to John Mass,who's the project manager, and
it means the majority of thestructure, including most
columns and beams and all floorstructure, is made of timber,
which has sustainability andaesthetic benefits.
If you'd like to see moreimages on this particular
project, on the Mona project,including a video that shows the

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topping off ceremony, pleasehead to our mass Timber
construction journal LinkedInfeed, and Dazeencom is reporting
on a sacred space made from CLTpanels, a cloud canopy made
from strips of woven bamboo.
Among the pavilions being shownin New York City's design
pavilion event, created by theShanghai based studio II Lab and

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designed by Michael Bennett ofStudio Kerr, the two pavilion
displays sustainable buildingmaterials and techniques.
The structures are on show inthe design pavilion by an event
by NYC X Design, part of theprogramming for the city's
yearly architecture festivalcalled October.
If you'd like to see these twoamazing pavilions, please head

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to our LinkedIn feed or head toDazeencom and do a search for
New York Design Festival andyou'll be able to see these
impressive images and, in bignews coming out of Leiden Neck,
the initial shipments containingthe state of the art equipment
for SmartLam's brand new GLTproduction facility have left
its manufacturing site.

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This new arrival of machinerymarks the next bit in SmartLam's
Alabama plant, which isprojected to span the next five
months as a project.
The fully automated plant,which will be designed,
fabricating and installing,commissioned by Leiden Neck,
including staff training,comprises an array of cutting
edge machines.

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Notably, these include highspeed continuous finger joining
system called a Conta Zinc andthe groundbreaking edge glue
process called the Z-Press andis the swiftest process pressing
solution for glu-lam production.
The RotoPress will be anamazing addition to the new
equipment at SmartLam.
Congratulations to the team.

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We look forward to seeing whatthe production capacity is and
what the product looks likecoming out of your plant.
Back to New York City and theNew York City Economic
Development Corporation haslaunched a technical assistance
initiative to support masstimber projects in early phases
of planning and design, with thegoal of subverting on
development.
In the novel medium in theconcrete and steel city Called

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the New York City Mass TimberStudio will be operating by the
NYC EDC and the Mayor's Officefor Climate, environmental
Justice in collaboration withother partners.
If you'd like to find out more,you can go to our Mass Timber
Construction Journal linked infeed.
And if you don't know who JamesFitzpatrick is, then you
probably don't live in Australia, but he built an amazing house.

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It was one of the first housesto be built out of product
produced by Exlam in New Zealandand delivered in Australia,
called the Seed House.
This amazing building has thesejutting boxes coming out of the
side of the hill on anovercroft, hanging out over the
bushland in Sydney looking intothe Bay Area.

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The house is now up for sale.
If you'd like to go and seeimpressive images, go to
domaincomau under the ArchitectsDream Home in Bushland.
Oasis is just 15 minutes fromthe city, is the name of the
article or head to our MassTimber Construction Journal
linked in feed, and you can seesome impressive, very purpose
built, aesthetically pleasingproduct made for Mass Timber for

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an upscale, high end markethome.
And in other news, mace, theGlobal Consultancy Construction
Company, has been appointed asthe main contractor for land sex
Timber Square redevelopment inLavington Street in Southwark in
the UK.
The announcement confirms landsex commitment to delivering the

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project in full and will willprogress land sex ambition to
deliver 1 million square feet ofgreen office costars in
Southwark the redevelopment ofthe former print works will be
the largest scale project landsex is carrying out in Southwark
Following the recent deliveryof the forge, the UK's first net
zero commercial buildingdesigned by the UK GBCs

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framework, which was completedby MACE and its joint venture
partner, sir Robert McAlpin.
And so that's it, folks.
That's all we've got time forthis week in Mass Timber
Construction Land.
I hope that you have an amazingweek moving forward.
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